Alien Attack!

[chrome]

Round 1:

Aliens have 300,000,000 HP remaining.

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BREAKING NEWS! An unidentified aircraft has just made a crash landing on the outskirts of the city of Southperry and...oh...oh my god, it's an ALIEN! RUUUUUUUUN!

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The alien threat has been lying dormant in the city outskirts for some time now. The whole city has been deathly silent and nervous as to what's to come next; strange flashes of light come from where the ship landed every now and then, late in the night. The city is holding a council to determine whether or not to initiate communication with the spacecraft or not, and if the choice is made to engage with the alien, what methods are to be used. The choice is made based on popular vote.

What comes next is completely up to you, the participants. You will have to face the alien threat some way or another, and you do that by working together...in some way or another.

- You the participants will be forced to defend the city with your own private stocks of weaponry.
- You must all collectively do a certain amount of damage to the aliens with your weapons in order to fend it off.
- You'll be able to either load your weapons for use in combat, protect your stocks of ammunition, or steal from other players in order to increase your own supply.

This is a cooperative game sort of like mafia, only it involves defending a city from aliens. No special roles. Only one person "dies" each phase. This is something I just thought of not too long ago and more will be revealed in the set of rules I'll post if I get enough participants.

__________________________________________________ _____________________________

Because 22 people have signed up for this game, there will be 20 rounds.

Rules:

The ultimate goal of the game is to fend off the aliens attacking the city. However the winner of the game is the last man standing after all rounds are over. If the aliens do not die, then everyone loses.
- Each round, everyone is given x amount of ammo. Your goal each round is to try to shoot the most of that ammo at the aliens. You have a set of actions that you can choose to do each round: Shoot, give, steal, or guard.

- Shooting ammo, given that it is not stolen from you by another player, will give you points based on how much you shot.

- When you choose to shoot during a round you can also choose to guard your own ammo or steal from someone else.

- The ammo that you choose to shoot can be stolen.
- Giving ammo to someone else will give you as well as the player you gave your ammo to equal points based on how much ammo you gave that other player to shoot, but if that player does not choose to shoot that round, then you are rewarded nothing and that player gains your ammo.

- If a third player steals your ammo from the person who you gave it to, then you will still get the points for that ammo if the third player is able to shoot it.

- When you choose to give during around you can also choose to guard your own ammo or steal someone else's.
- Stealing ammo from someone else will give you points based on how much ammo you stole.

- If, for example, you try to steal 500 ammo from someone who chose to shoot 500 ammo, then you will acquire that ammo and shoot it for points. However, if you try to steal 500 ammo from someone who is only shooting 400 (and thus guarding the rest of his/her ammo), then you will acquire 400, but you will not shoot it for points.

- If you try to steal from someone who is not shooting that turn, then you gain nothing assuming that person is guarding his/her bees.

- If multiple people attempt to steal from the same person in one turn, only the smallest amount attempted to be stolen is actually stolen and that amount is split evenly among the thieves.

- If you try to steal from someone who has been given ammo, then that player's own stock of ammo takes priority of being stolen.

- When you choose to steal ammo you can also choose to shoot your own ammo or give to someone else.
- Guarding ammo from other players prevents it from being stolen, however the amount of ammo you choose to guard cannot be shot by you.

- When you choose to guard during a round you can also choose to shoot some of your own ammo or give some to someone else.
- Your actions can only involve one other person.
- The aliens have y HP.
- The total amount of ammo dispensed by the OP (me) during the game will be more than the aliens' total HP (>y)
- At the end of each round, the two people who are credited with shooting the least ammo are cut from the game. Idlers take priority of being eliminated.

For anyone confused about how to submit actions:

Say I want to steal 500,000 bees from Greg and shoot 500,000 of my own. I would say:

Shoot 500,000 bees
Steal 500,000 bees from Greg

Whatever Greg does and whether or not other people steal from him will affect whether or not I can actually steal those bees from him. If anyone steals from me I'm pretty much screwed. Sorry if I overcomplicated anything.

