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Fix It 3+ way tie solution for INCIT - 'Sudden Death' round

-XI-

Avatar: 65028 2009-09-29 14:53:15 -0400
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Level 40 Troll

THEY'RE GONNA TASTE GREAT!

More often than not, I’m seeing rounds of INCIT being constantly thwarted by 3 way ties or more. Honestly, this is a waste of time to play if this problem keeps coming up every few minutes.

Here’s my idea – why not have the tied submissions put into a vote of their own if this happens and make it last something like 15 seconds with no disqualification if they don’t vote? If the users don’t vote anything at all on sudden death then the round ends with no winners.

Is this a good idea and easy to implement or not?

man-man

Avatar: 156485 2010-01-24 16:36:14 -0500
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[Harem and Sushi Bar]

Level 69 Hacker

Selfish fine upstanding member of society

Something like this would at least prevent the feeling that you’ve wasted your vote on one that did badly, when you could have voted for one in the tie to break said tie.

I’d file this under “Nice to have, but not an urgent/high-priority job”.

Fingerz

Avatar: 22863 2010-11-15 01:15:51 -0500
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[7 VIBRATING DOLDOES]

Level 35 Emo Kid

A neverhasbeen

It’s not a big deal. A new round starts immediately. Be funnier if you want to win instead of tie, imo.

Chawin

Avatar: 146808 2012-12-30 22:05:41 -0500
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[Deth Krew 2010]

Level 69 Hacker

Scared of death

Fingerz Posted:

It’s not a big deal. A new round starts immediately. Be funnier if you want to win instead of tie, imo.

even if youre funny you usually loose to dumpvotes

Shii

Avatar: 23167 2010-01-24 16:31:18 -0500
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[Phantasmagoric Spl-
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Level 35 Emo Kid

I haven't seen a bad idea that I didn't like.

Fingerz Posted:

It’s not a big deal. A new round starts immediately. Be funnier if you want to win instead of tie, imo.

Except “new round starts immediately” is an overstatement. Keep in mind every single friggin’ round takes 5 whole minutes. Last night we had 3 ties in a row at least once; that time starts adding up real fast. The game is too slow to allow for this much time to be wasted on ties.

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685

Avatar: 23493 2011-10-31 20:46:14 -0400
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[And The Banned Pla-
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Level 60 Emo Kid

The Delightfully Chaotic

Fingerz Posted:

It’s not a big deal. A new round starts immediately. Be funnier if you want to win instead of tie, imo.

funny-

adj. funnier, funniest

1. To cater to the lower tastes and desires of others

Fie

Avatar: 152207 2011-11-01 00:46:41 -0400
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[And The Banned Pla-
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Level 47 Camwhore

I want to see some real, live poop.

Obv. soloution is to make it so that h0g writes a backlog of INCIT enteries and they just deal those out 1 by 1 every INCIT round and have him win automatically.

Fie

Avatar: 152207 2011-11-01 00:46:41 -0400
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[And The Banned Pla-
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Level 47 Camwhore

I want to see some real, live poop.

Or we could just fix dumpvoting and see if this is still a complaint.

-XI-

Avatar: 65028 2009-09-29 14:53:15 -0400
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Level 40 Troll

THEY'RE GONNA TASTE GREAT!

Fie Posted:

Or we could just fix dumpvoting and see if this is still a complaint.

There is no known patch for the stupidity of the human mind.

Infact, I had another idea. Why not make it more harder for the round to fall into a 3+ way tie scenario. For example, you could give the users more than one vote, (lets say 3 for now) and let the laws of probability do the rest.

iostiogic

Avatar: 217288 2010-01-07 16:23:48 -0500
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Level 33 Emo Kid

“Zorba the Bleak”

I think there should be a Tie-Breaker Round.

mother ****ing ties are ****ing stupid as ****.

aksealman

Avatar: 207496 2009-12-07 23:06:30 -0500
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Level 43 Hacker

“Backdoor Bob”

iostiogic Posted:

I think there should be a Tie-Breaker Round.

mother ****ing ties are ****ing stupid as ****.

