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[scott_pilgrim]

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Rules for the next game going up shortly.

[scott_pilgrim]

6. Build a Tower      
   
Rules
         
THERE IS TO BE NO COMMUNICATION AFTER RULES ARE POSTED.         
This game will be played in four rounds.         
Each round, each player PM's the mod with their choice of one tower to build a block on.         
At the end of the round, the placement of each player's block will be revealed.         
At the end of the final round, each player who placed at least one block in a given completed tower scores x VP, where x is a number that depends on the tower.  Incomplete towers will not score anyone any points.
The number of blocks required to complete each tower varies from tower to tower.         
Here are the available towers:         

Tower   Blocks to complete   Points   
A       20                   30   
B       13                   17   
C1      7-12*                8-15*   
C2      7-12*                8-15*   
D       3-8*                 3-8*   
E1      8                    10   
E2      8                    10   
F1      6                    6   
F2      6                    6   
F3      6                    6   
G1      4                    3   
G2      4                    3   

*The C and D towers require a random (integer) number of blocks to complete.  That number will not be revealed until after the final round (but it will be chosen uniformly at random).  The number of points the tower is worth, for tower D, is equal to the number of blocks required to complete it.  For each C Tower, use the following table:      
   
   Blocks to complete   Points   
   7                    8   
   8                    9   
   9                    10   
   10                   12   
   11                   13   
   12                   15   

Note that you do not get "bonus" points for placing mutliple blocks in the same tower.  After you have placed one block in a tower, your only motivation to place more is to help ensure that the tower gets finished.         

[scott_pilgrim]

Deadline for Round 1 will be 8pm tomorrow (Sunday).

[scott_pilgrim]

Clarification: You CAN add blocks to a tower that is already finished.

[scott_pilgrim]

Random note: GendoIkari's and/or faust's scores may be wrong in the OP.  At some point I will try to double-check everything and maybe make a Google doc to track where points are coming from.

(It looks to me like GendoIkari's score is correct, but faust's score is reported as 112 when it should be 122, which I will correct now.)

[scott_pilgrim]

Round 1 Results:

Calamitas   A
UmbrageOfSnow   (no submission)
gkrieg13   A
sudgy   A
liopoil   A
2.71828…   B
Dylan32   A
faust   A
ghostofmars   B
schadd   A
GendoIkari   B
LaLight   A

Tower A: 8/20
Tower B: 3/13
All other towers: 0/??

[scott_pilgrim]

Deadline for Round 2 will be 8pm tomorrow (Monday).

[scott_pilgrim]

Round 2 Results:

Calamitas   A
UmbrageOfSnow   (no submission)
gkrieg13   A
sudgy   A
liopoil   (no submission)
2.71828…   A
Dylan32   A
faust   B
ghostofmars   A
schadd   A
GendoIkari   A
LaLight   A

Tower A: 17/20
Tower B: 4/13
All other towers: 0/??

[scott_pilgrim]

Deadline for Round 3 is 8pm tomorrow (Tuesday).

[scott_pilgrim]

Round 3 Results:

Calamitas   B
UmbrageOfSnow   (no submission)
gkrieg13   B
sudgy   A
liopoil   B
2.71828…   B
Dylan32   A
faust   F1
ghostofmars   D
schadd   A
GendoIkari   G1
LaLight   (no submission)

Tower A: 20/20
Tower B: 8/13
Tower D: 1/(3-8)
Tower F1: 1/6
Tower G1: 1/4
All other towers: 0/??

[scott_pilgrim]

Deadline for Round 4 is 8pm tomorrow (Wednesday).

[scott_pilgrim]

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Results coming soon

[scott_pilgrim]

Round 4 Results:

Calamitas   B
UmbrageOfSnow   (no submission)
gkrieg13   D
sudgy   B
liopoil   G1
2.71828…   B
Dylan32   B
faust   G1
ghostofmars   B
schadd   F1
GendoIkari   B
LaLight   B

Tower A: 20/20
Tower B: 15/13
Tower D: 2/(3-8)
Tower F1: 2/6
Tower G1: 3/4

[gkrieg13]

Ya looking back I should've placed my last block on G1, but didn't have enough time to think about it (not because of the deadlines, just was a busy day)

[scott_pilgrim]

Everyone except schadd and UmbrageOfSnow gets 47 points.  (schadd gets 30.)

In retrospect I think I made things worth too many points.

[scott_pilgrim]

Also, unless he responds before the next game starts, I'm going to auto-/out UmbrageOfSnow for inactivity (sorry!).

[scott_pilgrim]

The next game probably will not start until at least Friday night, possibly later.  I want to make sure the game works and is interesting and I don't have a lot of time tomorrow.

[schadd]

did i forget to pollinate B


i figured F1 would work out because of sheeping faust and whatnot. but i also forgot that i spent all of my other labor seeing A to fruition

[sudgy]

I feel like the strategy was a bit too obvious for this one.  Everybody wants points, so if everyone puts their pieces on the high point towers then everyone wins.

[Axxle]

I feel like the strategy was a bit too obvious for this one.  Everybody wants points, so if everyone puts their pieces on the high point towers then everyone wins.

As someone on the sideline, it might have been a good idea to use your first two actions on towers that weren't the most obvious, to entice other players to use their last two actions on those same ones.

[liopoil]

PSA: Don't send your PMs to Scott Pilgrim, send them to scott_pilgrim. That's what happened to me in round 2.

I had intended to build tower B in round 2. Had that worked out, I would have built F1 in round 3. Then since faust and I both played A in round 1 and G1 in round 4, we actually made the same decisions every single round, which is neat.

It was pretty unlucky that in round 3 three different people did three different things (D,F1,G1). I thought F1 was best because we could clearly complete A,B, and F1 with some wiggle-room to spare. I can understand choosing G1 but F1 should have been achievable. Tower D just seems strictly worse? After round 3 though it was doubtful that F1 could happen so I went for G1, since I was confident that B would complete.

[scott_pilgrim]

I feel like the strategy was a bit too obvious for this one.  Everybody wants points, so if everyone puts their pieces on the high point towers then everyone wins.

Yeah, I agree that this game didn't end up being as interesting as I had intended.  I was a little surprised that no one went for a smaller tower in the first two rounds, because as Axxle pointed out, there is a benefit to going for a less obvious tower earlier on.  Somehow I convinced myself that it made sense for the points vs. blocks to be superlinear, but I think it maybe would have played out more like how I intended if it had been sublinear.

[LaLight]

Bump?

[ghostofmars]

Bump?

The next game probably will not start until at least Friday night, possibly later.

[LaLight]

Missed that, thanks!