[Corn]

1. Corn

[xBTAx]

FIRST.

EDIT: DAMMIT CORN.

[Link]

Interesting, to say the least.

1. Corn
2. BTA
3. ShiKage

[Jon]

umm.

1. Jon

damnit.

1. Corn
2. BTA
3. ShiKage

[Corn]

I just ninjaed 3 people didn't I? Yeah, I saw your original post Shikage :f3:.

[Kurtle]

1. Corn
2. BTA
3. ShiKage
1.Jon
2.Kurtle

[Kalovale]

Interesting.

But I'll just watch.

[Nalek]

1. Corn
2. BTA
3. ShiKage
4. Jon
5. Kurtle
6. Nalek

[MetaSeraphim]

*signs up*

[MasPan]

I say we give them a virus. A computer virus. It might take down their shields.

8. MasPan

[Corn]

I say we give them a virus. A computer virus. It might take down their shields.

8. MasPan

Anyone have a Mac?

+1 for reference

[Manu]

I'm lost on number so
+Darkmaniak

[chrome]

1. Corn
2. BTA
3. ShiKage
4. Jon
5. Kurtle
6. Nalek
7. MetaSeraphim
8. MasPan
9. Darkmaniak

For reference.

[ChaoticCJ]

1. Corn
2. BTA
3. ShiKage
4. Jon
5. Kurtle
6. Nalek
7. MetaSeraphim
8. MasPan
9. Darkmaniak
10. ChaoticCJ

[z0mgc00k13]

1. Corn
2. BTA
3. ShiKage
4. Jon
5. Kurtle
6. Nalek
7. MetaSeraphim
8. MasPan
9. Darkmaniak
10. ChaoticCJ
11. z0mgc00k13

[Kalovale]

1. Corn
2. BTA
3. ShiKage
4. Jon
5. Kurtle
6. Nalek
7. MetaSeraphim
8. MasPan
9. Darkmaniak
10. ChaoticCJ
11. z0mgc00k13
12. Kalovale

I read wrong and thought there was a maximum participant cap.

[Sarah]

Don't really understand but I'm in.

13. Sarah

[sicnarf]

1. Corn
2. BTA
3. ShiKage
4. Jon
5. Kurtle
6. Nalek
7. MetaSeraphim
8. MasPan
9. Darkmaniak
10. ChaoticCJ
11. z0mgc00k13
12. Kalovale
13. Sarah
14. sicnarf

[chrome]

(10:46:25) <+_Ben> ok so basically this is how the alien game is gonna work
(10:46:33) <+_Ben> i'll put this in the rules thread eventually
(10:46:40) <+_Ben> it's not that complicated at all
(10:46:51) <+_Ben> every player starts off with the same amount of ammunition
(10:47:19) <+_Ben> each turn you can either use that ammo to shoot the aliens and/or safeguard it from other players
(10:47:30) <+_Ben> if you safeguard your ammo then you can't use it but it also can't be stolen
(10:47:36) <+_Ben> or you can steal ammo from other players
(10:47:58) <+_Ben> each turn you can shoot your ammo if you want but if you choose to steal then you can't guard your own supply
(10:48:03) <+_Ben> and vice versa
(10:48:14) <Nalek> how do you die o-o
(10:48:24) <+_Ben> at the end of each round the player who shot the least amount of ammo is cut
(10:48:31) <Nalek> oicic
(10:48:44) <+_Ben> so example if player A shoots 1000 ammo and player B chooses to steal 600
(10:48:49) <+_Ben> player B will instead shoot 600 ammo
(10:48:53) <+_Ben> and player A will only shoot 400
(10:48:56) <+_Ben> and player A will be cut
(10:49:06) <Nalek> wiat how does player b shoot ammo if he steals
(10:49:16) <+_Ben> i'm getting to that
(10:49:32) <+_Ben> if player A shoots 500 and guards 500 and player B steals 500 he'll get 500 and shoot it
(10:49:37) <+_Ben> but if he tries to steal 600
(10:49:40) <+_Ben> then he'll only get 500
(10:49:43) <+_Ben> and he won't shoot it
(10:49:58) <Nalek> oic o_O so you can aurd part ammo and shoot opart
(10:50:00) <+_Ben> basically if you try to steal more ammo than the other players protect
(10:50:05) * +Throes (mibbit@78.129.202.38) Quit (Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client)
(10:50:08) <Nalek> can i shoot corn with my ammo?
(10:50:16) * Baklava (~chatzilla@crown-5-163.resnet.ucsc.edu) has joined #southperry
(10:50:18) <+_Ben> then you get what you can get but you won't shoot it in the same turn
(10:50:19) <+_Ben> and no lol
(10:50:23) <Nalek> f4
(10:50:43) <+_Ben> last man left standing wins, but if the alien doesn't die then you all lose

