BrianBaru wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 07, 2023 4:36 pm

Yes, the scoring on takeovers here really hurts rankings, but I play for fun and don't care about rank. I hate seeing games go bad, so I step in. I've played many games with those other two guys.

Appreciate it, and I'm hoping we'll be able to correct that before long (hopefully retroactively)

Glad to see people seem generally in favour of this.. Always hard to know whether the forum reflects what the majority of players think, I suspect if I made the change I'd get at least some people up in arms, but it's feeling at least plausible. Tbh- I personally enjoy the points system. I think usi...

Damn .. just noticed another spammer. Whoever it is was hiding links to some crappy game website for kids so that it couldn't be seen in their post. Based on the messages and timing it's definitely a person, probably someone affiliated closely with the site. I guess it doesn't matter that the forum ...

Yeah it's kind of a strange law.. I feel like the music/film/tv industry get crazy strong copyright protections, but board game creators probably don't have as much lobbying power. I think because a rulebook describes a method you can't copyright / patent a method or some such. The classic example i...

I guess the only way you might be able to tell is if the orders were clearly not in the bot's interest / not optimal for itself / would encourage you do to something that might benefit it. Then you might realise that it's not generating text based on a logical order but on a pseudo-order. (But that...

The only important difference between the two is that with GR the rating you stand to lose in a game (the "bet", in points terms) is relative to your current rating (multiplied by a factor based on the game type / press type), instead of a set amount that's set when the game is created and is the s...

Site visibility is way more important than stopping occasional spam posts on the forum IMO. What good is a spam-free WebDip with a dwindling player base? This is just for the forum. The analytics don't point to a lot of new users arriving via the forum, but I'll keep an eye on it. The stats are fin...

I'd love to see whether the bot could do better in some circumstances by indulging the lies it crafts with its pseudo moves. Maybe the bots are unconvincing liars, so the default to selectively-volunteered truth is better for them? I actually have the opposite intuition - in my experience a well-tu...

Might I ask, though - what would be the purpose of giving CICERO deceptive powers? What good does it do? That's a surprising question :| I'm a terrible Diplomacy player but surely there are situations where you're about to stab someone and it's advantageous to lie and continue the impression of an ...

Maybe I'm missing something, but Dip Points don't mean a thing. I actually found them very confusing when I joined the site and I'm still a little perplexed by them. You can't lose them all, you can get them from bot games (I think?), and you can accumulate a ton of them at once if you get lucky in...

Or make it so the forum doesn't get indexed by search engines at all so isn't visible/useful to SEO bots, but that'd reduce the site's visibility also.. I guess I'll give this one a try and see how it goes. Site visibility is way more important than stopping occasional spam posts on the forum IMO. ...

I'm not sure whether right or wrong but the full press AI CICERO was intentionally written to not be deceitful based on input from top Diplomacy players I expect it's a bit of style thing, that you can be a good player with either approach and it's more about other factors This is super interesting...

Hmm.. Are they still as bad as before? If so that's annoying, I figured the click-the-countries challenge would surely be unique enough to filter them out.. That means it must be people completing the challenge, which seems like it surely wouldn't be worth it. I just checked the challenge out out o...

Wait...Backstabbr can do that? Yeah I didn't realize backstabbr had bots at all :| I am working on the bots but the priority list is: - Stabilising them, they're still a bit fragile and need to be maintained a few times / week - Optimising full press to prioritise human messages - Drop games where ...

Hmm.. Are they still as bad as before? If so that's annoying, I figured the click-the-countries challenge would surely be unique enough to filter them out.. That means it must be people completing the challenge, which seems like it surely wouldn't be worth it. I just checked the challenge out out o...

I mean, getting rid of :points: would delete the only record of player performance that didn't penalize CD takeovers. If you're going to do a radical change like this it would be better start with a blank slate than to inherit points from the flawed GhostRatings system, right? Hmm, I definitely don...

I would love if taking on open positions were at least counted correctly on a player's page, which is not the case now. That said, I don't know that it'd be good to reward helpfulness/openness/honesty in other contexts. Seems like that might encourage even more Carebearishness, which IMO is already...

I'm not sure whether right or wrong but the full press AI CICERO was intentionally written to not be deceitful based on input from top Diplomacy players I expect it's a bit of style thing, that you can be a good player with either approach and it's more about other factors It's an interesting idea, ...

I'm young and relatively healthy. I got three shots of COVID vaccine throughout the pandemic and have had at least one COVID infection (maybe two). I'm pretty ambivalent about getting additional shots, but I'm not opposed either. For me, it's become like the flu shot — I know it won't hurt me (beyo...

Hmm.. Okay I think I've got my head around GR now. In points terms it's winner-take-all with three modifications: - The bet size for each player is their points divided by 17.5 * two numbers based on the variant / press type. - If you draw and it's SoS you get your supply center count^2 / total supp...