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by Restitution
Tue May 19, 2020 5:08 pm
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: Shared wins?
Replies: 29
Views: 9175

Re: Shared wins?

A two-way draw is worth half a win. A 3-way draw is worth a third of a win.
by Restitution
Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:39 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: The truth about the new forum
Replies: 115
Views: 19850

Re: The truth about the new forum

1. Add a new forum and allow images and imbeddable youtube videos like 99.9999999999999% of all other active forums in every known corner of the internet. 2. Invest in forum content add more categories, including sports, writing, film 3. add more emojis, add more fonts and give users avatars 4. get...
by Restitution
Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:32 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: The truth about the new forum
Replies: 115
Views: 19850

Re: The truth about the new forum

If anything, the solution to this problem should just be a more prominent (and permanent) link to the discord, which is how communities are maintained in this modern year of 2016
by Restitution
Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:31 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: The truth about the new forum
Replies: 115
Views: 19850

Re: The truth about the new forum

you can buy more storage space pretty dirt cheap on just about any web hosting service. its like 400 bucks a year for 1 billion forum posts worth of data on some providers. I think you should trust the lead dev when he says there are technical issues with a feature, and not your own random guess. U...
by Restitution
Thu Feb 06, 2020 7:42 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: artificial intelligence
Replies: 5
Views: 2522

Re: artificial intelligence

Get a degree in computer science.
by Restitution
Tue Feb 04, 2020 1:50 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: bernie take my energy
Replies: 3
Views: 1420

bernie take my energy

that is all
by Restitution
Tue Jan 21, 2020 2:34 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: A Diplomacy Game Between 8th Graders
Replies: 5
Views: 2307

Re: A Diplomacy Game Between 8th Graders

Octavious wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2020 1:57 pm
Sounds rather fun. What ages are 8th graders?
13 to 14 years old I believe.
by Restitution
Mon Jan 20, 2020 3:36 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Moderator Team Announcement
Replies: 24
Views: 11745

Re: Moderator Team Announcement

cya Darg
by Restitution
Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:13 pm
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: Two Tier Scoring
Replies: 62
Views: 22276

Re: Two Tier Scoring

I am hosting a test game for my version. If anybody wants to join, please PM me.
by Restitution
Mon Jan 13, 2020 8:57 pm
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: Two Tier Scoring
Replies: 62
Views: 22276

Re: Two Tier Scoring

@RoganJosh, could you critique my version of 2TS? I'm going to call it "Proportional-2TS". The top 2 players in a game are allocated a share of the pot proportional to their share of the SCs. All other players then receive the remaining pot split equally among them. By "top 2 players", it is possibl...
by Restitution
Mon Jan 13, 2020 8:52 pm
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: Two Tier Scoring
Replies: 62
Views: 22276

Re: Two Tier Scoring

jay65536, when you mentioned you designed this system for "tournament games", not "cash games" - do you think mine or Mercy's system would be better for cash games? Because, when it comes to implementing a system for webdip, all games are cash games.
by Restitution
Mon Jan 13, 2020 8:42 pm
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: Two Tier Scoring
Replies: 62
Views: 22276

Re: Two Tier Scoring

I don't do Discord, so I can't join that link; but Restitution, if you get a bunch of people for a play-test, keep me apprised by PM. My original plan was to see if enough people PMed me about play-testing that I could organize a game or games myself, but maybe your way will yield better results. I...
by Restitution
Fri Jan 10, 2020 9:58 pm
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: Two Tier Scoring
Replies: 62
Views: 22276

Re: Two Tier Scoring

Two-tier scoring is maybe not my first choice for an alternative, but at least it's an alternative. The reason 2TS is so good is because it elegantly completely removes the incentive for the top player to cut the draw, replacing it entirely with an incentive to nab centers. When I figured this out ...
by Restitution
Fri Jan 10, 2020 6:04 pm
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: Two Tier Scoring
Replies: 62
Views: 22276

Re: Two Tier Scoring

https://discord.gg/qRH5Du

I made a new discord for anybody who wants to test 2ts.
by Restitution
Thu Jan 09, 2020 10:26 pm
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: Two Tier Scoring
Replies: 62
Views: 22276

Re: Two Tier Scoring

tr1285 wrote:
Thu Jan 09, 2020 7:38 pm
I might even end up volunteering to implement the code for a new one if that's needed.
I can implement it too. I've spoken to JMO and bo_sox, and the bigger challenge is going to be proving that a 2-tier system is necessary, which will require testing.
by Restitution
Thu Jan 09, 2020 1:04 am
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: Two Tier Scoring
Replies: 62
Views: 22276

Re: Two Tier Scoring

At the same time, because the top 2 powers' point totals will simply depend on their center counts, there is no real need for them to fight; while they don't care about draw-whittling, they also care less about competing. The 11-center powers don't care where they get their next centers from. Howev...
by Restitution
Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:04 am
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: Two Tier Scoring
Replies: 62
Views: 22276

Re: Two Tier Scoring

I mean, it's not just the assumption that it could happen in the same game; it's the straight fact that I don't want a 7-center 3way to be worth more than a 7-center board top. In the set of all X-center finishes, I want board tops to be the highest possible score for all X. Okay, so, here is an am...
by Restitution
Tue Jan 07, 2020 2:52 am
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: Two Tier Scoring
Replies: 62
Views: 22276

Re: Two Tier Scoring

I think I have come up with a better two-tier system. Though, maybe it was proposed earlier and I am just rephrasing: Given that a 17-SC finish should give exactly 50% of the pot, and given that no leader should earn less than 33.333% of the pot (because this is what they would make in a 3WD in DSS,...
by Restitution
Wed Jan 01, 2020 1:08 am
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: Two Tier Scoring
Replies: 62
Views: 22276

Re: Two Tier Scoring

jay65536 wrote:
Tue Dec 31, 2019 7:12 pm
stuff
Am I right in thinking that a leading player's score should be equal to their score in the worst-case 3wd? Or should it be equal to their score in the best-case 3wd?
by Restitution
Tue Dec 31, 2019 5:53 pm
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: Two Tier Scoring
Replies: 62
Views: 22276

Re: Two Tier Scoring

Jay: apologies if I’ve missed this, but could you spell out a little more why your top scores are what they are? I do think one reason your system feels complicated is that these values don’t have an obvious explanation. I agree, there's no clear reason why each SC count has a given score. This is ...