[Russt]

Wait. If this is supposed to be cooperative, why are people stealing from each other?

[chrome]

Everyone's supposed to take out the big mean aliens that are attacking Southperry. (and setting it on fire OH HO)

[Kalovale]

We should combine this with the shooting game. Shoot, self shoot, sky shoot, steal ammo, guard ammo, dickkick, etc...

[Unauthorized Intruder]

Although I don't quite understand which I can do if I choose to do X action, but I'll take that I can do only one action per turn.
1. Corn
2. BTA
3. ShiKage
4. Jon
5. Kurtle
6. Nalek
7. MetaSeraphim
8. MasPan
9. Darkmaniak
10. ChaoticCJ
11. z0mgc00k13
12. Kalovale
13. Sarah
14. sicnarf
15. Unauthorized Intruder

[Holypie]

1. Corn
2. BTA
3. ShiKage
4. Jon
5. Kurtle
6. Nalek
7. MetaSeraphim
8. MasPan
9. Darkmaniak
10. ChaoticCJ
11. z0mgc00k13
12. Kalovale
13. Sarah
14. sicnarf
15. Unauthorized Intruder
16. Holypie

[Dual]

17. DualReaver

herpaderp

[Corn]

Still a bit confused about the rules, but meh.

[Five Second Pose]

1. Corn
2. BTA
3. ShiKage
4. Jon
5. Kurtle
6. Nalek
7. MetaSeraphim
8. MasPan
9. Darkmaniak
10. ChaoticCJ
11. z0mgc00k13
12. Kalovale
13. Sarah
14. sicnarf
15. Unauthorized Intruder
16. Holypie
17. DualReaver
18. Rayquaza2233

[PirateIzzy]

1. Corn
2. BTA
3. ShiKage
4. Jon
5. Kurtle
6. Nalek
7. MetaSeraphim
8. MasPan
9. Darkmaniak
10. ChaoticCJ
11. z0mgc00k13
12. Kalovale
13. Sarah
14. sicnarf
15. Unauthorized Intruder
16. Holypie
17. DualReaver
18. Rayquaza2233
19. PirateIzzy

[ElectricSix]

*Anticipates being the 1st one dead after Corn*

1. Corn
2. BTA
3. ShiKage
4. Jon
5. Kurtle
6. Nalek
7. MetaSeraphim
8. MasPan
9. Darkmaniak
10. ChaoticCJ
11. z0mgc00k13
12. Kalovale
13. Sarah
14. sicnarf
15. Unauthorized Intruder
16. Holypie
17. DualReaver
18. Rayquaza2233
19. PirateIzzy
20. ElectricSix

[Corn]

Gee, thanks ElectricSix.

[ElectricSix]

Lol well you can prove me wrong and die later than me. :P

[chrome]

Signups are closed. All participants have been PMed for Round 0. Please read the rules and understand them before Round 1 starts.

[Greg]

ben omg i didn't even see this thread

let me pray game

plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Corn]

GIMME MY SNIPER RIFLE I'M TAKING THOSE ALIENS HEAD ON!

SCREW FORTIFYING!

[chrome]

ben omg i didn't even see this thread

let me pray game

plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
no

ok yeah fine

[Blaine]

Add me in, I suppose. Lazy bastard.

