World Championship #2

jmamos

This is a nerd game, so I'll bring math into it... If you randomly select from [0,2,5], the standard deviation is 2.05. Randomly selecting from [0,4] has a standard deviation of 2.0 and 3p is actually more important than 2p. So if the goal is to best approximate perfect equality of 2p, 3p, and 4p, the current design is as perfect as it gets.

fugg

jmamos thank you for your perspective, I think you are correct. I was looking at Player B as having a 1-2 record in 3p, but I should look at it as 1-2-0 record compared to 1-0-2. It makes sense for player B to do better, as they won more because any amount of pts is winning

Giga

Help! Game 8 Group 134

Chuckles_the_second

Hi Pajada, how long will it be until the start of the next stage?

virvett

We are ready to go. Thank you again pajada for being so helpfull with TTA players.

DaemonCleaner

Hey pajada, thanks for hosting this tournament. Could you remove me from future invites, please? Thank you.

pajada

DaemonCleaner hi, you ended 3rd in Stage 1, so you are not continuing in this tournament. That means you should not get any invites to World Championship #2.

pajada

BastionvonRaven write e-mail to digitaltesters@czechgames.com where you describe the issue and write the name of the game. They will fix it.

ChosenWizard

pajada I just realized Bastion was talking about my event, I dont know how it happened but I seeded a single event and both Civil Unrest and Inhab Terri II showed up. And now when I check future deck I see the actual Impact card I played along with an "age III Armed Intervention played by Conficius" 😃 the problem is Bastion accused me of cheating, yet this is simply a bug and I dont think it is a proper attitude to accuse someone because of a minor software failure.

isman

Please check group 105 game 11
cbend37 sent 5 military units to colonize being under a war in round 18 and gave all culture to maxolino

vanishadow

Could you remove me from this tournament? Sorry I don't have enough time to continue. Thanks!

pajada

ChosenWizard yes it is bug. Were you able to get support from the e-mail mentioned in my previous post? What's the situation with this game?

ChosenWizard

pajada Yep, they replied. However the game was in late Age III and we finished it. Support team still might want to check it for possible future bugs

BitterBlossom

hi!
In Group31 Game6 ，I declared a war ，but I didnt want to do that (i only have 11 military） It was a mistake by accident（
i want to know may i cancel it（

pajada

BitterBlossom because it happened in 2p game and you are the only one who will be affected by this mistake you can't cancel your move. If it would be allowed it will open Pandora box of different problems. Mistakes happen, I'm sorry it was in World Championship.

khyung

The scoring of ties does not make sense for duels. Instead of rewarding both players in a tied duel, the splitting of game points between both players actually punishes both players in fuel, relative to the rest of the group.

Splitting points make make sense in 3-player and 4-player games but not in 2-player games in the context of tournament groups.

jmamos

khyung What's different about splitting points in 2p? Those 2 points for converting a 2p loss into a draw, or a draw into a win, are just as good as the 2 points for converting a 3rd place into a 2nd place in a 3p/4p.

But even if you believe those 2 points are somehow less valuable ... so what? Maybe adjust your strategy to account for it. It's a deliberate design feature of lots of professional sports events and chess tournaments for a win + loss to be better than 2 draws. Likewise, 1st + 3rd is better than 2nd + 2nd in most TtA tournaments.

Decolonization

A bug occured.
The player playing Nostradamus somehow got the right to put in three events and made the decision to put in three events in one political phase.
How should I handle this? In the meantime, I will consult with the digitaltesters@czechgames.com.

pajada

Decolonization best approach is to not continue in the game and support on that e-mail for a help. In this case I think rewind of multiple seeds may be possible. As Nostradamus is involved leaked info may not be that big... but it is probably the best we can get from the situation.

pajada

Decolonization I contacted CGE with my proposal and they are working on it.

Decolonization

pajada Frankly, I don't really want to play it.
He knew it was a bug and yet he put in 3 events.(If twice, it may be an accident, but three times, it's unlikely.)
If it was not malicious, he would have reported it here.
Since the event leak is occurring, can you let me decide whether to continue or declare the game invalid?