mnnh, i was just twenty seconds too late before i could post, i was busy elsewhere and questions take a while to think of and write... i know i should be doing these ahead of time instead in order to time my posts more accurately, but im normally quite tired and distracted and lazy x')
hopefully you will be able to enjoy capturing some points for yourself too :D
for bandu: what are some more jokes dave likes to make with y'all? are there any differences in the jokes he tells with you and ex versus jokes he might tell to bambi?
Tateshina Eve wrote:
Wow, Achro is already on 6000
mhmm, 5900 was the goal for the ninth day of this monthly cycle!
...but i was lucky to even wake up at the times i did, and those posts allowed me to exceed that goal with maybe fifty or so points to spare ^-^ it doesn't really mean i can relax though, my intended score will need more of the same scores at this pace and that can be difficult to maintain at times
idk if you're familiar with how this game has been played in the past few years in your absence, so i figure it might be interesting/useful if you know whats happening here in more explicit terms so you can decide what you want to do with this game... i am obviously a very obsessive player of the thread now, and i usually try to fight dirty but fairly-- basically, i take a very social approach and aim to play with whatever things i think will enable people to want to post after me, but at the same time i still actively try not to directly ask anyone to post for me specifically. this is a silent rule/guideline of the game, and breaking this rule makes it a more cruel and unfair game for the other non-coercive fair-and-square competitive players... although it could be said that the game already is unfair, particularly when it's already possible to use text to socialize with others and form an influential bond with them, but that's hard to avoid in a game that includes the freedom to type whatever forum-safe things you want to
...i have done it before, which was... an unfortunate unethical choice, either by treading that line multiple times with desperate "announcements" for available points (which was common in my first three years with the game) or by explicitly coordinating with someone (which was done for one brief instance according to my memory, but any amount of time is all it takes)... i dont do this anymore, and currently the people who post at convenient times seem to do so completely of their own free will without anything privately said between us, but it will still be pretty unfair for anyone else unless someone can successfully replace me in the social ecosystem
anyway, i then aim for a balance of maximum score output and overall offensive leaderboard control, with a mixture of well-informed highly-vigilant greed + slowly-changing and risk-averse but otherwise-adaptive time-pressure strategies <3
+ maximum score output... except usually i would filter it for aesthetic value, it's just that lately the monthly cutoff date changed and the leaderboard was frozen without updates for a month just prior to that, so i didnt get the scores i wanted. normally it is very very difficult to maintain the efficient greed necessary for high scores like mine but the past few months have been very very lucky periods of time and i have a lot to be thankful for ^-^
+ overall offensive leaderboard control... meaning that i have a modest amount of control over who is in which places on the leaderboard depending on how i want the game to play out and who i want to encourage or discourage, which also indirectly affects how the game shifts for me
i primarily focus on the first option now because most players are casual and infrequent and people usually are just trying to socialize and have fun (and i want them to be able to enjoy that freely instead of feeling pressured and therefore be turned away from the thread), but i do still attempt to exert some of my control on you and sametdze through the way i choose to time my posts on the basis of who is usually online and who posted most recently, while being informed by everyone's probable schedules and mindsets... "offensive leaderboard control" used to be more relevant when i was playing with westtle and making it as hard as possible for him to gain points while casually socializing at the same time :p
i've had a social monopoly as a result, but... i also should clarify that almost everything i say has been sincere, as far as i know... the interests i share are really things i spend time on and enjoy, the "qna" you've seen here is something i like to have fun with and i like to see how characters develop and understand what their lives are like, i enjoy the relationships characters have with each other and thinking of new ways to encourage new development at a comfortable pace. all those things are things i like doing, and so that's why i do them <3
it's a lot of effort, but that's compensated well by what may be the ultimate unfair advantage in my favor-- time itself, and just how little of a life i have outside the internet...
anyway!! if you do plan to play seriously, then i hope something interesting happens :>
idk if you're familiar with how this game has been played in the past few years in your absence, so i figure it might be interesting/useful if you know whats happening here in more explicit terms so you can decide what you want to do with this game... i am obviously a very obsessive player of the thread now, and i usually try to fight dirty but fairly-- basically, i take a very social approach and aim to play with whatever things i think will enable people to want to post after me, but at the same time i still actively try not to directly ask anyone to post for me specifically. this is a silent rule/guideline of the game, and breaking this rule makes it a more cruel and unfair game for the other non-coercive fair-and-square competitive players... although it could be said that the game already is unfair, particularly when it's already possible to use text to socialize with others and form an influential bond with them, but that's hard to avoid in a game that includes the freedom to type whatever forum-safe things you want to
...i have done it before, which was... an unfortunate unethical choice, either by treading that line multiple times with desperate "announcements" for available points (which was common in my first three years with the game) or by explicitly coordinating with someone (which was done for one brief instance according to my memory, but any amount of time is all it takes)... i dont do this anymore, and currently the people who post at convenient times seem to do so completely of their own free will without anything privately said between us, but it will still be pretty unfair for anyone else unless someone can successfully replace me in the social ecosystem
anyway, i then aim for a balance of maximum score output and overall offensive leaderboard control, with a mixture of well-informed highly-vigilant greed + slowly-changing and risk-averse but otherwise-adaptive time-pressure strategies <3
+ maximum score output... except usually i would filter it for aesthetic value, it's just that lately the monthly cutoff date changed and the leaderboard was frozen without updates for a month just prior to that, so i didnt get the scores i wanted. normally it is very very difficult to maintain the efficient greed necessary for high scores like mine but the past few months have been very very lucky periods of time and i have a lot to be thankful for ^-^
+ overall offensive leaderboard control... meaning that i have a modest amount of control over who is in which places on the leaderboard depending on how i want the game to play out and who i want to encourage or discourage, which also indirectly affects how the game shifts for me
i primarily focus on the first option now because most players are casual and infrequent and people usually are just trying to socialize and have fun (and i want them to be able to enjoy that freely instead of feeling pressured and therefore be turned away from the thread), but i do still attempt to exert some of my control on you and sametdze through the way i choose to time my posts on the basis of who is usually online and who posted most recently, while being informed by everyone's probable schedules and mindsets... "offensive leaderboard control" used to be more relevant when i was playing with westtle and making it as hard as possible for him to gain points while casually socializing at the same time :p
i've had a social monopoly as a result, but... i also should clarify that almost everything i say has been sincere, as far as i know... the interests i share are really things i spend time on and enjoy, the "qna" you've seen here is something i like to have fun with and i like to see how characters develop and understand what their lives are like, i enjoy the relationships characters have with each other and thinking of new ways to encourage new development at a comfortable pace. all those things are things i like doing, and so that's why i do them <3
it's a lot of effort, but that's compensated well by what may be the ultimate unfair advantage in my favor-- time itself, and just how little of a life i have outside the internet...
anyway!! if you do plan to play seriously, then i hope something interesting happens :>
hopefully you will be able to enjoy capturing some points for yourself too :D
for expunged: what is it like when mister cornwall invites you to play something with him? what kinds of things does he seem to like sharing with you as a way to gush about his own interests?lostsilver wrote:
expunged: "give me something sweet/playful about mr. cornwall!!"
bandu: "gimme something goofy about dave!!"
ps!dave: "give me something goofy about cresswell."
ps!bambi: "gimme somethin' silly 'bout ambrose."
ps!expunged: "give me something playful about ps!bandu."
ps!bandu: "gimme something sleepy/sweet about ps!ex!!"
for bandu: what are some more jokes dave likes to make with y'all? are there any differences in the jokes he tells with you and ex versus jokes he might tell to bambi?