[Link]

Inb4Idiefirstround.

[chrome]

Please read the rules in the game thread!

It's time to decide. The aliens seem very close to breaking their dormancy and the city needs to come to a decision fast. Many gather in the city square to protest their ideas; however "EXTRACT DATA FROM THEIR BRAINS" and "PPL ON SOUTHPERRY CANT READ" doesn't really help the cause ("EOS IS TERMINATOR HE'LL KILL THEM" sounds convincing though. I mean look at him, he's a robot). You all have to appeal to the council in order to come to a decision. Be aware that the decisions you pick will affect the pace of their advance as well as your own ammo supplies.

Your choices:

- Do nothing.
- Engage in armed conflict with the aliens.
- Begin to fortify the city's defenses.

Please respond to this PM with your choice.
I'll post the results of Round 0 here once everyone has voted. Please note:

- If it's a split decision, then all of you will publicly vote in this thread over the two that are split.
- If it's a split decision again, then by default you all do nothing and Round 1 begins.

[chrome]

Sorry for the delay. I have a life too, you know! Anyway, after tallying all the votes, there was a tie between engaging in armed conflict with the aliens and fortifying the city. There will now be a public vote in this thread on whether you all choose to attack or defend. The vote will take place over the course of three hours. Any votes after 10:00 PM PST will not be counted. Please vote in this thread.


Player|Vote
Corn|attack
BTA|attack
ShiKage|attack
Jon|attack
Kurtle|defend
Nalek|defend
MetaSeraphim|defend
MasPan|defend
Darkmaniak|attack
ChaoticCJ|defend
z0mgc00k13|nothing
Kalovale|attack
Sarah|defend
sicnarf|attack
Unauthorized Intruder|defend
Holypie|defend
DualReaver|attack
Rayquaza2233|defend
PirateIzzy|attack
ElectricSix|defend
Greg|nothing
Blaine|attack
TOTALS:
Attack - 10
Defend - 10
Nothing - 2

[Link]

[Vote] Attack

[Dual]

*picks up my shotgun*

Better get your pineappleing guns, cause we're going to go Di'ck Cheney on these aliens.

[vote] Attack

[chrome]

Oh yeah, please highlight your vote in your post because I'm lazy and I'm only gonna skim through all of them.

[Greg]

DEEEFEEEEEEENNNNDDDD

[ElectricSix]

[Fortify]

[Dual]

DEEEFEEEEEEENNNNDDDD

Greg since when do you act like a turtle

Where is your manly Monk pride?

[Holypie]

[Fortify]

[sicnarf]

Attack

Don't miss this post, Ben.

[Five Second Pose]

Fortify

It'll make our turrets do more damage and attack faster.

[ChaoticCJ]

[Fortify]

[xBTAx]

[Attack]

[z0mgc00k13]

fortify

[Nalek]

Defend

[MetaSeraphim]

[Fortify]

[Kalovale]

[Attack]

[PirateIzzy]

[Attack]

[Sarah]

[Defend]

[chrome]

The council has chosen to fortify the city.

On the afternoon of November 19th, the council made the decision to fortify the city before engaging in any conflict with the aliens. The city's automated defense systems were put on full alert. Eos, the city's mayor, offered access to the city's own ammunition vault, loaded with powerful weaponry that was near military caliber. A reward was promised to the one who fended off the most aliens--a desperate promise to make, for a desperate cause.

Twenty two brave souls volunteered to fend off the aliens. Corn, BTA, ShiKage, Jon, Kurtle, Nalek, MetaSeraphim, MasPan, Darkmaniac, ChaoticCJ, z0mgc00k13, Kalovale, Sarah, sicnarf, Unauthorized Inruder, Holypie, Dualreaver, Rayquaza2233, PirateIzzy, ElectricSix, Greg, and Blaine all put themselves on the line, not only to save the lives of thousands, but also in some hopes of getting a huge reward. That's all the people of Southperry ever cared about, anyway.

