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Author Topic: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - FINALE: WINNER REVEALED  (Read 122823 times)

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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 3 SPOTS LEFT, STARTS WEDNESDAY
« Reply #50 on: September 30, 2015, 07:47:24 am »

I assume Dsell is too far on the co-mod side of things to play?

It's not crazy to think we could get the rest of the people today.

One thing that can help is if everybody sends a PM to someone telling them about FS3 and how awesome it is. If half of us do that, and half of those people join, then we have our numbers, right?

Are there frequent forum game players that have never played Forum Survivor? I'm not really a part of that crowd...
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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 3 SPOTS LEFT, STARTS WEDNESDAY
« Reply #51 on: September 30, 2015, 03:15:14 pm »

You could make a post in the Forum Games section rather than in Non-Mafia Game Threads, that may catch a player or two who doesn't check this section.
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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 3 SPOTS LEFT, STARTS WEDNESDAY
« Reply #52 on: September 30, 2015, 03:17:19 pm »

I will when I get home, I'm on mobile now. But I think it's safe to say this will be pushed back to at least tomorrow, I have a few things that came up tonight, even if we got the people

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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 3 SPOTS LEFT, STARTS WEDNESDAY
« Reply #53 on: September 30, 2015, 04:31:39 pm »

I'm a frequent forum game player that has never played Forum Survivor, but I don't know what this is and it looks scary. It might be possible to convince me to join.
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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 3 SPOTS LEFT, STARTS WEDNESDAY
« Reply #54 on: September 30, 2015, 04:34:44 pm »

I just realized I never actually put a description of the game in the OP...  I'll update that when I get home.

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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 3 SPOTS LEFT, STARTS WEDNESDAY
« Reply #55 on: September 30, 2015, 04:49:51 pm »

Brief run-down of how things work, it's pretty general since a lot of things change from season to season (and players usually aren't told about it in advance).

We start out divided into tribes, usually two of them but sometimes more. Tribes compete in challenges for rewards and for immunity -- the actual game takes place on a deserted island, so rewards are things like food, blankets, tarps, stuff like that; the forum game has different types of rewards. Immunity challenges are where one tribe will "lose" the challenge and have to go to Tribal Council.

At Tribal Council, everyone in the tribe casts a vote for someone to boot (can't vote for yourself). The person with the most votes is eliminated from the game.

At some point, all the tribes will merge into one tribe; at this point, challenges become individual challenges (though some reward challenges will be played in teams, or the winner of the reward can pick some other people to share the reward with them). During the tribal phase, only the people on the losing tribe go to Tribal Council and vote, but after the merge, everyone votes, including the person with immunity. You just can't vote for the person with immunity. Still, most votes is eliminated.

At some point, eliminated players will no longer be completely out of the game, but instead they will join the jury -- they aren't eligible to win the game anymore, but they are the ones who will eventually determine the winner.

At some point, usually when there are 2 or 3 people left, we stop voting people out of the game, and instead have Final Tribal Council. This is where the jury addresses the finalists and will vote for a winner -- the most jury votes will win the game and become Sole Survivor.

Those are the rules, they are pretty simple: you can use whatever criteria you want for casting your votes (and your jury votes), but on the show people quickly realized that they need to form alliances with other people to get a majority of the votes on their tribe, otherwise they end up getting voted off. So a lot of the game takes place in QTs with various combinations of people in order to form alliances, but even if that alliance makes it all the way and votes everybody off, eventually they have to turn on each other because there can only be one winner.

There are many ways to play the game, and people have had success with all of them on the show: you can play a physical game and just try to win all of the challenges. You can play a strategic game and form lots of alliances to keep the votes off of you. You can play a social game and just befriend everyone so they don't want to vote you off.

In a forum setting, the challenges are a little different than on the show, but many people have said that the challenges are their favorite part of the game. You can check out last season's OP for links to all of the challenges that were done last season.

