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Post by Ryan on Jan 13, 2006 20:25:41 GMT -5
I think that it's very likely to see flurries of postings at the end of the first minute (or after the first claim post). It's important in this game to have more posts available than everybody else, so it will be wise to wait it out in the beginning. Sucker everybody into thinking that Lisu isn't available in that particular round.
Maybe after multiple tribes have dropped some posts, try and claim the gem (at the end of a minute, of course). If they keep stealing them back and you have more posts left than them, you can claim the final post and the remaining minutes. Of course, each game will be different, but it will be important to give ourselves that edge in the opening minutes.
We should also do our best to be aware of the other tribes. After we learn the names of the tribal accounts, we can look at their profiles to see when they last logged in. This will clue us in to who is around for each period. This will be key for the early morning times, because if only two tribes are awake, the first poster will always lose, assuming the second poster immediatly counters any steals.
I'm probably overthinking this. Any other thoughts about it?
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Post by Ryan on Jan 13, 2006 20:28:37 GMT -5
Things to do:
Modify our tribe's profile to remain invisible.
Write a clever, taunting signature.
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Post by Stacy on Jan 14, 2006 2:37:24 GMT -5
Sam says: You will get new user names and passwords periodically throughout the challenge. Check back here occassionally. I will ban old names so they won't be used. This is to further protect "anonymousness."
>< This will probably mean that we won't be able to tell who is on and who's not. I agree that we need to wait a bit before posting because clearly it will be an advantage to have more posts left than anyone else at the end of the match. Hopefully, though, we'll get in some times where we're the only tribe on.
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Post by Ryan on Jan 14, 2006 2:39:34 GMT -5
Since we can't edit our profile, we will at least be able to see when certain screennames are online because they can't go invisible either. But yeah, the name changes really throw a wrench in that.
We're probably way overthinking this.
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Post by Doug on Jan 14, 2006 8:47:25 GMT -5
I have a question. Does it make sense for whoever is online at that time to post in here if we won the gem or not? That way everyone that isn't online will be able to tell if we won or not, or what worked or what didn't.
We're going to kick butt on this one too! I can feel it!
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Post by Chuck on Jan 14, 2006 11:41:29 GMT -5
I'm up first and am gonna try to hold on posting until I need to. Also this might reveal how many tribes there really are now. Theres got to be at least 4 and maybe 5. We know of 3 thus far.
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Post by Chuck on Jan 14, 2006 11:46:43 GMT -5
Its basically whoever holds onto it the longest right? Or is it the last one who has it?
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Post by Sam on Jan 14, 2006 12:22:39 GMT -5
longest
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Post by Chuck on Jan 14, 2006 12:26:17 GMT -5
ok thankyou for updating me on that!
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Post by Chuck on Jan 14, 2006 13:42:49 GMT -5
This is more a game of luck and timing. I messed up on #2, thought I was the only one with a post left but I counted ostrich's wrong. I tried waiting out and it sometimes helps but sometimes if you post early everyone is worried that they will lose posts so they don't post and then you get more time. This is a game of luck. So far its 1-1-0-0 (ostrichboy and mr.burns won)
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Post by Eric B. on Jan 14, 2006 15:38:49 GMT -5
That didn't go too well! I scored a few minutes here and there, but I don't think it will add up to beat the others.
Mr. Burns definitely knows what he's doing, so watch out for him.
Advice to others going: Make sure before the challenge, you know the very second that the clock changes to the next minute. Because all the others are posting right on :58 or :59 to claim the minute.
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Post by Chuck on Jan 14, 2006 15:40:48 GMT -5
Its a difficult challenge! Good try Eric.
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Post by Eric B. on Jan 14, 2006 18:00:12 GMT -5
Ugh, no look with either of those =(. Really sorry everyone!
SoupNazi won another, so I think their at like 3 victories now.
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Post by Stacy on Jan 14, 2006 19:35:50 GMT -5
I thought we were SoupNazi?
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Post by Chuck on Jan 14, 2006 20:11:25 GMT -5
I think he got it confused and meant mr.burns maybe?
Also I've only see 4 names thus far, I'd assume that means only 4 tribes but who knows. I would think there was more then that. Who knows.
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Post by Ryan on Jan 14, 2006 20:17:37 GMT -5
I think the fact that Sam said only 10 people have been booted (he told me that Hector's boot took the place of that tribe's TC) means that there must have been a merge during the round where there were supposedly 4 tribes going to TC, and there must have been only 3 boots that round.
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Post by Stacy on Jan 15, 2006 1:45:09 GMT -5
Zephyr won both the 12 and 1220 ones.
In both of these (though each time is different), people seemed to be holding onto their posts, so posting at the exact minute it starts could score a couple or three minutes.
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Post by Stacy on Jan 15, 2006 3:38:32 GMT -5
I won the 2:00 one, but Zephyr won the 2:20.
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