Post by ARKILLO on Dec 14, 2014 5:58:07 GMT 10
Oh boy oh boy, it's time for my FINAL STATEMENT! Where I get to talk about how I think I did, and thank the hosts for the ride! Thanks for everything.
This game was excellent, obviously. Thanks for making it non-live so I could participate in an Aussie game finally! The timing of vote reveals was... um... inconvenient, but sleep is for sissies anyway. And I think arena format might be my favorite format, just because it gives you that second chance. I made the most of mine. This was one of those games that had a ton of little extras. My favorite "extra" is always hidden items, and I thought the password letter reveal was brilliant - you could find items without winning every challenge. And even though this was arena format, it wasn't just challenge-whores stomping over everybody - I think a pretty wide variety of people got to win something here. So the first portion of this game felt really balanced to me. Post-merge challenges seemed really heavy on social/luck/connections, though, there ws no way I would have been able to pull my usual stunt of surviving via immunity with THAT challenge lineup.
And oh my word the avatars were hot. AND PROBOARDS FOR EVERY GAME FOREVER PLEASE. "Likes"? Consolidated PM chains? GROUP THREADS? Group threads were a double-edged sword, but BOY was it a cool feature to try out. Being able to talk to everyone in the arena was a really good idea, too. I didn't make a point of taking advantage of it due to time constraints, but I think the people that will do really well in this game recognized how important it was to stay in touch with them, and it paid off.
I was thrilled with my character, and I had fun with the minor shtick I did, although I doubt it was enjoyed by everyone else. I always worry my character choice is going to give my ID away, and I thought this character was enough of a departure from my normals that I would be safe. Plus I figured this game would be full of mutant non-human space creature alien things, so I wouldn't stand out at all. But everyone kept calling me "lizard breath" and "lizard lips" and stuff like that, so I'm concerned they weren't fooled. So if anyone ID'ed me because of my character choice, I apologize. I also apologise, since there are Australians here.
I never used my superpower, whoops. We can just pretend my superpower is "making jury" and I used that. I also didn't realize until about round 7 that we could put little messages after our votes. But most of the votes after that point were stressful enough that I didn't feel like being clever or posting gifs.
The start of this game sucked, and I am still confused how and why it happened, but I understand that sometimes tribes just break the mold early (and I've been responsible for that myself once, sorry Xena), so it happens. It just made the comeback that much more epic. I NEVER GOT SENT BACK IN to the arena. Winning that one duel literally made a difference of 19 in my placement. And how funny that it was the only challenge I won.
After I got booted from DCV, I told people I wanted to find a tribe I could call my own, and just settle down with for the rest of the game, and that was Marvel Heroes. There wasn't really anyone outside of that group that I felt a good connection with. Maybe the Marvel Heroes were going to get around to booting me, but we never had to explore that scenario, so I stayed on good terms with all of them.
Unfortunately that 2-day arena gap really knocked my feet out from under me in this game. I never had a tribe to call my own, or any long term allies. Every time I thought I was making some, people decided they wanted to take them away from me. Rogue. Tigra. Beast. JM. Even when I picked allies I DIDN'T like (Hunt/Night), it just resulted in their death. Actually, Nightwing was fine, I actually was impressed by a UTR personality for once, and he was friendly enough. His only offense really is the fact that he keeps agreeing with/supporting Hunt.
But anyway, hitting the merge without any solid allies was kind of a death sentence. I tried some stuff, I made some mistakes, and couldn't hold on. It was difficult to lie to people when I didn't have anyone to back up my lies or collaborate with. Seems like there were two types of scenarios that people could have:
1. I tell person A I'm voting B, then person A tells person B and they both hate me.
2. I'm allies with person B and they know I would never vote them in a million years. I tell person A I'm voting B. Then person A tells person B and person B doesn't care and we have a good laugh about it later on and happily vote out a confused A.
I felt like a Scenario 1 in a world full of scenario 2s.
I think I played things poorly socially with the boot targets and outcasts. As far as I could tell, I needed to go more all-or-nothing, i.e. make outright (but false) promises of safety and alliances or ignore them completely. I kept trying to do something in-between, where I would stop by to say hi and then not offer anything useful. So, gotta work on that. I'm kind of expecting to be despised by most of the cast as a result, partially because I was a bit of a scumbag and partially because these people are INSANE, so I'm going to avoid reading the confessionals this time around. Looking back on a lot of decisions, there's stuff I would have done differently, but would doing the "correct" thing have gotten me 11th? I have no way of knowing. One small change in any part of this game could have seen me go home 2, 5, 10 rounds earlier. So I'm just going to be happy with what I have here, even though I know I made some iffy calls.
I know I was a hot mess in a lot of ways, but I assure you it was not nearly as much of a hot mess as it COULD have been, and I think I showed some decent restraint in a lot of places where I normally would have had a bigger meltdown. So I think I'm getting better, yay! Seriously, just keeping my mouth shut for a few extra hours each round worked WONDERS here.
Things I'm especially proud of:
- Winning a duel
- Winning a challenge
- Finding an Item
- Using that item at the perfect time for an epic ally save and jury spots
- Making Jury
- Learned what a dag is
Aside from winning, I really don't think I could have gotten much more out of this game, so I'm happy. Being so close to elimination early in the game made this placement seem like far more than I could have hoped for.
So thanks hosts for putting up with me, answering my questions, and in general just running a fantastic game. I had fun.
