The Nineteenth Byte

> To those calling us griefers, cheaters, or unsportsmanlike in the comments, chat, or elsewhere, I can only say that I didn't do this in that spirit. Feel free to disagree, but I wasn't trying to "cheat". AFAICT, the general feeling in our chat room was that others would soon take notice and start getting revenge by casting votes on us. In this way it would open the game up to a more interactive inter-site rivalry.

> We figured alliances would form, and the object would be to build your egg while fending off others. There was no intent to "ruin the game", or "kill fun", at least not from anyone I talked to in chat.

TheBestOne

Yes

Rainbolt

I think that's true for some and not for others.

Optimizer

Yes

Rainbolt

I legitimately thought the game was about raiding people. I found out pretty quickly that it wasn't, and then I decided that the game was just poorly designed.

Optimizer

7:35 PM

I figured that this was part of it, if not the main objective

Rainbolt

I can only imagine that after the meta post went up, some people started raiding with negative intentions.

Optimizer

and sooner or later, others would have realized the same, better to realize ahead of them

Runer112

we're really stuck at 13 total hearts

Rainbolt

14

Boom!

Runer112

it looks like gaming is doing cycle strats

Rainbolt

7:36 PM

@Optimizer Our last graduation was at exactly 120 days?

Runer112

13

Optimizer

@Rainbolt roughly

Runer112

inb4 quality decay

back to 13

Optimizer

so always top down is not working - clearly

Rainbolt

We'll see.

Optimizer

7:38 PM

i am having a feeling that we are stuck in circles

Rainbolt

If we deviate now we don't learn anything

Runer112

yep, we're circling again

inb4 quality decay

oh.

Kevin Stricker

I would always hit quality before answers

Runer112

lucky us

Optimizer

or not ..

Kevin Stricker

7:39 PM

woo

Runer112

took us long enough to max

sort of

Optimizer

lol

Rainbolt

I think we will actually graduate just before 20 days. That's why I was asking for a real number

Kevin Stricker

inb4 quality decay?

Optimizer

but this is simply going in circles

Runer112

7:40 PM

nah not that day

it decayed the previous day

Rainbolt

@Kevin Quality is decaying exactly as fast as the rest.

Kevin Stricker

o

Rainbolt

As far as I can tell anyway

Runer112

seems that way to me as well

there's almost a pattern here

Kevin Stricker

So the rules are different after grad...

Rainbolt

7:41 PM

@Kevin Traffic increases quality decay

Runer112

this turn, answers and quality will decay

Rainbolt

But we knew that from the tooltip

Kevin Stricker

Gotcha

Runer112

oh.

Optimizer

lol

this is so weird

we were actually going in circles, b ut somehow broke the loop ?

Runer112

7:42 PM

I think we guarded from quality decay there

Rainbolt

Oh wait. If we go downvote when we are maxed out, wouldn't that negatively affect users?

Runer112

back to this again

Optimizer

back to circle

Rainbolt

I see. The downvote made users decay at the same time as questions.

TheBestOne

@Rainbolt Better users than quality.

Rainbolt

7:43 PM

So if we continue the cycle, questions and users will always decay at the same time

Runer112

I predict answer and quality deca

nailed it

no decay today

d;ih

Hello

users decay'ed

d'oh*

This is awkward

7:44 PM

Has anyone thought about trying to restart SO?

Runer112

no

Rainbolt

Kill it with fire!

Runer112

because that's against the rules

TheBestOne

no

Optimizer

is it even going anywhere ?

SO

E.A. Wilson

7:44 PM

aw

Runer112

what are we thinking here

Hosch250

Your restart troll is still around?

GiantCowFilms

102 days for beta!

:P

Runer112

oh crap we gettin restarted

GiantCowFilms

you're at 106

Optimizer

7:44 PM

@GiantCowFilms you did it in 102 ?

GiantCowFilms

@Optimizer yup

Rainbolt

@E.A.Wilson I got suspended for chat for a message similar to that one from six hours ago. I'd watch what you say.

Runer112

hax

Optimizer

what SE ? what strat ?

GiantCowFilms

If you look now we are at 105

@Optimizer Yourse mostly

Rainbolt

7:45 PM

Not trying to be mean, just saying. I don't want you to be suspended like I did.