On the evening twilight of the same day, after taking necessary precautions to defend the city in the case of the failure of the military effort to come, Southperry mustered what arms they could and set off to form the best surround they could around the crashed spacecraft. The air reeked of an unfamiliar, unpleasant stench; the atmosphere remained nervous. Soldiers stood stock still, silent as they awaited the command to fire. As for the aliens, noises could be heard from the spacecraft...and they were getting louder by the second. Feet shuffled in apprehension. Palms were sweaty, knees were buckling, and the silence held strong until...

"FIRE!" the commander called. The gray evening sky glowed bright with muzzle flashes, the air heavy with sounds of gunfire and explosives. A cloud of dust remained long after the soldiers had unleashed their fire. It was silent for a long time. Reassured, the soldiers began to evacuate the perimeter after several minutes of surveying the charred alien ship.

Then they heard rumbles. Growls. Fearsome noises, all of which had to have been coming from one place--the ship. They were alive and--

"OH MY GO"--the helpless armyman's voice was reduced to hacks and gargles as one of the aliens plunged into his throat. Panic ensued. Limbs flew left and right as the merciless predators decimated their attackers.

Surveyors from the city looked on from a distance, petrified by the screams of their defenders. As night fell, the aliens became dormant again. They would come for the city in the morning.

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Aliens - 300,000,000 HP remaining

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Round 1 starts now. You will all be PMed shortly with necessary information. You have until 5:00 PM PST November 20th to submit your actions.

Player|Vote
ShiKage|attack
DualReaver|attack
Greg|defend
ElectricSix|defend
Holypie|defend
sicnarf|attack
Rayquaza2233|defend
BTA|attack
z0mgc00k13|defend
Nalek|defend
MetaSeraphim|defend
Kalovale|attack
PirateIzzy|attack
Sarah|defend


TOTALS:
Attack - 6
Defend - 7

[chrome]

For anyone confused about how to submit actions:

Say I want to steal 500,000 bees from Greg and shoot 500,000 of my own. I would say:

Shoot 500,000 bees
Steal 500,000 bees from Greg

And whatever Greg does will affect whether or not I can actually steal those bees from him. Also if anyone steals from me I'm pretty much screwed. Sorry if I overcomplicated anything. Also please reply to your PM with what kind of bee refinery you want; it can be anything as long as it's not super complicated, like a super mega awesome flamethrower bee refinery of doom that converts bees into pineapples and bobcats.

[Sarah]

By "refinery" do you mean weapon? So like, bee launcher, bee grenade, bee vibrator, etc?

[xBTAx]

"bee refinery"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk

[chrome]

Not exactly, a "bee refinery" converts bees into whatever projectile you want them to be converted into. Like say I want an ice bee refinery so my weapons will shoot ice bees. Or a poison bee refinery, etc.

Sorry for going out of my way to make this "authentic". I have to associate everything with a story. Also sorry for apologizing for everything.

[xBTAx]

re&#183;fin&#183;er&#183;y (r-fn-r)
n. pl. re&#183;fin&#183;er&#183;ies
An industrial plant for purifying a crude substance, such as petroleum or sugar.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk

Anyway... it's just flavor, right?

[chrome]

Update: Confused my own data and I just want to clear some things up. Like I said I came up with this and it's really just a prototype game, so it's not gonna flow 100&#37; smoothly. My first time managing anything like this and your first time playing it.

Right now, the aliens have 300,000,000 HP. The damage you do to the aliens will obviously decrease their HP and their decreased HP will carry on to the next round. So if you all collectively do 22,000,000 damage to the aliens now, they will start the next round with 278,000,000 HP.

As for actions: People still seem to be confused on what they can do and what the actions actually are.