I agree if ties are stupid enough to have sexual intercourse with their mothers then yes they would be mentally challenged. You have not provided any proof that ties have sexual intercourse with their mothers so therefore until proof has been given I cannot believe your statement.

aksealman was banned for this post by spacekadt

iostiogic

Avatar: 217288 2010-01-07 16:23:48 -0500
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Level 33 Emo Kid

“Zorba the Bleak”

aksealman Posted:

I agree if ties are stupid enough to have sexual intercourse with their mothers then yes they would be mentally challenged. You have not provided any proof that ties have sexual intercourse with their mothers so therefore until proof has been given I cannot believe your statement.

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Cydher

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that picture was terrible, in my defence. the ties are piling up tonight like mad.

ChilePepino

Avatar: 101005 2010-01-24 16:17:40 -0500
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[Full of SbumSS]

Level 35 Permanoob

Well, spf357 really rocks.

bunch of noobs itt.

Bait n Bludg-
eon

Avatar: 156407 Mon Mar 16 22:49:33 -0400 2009
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[Temple of the Anth-
ropomorphic Majesty
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Level 69 Troll

“Human Yeast Infection”

I agree there should be something to deal with ties, and this idea might work.

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Things like this should be avoidable.

drussthebrit-
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Avatar: 61156 Fri Jan 09 16:01:01 -0500 2009
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Level 68 Troll

Finest upstanding member of society, ever!

-XI- Posted:

Infact, I had another idea. Why not make it more harder for the round to fall into a 3+ way tie scenario. For example, you could give the users more than one vote, (lets say 3 for now) and let the laws of probability do the rest.

This

Zeta

Avatar: 68174 Wed Oct 22 15:55:08 -0400 2008
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[Forumwarz Speakeasy]

Level 51 Troll

“eBaum”

So your solution to wasting time with ties is to waste more time doing a tiebreaker? That would mean games go from lasting 5 minutes to however long the tiebreaker is for. If it’s set up so people just vote on the same pictures again, everyone’s just going to vote for the one they voted on before, and you’ll get the same result. And if you have the tiebreaker be the tied guys re-doing their picture, that’s another 2-3 min. wasted, and the only difference between that and a normal round is nobody else but 3-4 people can participate.

Bad idea, imo. The whole “let people get more than 1 vote” thing is awkward too, because if you can vote for the same picture more than once, everybody with alts is just going to log on using another browser/proxy/whatever and dump all their alt’s votes into their picture. (Unless ET fixed that in the months I’ve been gone, which is entirely possible.) If you can’t vote a pic more than once, everyone’s just going to dump vote into ****ty pics, which puts us back at square 1, except now there are more votes.

iostiogic

Avatar: 217288 2010-01-07 16:23:48 -0500
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Level 33 Emo Kid

“Zorba the Bleak”

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Idea UNO:

I Propose that there be some kind of incentive for voting on the winning poster. This would hopefully stop people from dump voting.

Giving out scoops to voters would skew the value of winning, Maybe you could win some FLEZZ for voting on the winning poster.

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Idea DOS:

Giving voters 2 unique votes.

This would slightly weaken dump voting, because there are more posters receiving votes.

This would slightly weaken the occurrence of ties, because there are more voting outcomes(i know this because of my learnings of MATHS).

SanDyk

Avatar: 175636 2012-01-01 09:50:12 -0500
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[Grey Goose Mafiosi]

Level 69 Troll

I am the internet equivelent of Jon Stewart! Except less funny...

iostiogic Posted:

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Idea UNO:

I Propose that there be some kind of incentive for voting on the winning poster. This would hopefully stop people from dump voting.

Giving out scoops to voters would skew the value of winning, Maybe you could win some FLEZZ for voting on the winning poster.

I don’t get how this will stop dumpvoting. “Dumpvoted posters” can still be “winning posters”

Skyman747

Avatar: 115546 2015-08-12 18:58:09 -0400
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[Harem and Sushi Bar]

Level 69 Hacker

DIRTY ****ING fine upstanding member of society woman's genitals

Best way to solve ties: 2 random winners chosen. INCIT rounds are already too long, no need to make them even longer, and at least this way you at least have a chance of winning instead of just wasting 5 minutes (or however long rounds last) of your life.

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