Time commitment? Forum Survivor is a game that gives back what you put into it: if you want to, you can spend hours every day playing the game and have tons of fun doing it. If you don't have that kind of time, checking in once per day is plenty to do everything you need to do, and V/LA is pretty much always fine as long as the mod knows about it, especially early on in the game when you can just sit people out of challenges if necessary.

The last two seasons took about nine months from start to finish. Yeah that's a long time but most people didn't end up playing the game for that long, as people are eliminated throughout the game. In both seasons, we've had people who wanted to bow out because something came up and they didn't have the time, or it turns out they weren't having too much fun: that's totally OK and easy to deal with (as long as you are open about it with the mod).

I tried playing a forum game a long time ago and it wasn't really my thing, but I can't get enough of Forum Survivor. It's certainly a different experience, and in my mind it's a way better one. Hopefully you decide to give it a shot :)
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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 3 SPOTS LEFT, STARTS WEDNESDAY
« Reply #56 on: September 30, 2015, 05:51:43 pm »

Well said Adam, and better than I would have said.  I'll just link to your post in the OP

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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 3 SPOTS LEFT, STARTS WEDNESDAY
« Reply #57 on: October 01, 2015, 01:31:24 pm »

I guess I could give it a try. /in
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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 3 SPOTS LEFT, STARTS WEDNESDAY
« Reply #58 on: October 01, 2015, 04:15:28 pm »

I guess I could give it a try. /in

i tried it with no knowledge last time. It was great! I got kicked out first...
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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 2 SPOTS LEFT
« Reply #59 on: October 01, 2015, 04:40:15 pm »

Oh dear, should I be worried?  :-\

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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 2 SPOTS LEFT
« Reply #60 on: October 01, 2015, 04:41:09 pm »

What would you be worried about?

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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 2 SPOTS LEFT
« Reply #61 on: October 01, 2015, 04:44:34 pm »

The 'I didn't know-I got kicked out first'-part :P

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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 2 SPOTS LEFT
« Reply #62 on: October 01, 2015, 05:06:19 pm »

Eh, don't worry about that. Especially since nor than one person knows nothing about it.

Also, just so everyone is clear, we're just going to wait to sart this until we have 14 people

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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 2 SPOTS LEFT
« Reply #63 on: October 01, 2015, 05:31:59 pm »

It was half-joking ;)

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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 2 SPOTS LEFT
« Reply #64 on: October 01, 2015, 07:49:21 pm »

Also, don't worry, I had no idea of anything last game and ended up getting really close to the end.
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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 2 SPOTS LEFT
« Reply #65 on: October 02, 2015, 10:40:19 am »

I really, really wish I had time to play this one. I'm just so incredibly busy. I'm sure you'll find your last two players!
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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 2 SPOTS LEFT
« Reply #66 on: October 05, 2015, 12:24:36 am »

Could I play? ;D Thanks!

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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 2 SPOTS LEFT
« Reply #67 on: October 05, 2015, 07:25:33 am »

Certainly! 1 more spot!

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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 2 SPOTS LEFT
« Reply #68 on: October 07, 2015, 04:08:22 pm »

Lol I'll be happy if i'm not the first one voted out :P
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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 2 SPOTS LEFT
« Reply #69 on: October 07, 2015, 04:56:15 pm »

Lol I'll be happy if i'm not the first one voted out :P
Nah man, that's gonna be me.
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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 2 SPOTS LEFT
« Reply #70 on: October 08, 2015, 05:11:41 pm »

somebody please hammer...
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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 2 SPOTS LEFT
« Reply #71 on: October 08, 2015, 05:47:30 pm »

Should probably switch title to "1 spot left"
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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 1 SPOT LEFT
« Reply #72 on: October 08, 2015, 05:49:41 pm »

Done. So you'll join now right?

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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 1 SPOT LEFT
« Reply #73 on: October 08, 2015, 05:54:23 pm »

Done. So you'll join now right?
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Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - 1 SPOT LEFT
« Reply #74 on: October 11, 2015, 04:55:52 pm »

Come on...  :-\
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