- Shooting will shoot the number of bees you specify. People can steal the bees that you choose to shoot.
- Guarding will protect the number of bees you specify from theft. You can't shoot bees that you guard.
- Stealing will attempt to steal the number of bees you specify from someone else. If someone has bees open for theft equal to or greater than the amount you're trying to steal, you will acquire that number of bees and shoot them for points (They won't be added into your supply, they'll be converted directly into points). If someone has bees open for theft but it's less than the amount you're trying to steal, then you'll steal whatever they have open for theft but you won't get points for it, you'll just acquire the bees.
- Giving will give your bees to someone else. If the person you gave the bees to is shooting on his/her turn, you'll get points for however many bees you gave to him/her, but so will he/she. When someone tries to steal bees from the person you gave yours to, his bees take priority of being stolen. For example if you gave 5000 bees to someone who's shooting 6000 bees and a third person tries to steal 4000 bees, the second person's 4000 bees will be stolen but he'll still shoot your 5000 and the 2000 he has remaining.

I really hope that clears things up. Obviously this is more complicated than mafia or any other game that's on this forum so far.

[sicnarf]

If people don't get it, just do trial and error (and hopefully don't die :tongue:)

[Unauthorized Intruder]

So basically is:

Alien has 300m of HP
You can do 2 actions per turn.
how bees refined has no effect in damaging alien.

Order of calculation of remaining bees:

[Starting bees] + - [B]([stolen bees] - [unguarded bees]) - [shot bees(shot the given bees first)] - [bees given by you] = Remaining bees.

Correct?

[chrome]

Yes. Your 2 actions must be done at the same time, also. Like you can't shoot and then guard later, you have to shoot and guard simultaneously.

[chrome]

Round 1 was rough. People didn't exactly understand how to play the game very well, so I'll try to have it used as an example for future reference. For that purpose I'll post the spreadsheet displaying all user actions. The round won't actually be counted since 1. there were a handful of idle people and Corn would've been eliminated; that's not fair, since Corn submitted his actions, and 2. no one had a real general understanding of how to play

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7832677/alien&#37;20attack%20round%201%20results.png
Download (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7832677/alien%20attack%20practice%20round.xlsx)

[sicnarf]

People seem to like Sarah.

[Holypie]

I'm so confused, so I stole 250k bees from Jon successfully? Where did my 500k shot bees go? SO CONFUSED!

[chrome]

...oops. I accidentally put in that you got robbed of 500,000. Fixed.

[Sarah]

People seem to like Sarah.

I've got the recipe for MOLTEN BEES. Clearly the best place to go.

[xBTAx]

I've got the recipe for MOLTEN BEES. Clearly the best place to go.

I shoot guys made of bees. You just added fire; I gave them a literal hive mind.

[DeanNim]

Off topic guys but the fact that an alien related thread is created by ben is abit hilarious to me..

http://www.gamesben10.org/content/icons/ben-10-basketball-icon-1.jpg

[MetaSeraphim]

Sorry about not sending an action in, lost track of time.

[Kurtle]

Sorry about not sending an action in, lost track of time.

Same.

[chrome]

Okay well...anyway, I'll consider this just a practice round. The real round 1 will end at midnight tomorrow. In the interest of time, two people will be eliminated every round from now on. If you're idle you take priority of being eliminated. You will also not receive any additional bees the next round if you're idle and not eliminated. PMs will not be resent. Just refer to the ones all of you were sent initially.

Round 1: Ends at 11:59 PM PST November 21, 2010

Alien HP: 300,000,000

[MasPan]

Greg and I think alike. Spooky.

[Dual]

jon apparently shoots gays

:d

[Holypie]

He shoots gay bees.

[Corn]

Greg, you suck, I gave 1,000,000 ammo to you and you didn't shoot ANY of it.

[Greg]

Greg, you suck, I gave 1,000,000 ammo to you and you didn't shoot ANY of it.

That's fine.

[chrome]

Just a reminder that Round 1 ends in ~2 and a half hours.

[Corn]

Sorry if I'm too late Ben.