I will draw a picture for Rocket eventually, I just need to learn how to draw. It'll be a nice diversion from this jury.
This game was excellent, obviously. Thanks for making it non-live so I could participate in an Aussie game finally! The timing of vote reveals was... um... inconvenient, but sleep is for sissies anyway. And I think arena format might be my favorite format, just because it gives you that second chance. I made the most of mine. This was one of those games that had a ton of little extras. My favorite "extra" is always hidden items, and I thought the password letter reveal was brilliant - you could find items without winning every challenge. And even though this was arena format, it wasn't just challenge-whores stomping over everybody - I think a pretty wide variety of people got to win something here. So the first portion of this game felt really balanced to me. Post-merge challenges seemed really heavy on social/luck/connections, though, there ws no way I would have been able to pull my usual stunt of surviving via immunity with THAT challenge lineup.
And oh my word the avatars were hot. AND PROBOARDS FOR EVERY GAME FOREVER PLEASE. "Likes"? Consolidated PM chains? GROUP THREADS? Group threads were a double-edged sword, but BOY was it a cool feature to try out. Being able to talk to everyone in the arena was a really good idea, too. I didn't make a point of taking advantage of it due to time constraints, but I think the people that will do really well in this game recognized how important it was to stay in touch with them, and it paid off.
I was thrilled with my character, and I had fun with the minor shtick I did, although I doubt it was enjoyed by everyone else. I always worry my character choice is going to give my ID away, and I thought this character was enough of a departure from my normals that I would be safe. Plus I figured this game would be full of mutant non-human space creature alien things, so I wouldn't stand out at all. But everyone kept calling me "lizard breath" and "lizard lips" and stuff like that, so I'm concerned they weren't fooled. So if anyone ID'ed me because of my character choice, I apologize. I also apologise, since there are Australians here.
I never used my superpower, whoops. We can just pretend my superpower is "making jury" and I used that. I also didn't realize until about round 7 that we could put little messages after our votes. But most of the votes after that point were stressful enough that I didn't feel like being clever or posting gifs.
The start of this game sucked, and I am still confused how and why it happened, but I understand that sometimes tribes just break the mold early (and I've been responsible for that myself once, sorry Xena), so it happens. It just made the comeback that much more epic. I NEVER GOT SENT BACK IN to the arena. Winning that one duel literally made a difference of 19 in my placement. And how funny that it was the only challenge I won.
After I got booted from DCV, I told people I wanted to find a tribe I could call my own, and just settle down with for the rest of the game, and that was Marvel Heroes. There wasn't really anyone outside of that group that I felt a good connection with. Maybe the Marvel Heroes were going to get around to booting me, but we never had to explore that scenario, so I stayed on good terms with all of them.
Unfortunately that 2-day arena gap really knocked my feet out from under me in this game. I never had a tribe to call my own, or any long term allies. Every time I thought I was making some, people decided they wanted to take them away from me. Rogue. Tigra. Beast. JM. Even when I picked allies I DIDN'T like (Hunt/Night), it just resulted in their death. Actually, Nightwing was fine, I actually was impressed by a UTR personality for once, and he was friendly enough. His only offense really is the fact that he keeps agreeing with/supporting Hunt.
But anyway, hitting the merge without any solid allies was kind of a death sentence. I tried some stuff, I made some mistakes, and couldn't hold on. It was difficult to lie to people when I didn't have anyone to back up my lies or collaborate with. Seems like there were two types of scenarios that people could have:
1. I tell person A I'm voting B, then person A tells person B and they both hate me.
2. I'm allies with person B and they know I would never vote them in a million years. I tell person A I'm voting B. Then person A tells person B and person B doesn't care and we have a good laugh about it later on and happily vote out a confused A.
I felt like a Scenario 1 in a world full of scenario 2s.
I think I played things poorly socially with the boot targets and outcasts. As far as I could tell, I needed to go more all-or-nothing, i.e. make outright (but false) promises of safety and alliances or ignore them completely. I kept trying to do something in-between, where I would stop by to say hi and then not offer anything useful. So, gotta work on that. I'm kind of expecting to be despised by most of the cast as a result, partially because I was a bit of a scumbag and partially because these people are INSANE, so I'm going to avoid reading the confessionals this time around. Looking back on a lot of decisions, there's stuff I would have done differently, but would doing the "correct" thing have gotten me 11th? I have no way of knowing. One small change in any part of this game could have seen me go home 2, 5, 10 rounds earlier. So I'm just going to be happy with what I have here, even though I know I made some iffy calls.
I know I was a hot mess in a lot of ways, but I assure you it was not nearly as much of a hot mess as it COULD have been, and I think I showed some decent restraint in a lot of places where I normally would have had a bigger meltdown. So I think I'm getting better, yay! Seriously, just keeping my mouth shut for a few extra hours each round worked WONDERS here.
Things I'm especially proud of:
- Winning a duel
- Winning a challenge
- Finding an Item
- Using that item at the perfect time for an epic ally save and jury spots
- Making Jury
- Learned what a dag is
Aside from winning, I really don't think I could have gotten much more out of this game, so I'm happy. Being so close to elimination early in the game made this placement seem like far more than I could have hoped for.
So thanks hosts for putting up with me, answering my questions, and in general just running a fantastic game. I had fun.
I will draw a picture for Rocket eventually, I just need to learn how to draw. It'll be a nice diversion from this jury.