GiantCowFilms

Full in everything except leave two on the users

Optimizer

@GiantCowFilms always top-bottom ?

GiantCowFilms

then jsut keep up with the decay

@Optimizer not quite

TheBestOne

@GiantCowFilms Did you use your flag?

Rainbolt

I think we beat 120 days

GiantCowFilms

7:45 PM

SKIP THE USERS STAT

@TheBestOne yup

we had to :/

Rainbolt

Someone post the actual strat for post grad

E.A. Wilson

I won't restart troll sorry lol

Rainbolt

Please

A detailed one if you don't mind

E.A. Wilson

Thanks Rainbolt

TheBestOne

@Rainbolt Dont engourage him!!!

Rainbolt

7:46 PM

@Optimizer post the strat

I trust you lol

Runer112

I'm partial to cycle strat

Rainbolt

Or runer

Runer112

but that's a bit complicated

Rainbolt

cycle then

Runer112

and not proven

Optimizer

7:47 PM

muahahahahaha

Rainbolt

We can pull it off

TheBestOne

105 days adjusted for flag.

Hosch250

That troll is persistent.

Optimizer

@GiantCowFilms you used flag ?

Rainbolt

So we always vote for the lowest then?

Runer112

7:47 PM

well that was a fail, down to 3

Rainbolt

I'm not sure what's going on lol

TheBestOne

Who is voting answer?

Runer112

my thought was cycle all nonzero stats, but apparently that's not what we're doing lol

Rainbolt

There we go

It's happening now

Kevin Stricker

I'd build up questions and answers, then users then make judicious use of close to get quality up.

But I have no idea

Runer112

7:49 PM

what is this close crap

5 close?

E.A. Wilson

no close it

We have two question hearts

Kevin Stricker

Does close decay less if it starts at two?

Runer112

bleh we're getting nowhere

Rainbolt

Here's my priorities right now, in an effort to get it on a cycle. LEAST STARS, followed by TOPMOST STAT in the event of a tie

Runer112

crap we're getting close raided

Kevin Stricker

7:50 PM

Q&A > Users > Quality ^_^

Runer112

that's like 6 closes

Kevin Stricker

fek

Rainbolt

Haha ok. I'm back on the top down plan then.

GiantCowFilms

@KevinStricker q before u

Runer112

whatever we're doing is failing miserably

Rainbolt

7:51 PM

Optimizer was right. Unity before best strat.

Kevin Stricker

ha

Runer112

good old top-down it is

except for all the people voting answer

Rainbolt

Not I

Need a designated call guy for the next one

To write out what our plan is

In simple words

Runer112

something tells me top-down is definitely not optimal, but it's at least easy

Rainbolt

Lol 4 0 0 0 0 hearts

We're on tilt

Sieg

7:53 PM

What's going on?

Runer112

wait a second

Rainbolt

Oh man. I thought someone's avatar was ... but I clicked on the ... and suddenly I can see the rest of the users

Runer112

do we remember how well alternating did in private beta

not a single decay occurred

what if we just alternate between the two highest, non-full stats

DigitalTrauma

it was ok to leave quality in warning for a round

Rainbolt

Anime just hit 4 wins

Kevin Stricker

7:55 PM

close xd

Runer112

what is with this close crap

get that garbage out of here

Kevin Stricker

need to get traffic up

Shoulda closed

Sieg

I'm so very confused right now.

Kevin Stricker

Could have got 2 for the price of one

Rainbolt

Two for the price of one... is the same amount we would get anyway.

We net 1 heart for every vote. And then everything decays

Hosch250

7:57 PM

Finally got rid of the troll, it seems.

Kevin Stricker

If addresses is about to decay

Hosch250

They are slowing down, anyway.

Runer112

that seemed to work well

Kevin Stricker

It makes sense.

Er questions yeesh

Hosch250

It seems like it decays faster when we all do separate ones.

It seems to go up faster when we all hit the same one.

Runer112

7:59 PM

inb4 answer decay?

bleh, ask decay

I have no idea what to do any more

Rainbolt

Aww heck. We're on that cycle now

This is what we wanted

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