scully Posted:

Shii – when plk and Bashy have difficulty medaling it is because they are part of a group that acts as an enemy group to other Dom klans.

And how is that? I realize I’m newer to the game, but I haven’t really seen us trolling. For at least myself, I’ve rarely engaged in that behavior, because I think that’s stupid. I have about 20 public Flamebate posts. So even if it’s true and BoD is some sort of clan who everyone hates because they’re oh-so mean and just total bumholes, everyone seems to be missing that I’m my own person and don’t care to interact in any negative capacity with anyone, for the most part.

As for chocolate scoops; if anyone’s still accusing me of getting way too many, I beg to differ. More and more people have been submitting forums and more people who care have upped their quality. We’re seeing a greater range to vote on, and seeing an end to the days of the “runaway forum” where one ends up getting as many as 200 upvotes by itself.

I have more forumbuildr score than ever, yet, I’m getting fewer chocolates than I ever used to. I win almost every week, yet I’ve been averaging only about 60 scoops a week even considering that, because of increased quantity and quality of competition, and how that results in any one person being less able to reap scoops. Basically, the exact effect I argued would at least a bit self-balance things, has come into play. I am not complaining.

Finally, Chocolate from buildr is not as strong as the other flavors. The reason even the people who have in the past got as many as 250 chocolate scoops (before others stepped up to the plate to compete) and those who actually WIN Fbduildr each week have trouble medaling is because, unlike the other colors, one cannot control at what times one gets chocolates. I become unable to hide behind the person in the scoop lead if I even play a few turns, very rapidly. Thus, while I’m eating, working, away or sleeping, I find that what happens is that scoops are added to my pile that I actually don’t want [at the time] and it attracts everyone’s stray bumholes, pretty much instantly wiping out my advantage.

Brackets are becoming larger and larger, so even a half hour of being in the lead by accident easily results in at least a couple bumholes being thrown one’s way, even those who can’t possibly have some sort of grudge.

I realize you’re still angry anyone has an advantage over you in any aspect, but you should realize it’s not particularly big for the effort devoted and addition to the game; and that you yourself surely have some skill or aspect of the game at which you have an advantage, too. The difference between us is that instead of whining and trying to have that advantage done away with, I try harder to improve at those aspects in order to compete.

I wish certain people would focus more on fixing the voting system for things like itembuildr and working on ways to make forumbuildr voting even more reliable, instead of holding up one or two people in the entire game as proof the system is broken, when even those tiny exceptions don’t have much of a lead, and in any event, that lead was built by effort and winning over hundreds of other submissions over the months.

—Bashy