[chrome]

Really busy today, so I might have to come up with the story for Round 1 some other time. In the meantime, the results and rankings thus far:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7832677/alien&#37;20attack%20round%201%20results.png
Download (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7832677/alien%20attack%20round%201.xlsx)

rank|Player|total pts|variable|additional
1|Dualreaver|1,500,000|rd 1
1|E6|1,500,000|rd 1
3|Holypie|1,000,050|rd 1
4|ChaoticCJ|950,000|rd 1
5|MetaSeraphim|900,000|rd 1
5|sicnarf|900,000|rd 1
7|BTA|750,000|rd 1
7|Ray2233|750,000|rd 1
9|Jon|500,000|rd 1
10|Nalek|450,000|rd 1
11|DarkManiak|400,000|rd 1|error in spreadsheet, 0 remaining
12|U-A|300,000|rd 1
13|Sarah|250,001|rd 1
14|Kurtle|100,000|rd 1
14|MasPan|50|rd 1|error in spreadsheet
16|Greg|1|rd 1
17|ShiKage|0|rd 1|exempt
17|Corn|0|rd 1|idle, exempt
17|Kalovale|0|rd 1|idle, exempt
17|Blaine|0|rd 1|idle, exempt
21|z0mgc00k13|0|final|idle, chance elim.
22|PirateIzzy|0|final|idle, chance elim.


Round 2 starts at 5 PM PST (10 minutes from time of posting) and ends in 24 hours. Please submit your actions in the same fashion (But don't include what kind of bee refinery you want). To calculate your starting ammunition, please look at the posted image, take the number corresponding to your name under "remaining", and add 1,100,000 to that number.

[ElectricSix]

Lol nice. Grats on the tie for 1st Dual. :P

[MasPan]

Why was I not awarded 50 points for the bees shot by Holypie?

[chrome]

Why was I not awarded 50 points for the bees shot by Holypie?
Just fixed it in the table. I have to add points by ammo given in manually, and since everything else is calculated for me I get kinda lazy lol

[MasPan]

Just fixed it in the table. I have to add points by ammo given in manually, and since everything else is calculated for me I get kinda lazy lol

Yeah...let's put a stop to that right now. Don't host a game if you aren't going to put the effort in to judge it properly.

[PirateIzzy]

Why the hell am I dead?

[Corn]

Aw darn, I sent it late. Good thing I wasn't eliminated D=.

[chrome]

Why the hell am I dead?
If more than 2 people are tied for having the lowest points, I take into consideration how much ammo they have left. Since it was round 1 and there were five idlers who had 1,000,000 ammo and 0 points, I drew names out of a hat.

[ElectricSix]

Hmm, I'm having trouble figuring out how Dark's points add up. He stole 400k from Kurtle. Shot 700k. Didn't use 300k. I stole 1 mil from him. Wouldn't they negate his stolen ones and shot ones? Or would it negate the stolen and the unused ones? Or do the stolen ones autocredit no matter what you do? I'm just a bit confused, since obviously I had 500k stolen from me, which seemed to directly negate 500k from my point total. So shouldn't he have less than 1.1mil points? I dunno, maybe I'm missing something.

[Sarah]

Yeah...let's put a stop to that right now. Don't host a game if you aren't going to put the effort in to judge it properly.

Wow taking it too seriously much

[xBTAx]

Greg's point is amazing.

[chrome]

Right...he should have 400k. I'm gonna rework the calculations I put in for that spreadsheet, but for now I'll just change his score. If there are any errors point them out please.

[Dual]

Probably should have tried for a higher steal on you, E6. lol

[ElectricSix]

Lol I figured someone would, but I also thought they might hold back thinking I'd be playing conservative after the practice round. Thus, I went with well if it worked once, let's do it again, only even more. XP

[Dual]

Also, Greg is a fucking boss yeeeeah

[chrome]

Seriously guys? I have eight submissions out of 21 for round 2 and the round ends in 20 minutes.

[ElectricSix]

Err so we all just have 1mil ammo again? I thought it was increased some? If so by how much? I think you really should send out pms after each round detailing the info for the next round if you want more people to participate.

Edit: Thanks HolyPie, just found where it said that. Still think it's a good idea to send out pms detailing each round and reminding people the next one has started though.

[PirateIzzy]

Seriously guys? I have eight submissions out of 21 for round 2 and the round ends in 20 minutes.

Doesn't matter to me, I'm dead anyway.

[ChaoticCJ]

I totally forgot about this game...I just kept putting it off.

[Holypie]

Err so we all just have 1mil ammo again? I thought it was increased some? If so by how much? I think you really should send out pms after each round detailing the info for the next round if you want more people to participate.

No, we have however much ammo we had from last round plus 1.1m

[Shidoshi]

The game is so confusing!

[chrome]

Doesn't matter to me, I'm dead anyway.
Pray tell how else I should have eliminated idlers when there were five of you with nothing to weigh advantages over.

[Holypie]

Favouratism!

[Shidoshi]

Alphabetical order!
Ask your mother to choose one!

[chrome]

Seeing as only 12/21 people have sent in their actions, I'm waiting until midnight for the round to end.

[MetaSeraphim]

No, we have however much ammo we had from last round plus 1.1m

So I would have 2 million bees?

[chrome]

Round over.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7832677/alien&#37;20attack%20round%202%20results.png

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7832677/alien%20attack%20round%202%20rankings.png

Download (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7832677/alien%20attack%20round%202.xlsx)

Everyone who isn't dead, take your ammo remaining from the chart above and add 1,222,222 to it. Then submit your actions for Round 3. Round ends at midnight, November 25.

[Dual]

Why such a weird number of ammo Ben?

[chrome]

22,000,000 ammo distributed each round. Round 1 had 22 players, 22,000,000/22 = 1,000,000. Round 2 had 20 players, 1,100,000...etc.

[Sarah]

Last round I guarded 250,000 bees, how do I only have 1.1m this round?

so confu

[chrome]

...oops. Again.

>_> Give yourself those 250,000. This is all my fault for being clumsy with Excel.

[ElectricSix]

Err, how is Dark tied with me? He had 400k + 2.1 mil right? Isn't that 2.5 mil?

[Unauthorized Intruder]

Wait a sec. I have 300k ammo from first round and I got another 1.1m, so shouldn't I have 1.4m? Where does another 400k come from? >_>

[Manu]

I shot 1.1m I had, stole 1m, nobody stole from me. Remaining: 0?
shouldn't I have 1m?

[Sarah]

I'm dropping out. I wanted to support this game and you even though I wasn't 100&#37; sure of what was going on but 1. it's not fun for me and 2. you seem just as confused as the rest of us. I'm aware there's a learning curve for both players and the person running it but I just don't feel like you really care that much. Sorry, Ben.

[chrome]

I shot 1.1m I had, stole 1m, nobody stole from me. Remaining: 0?
shouldn't I have 1m?
Not quite. You shot that 1m you stole, so you end up with 0 ammo.

@Unauthorized Intruder: As I said it's an error in my Excel equation. If you see any errors just point them out, but the solution will usually be to add/subtract from what I'd erroneously given you.

@Sarah: I'll tell you a litle story about how this game came to be--I've been having to use Excel a lot for my Organic Chemistry class and I really had no idea how to use it, so I'm pretty much using this as practice. Not to say I don't care about the game, but it's just not the most important thing for me right now. I understand how you feel about this whole thing.

[xBTAx]

The main problem is that you (Ben) made the game rely on strategy...

But there are so many players that it might take, quite literally, weeks before that strategy actually does anything, which means it's very hard to see what is actually a good idea or not.

[Manu]

... If I shot the bullets I stole, then where are the ones I was given when the round started?

[Holypie]

Stolen bullets are automatically transferred to points.

[Sarah]

Just to be clear, you're still going to keep running this game right? I think you should keep going and refine it even if it gets messy. This round may blow but eventually this could be a fun game.

[chrome]

Yeah, I've just been busy due to Thanksgiving and the fact that I have a life...

Anyway, I've gone well over the stated end time for round 3 and I still only have 7 out of 18 actions in. If you notice an error in your ammo count don't hesitate to tell me. Just give yourself the ammo and tell me in a PM and I'll verify.