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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby greenoaks on Tue May 24, 2011 7:14 am

gingerswimmer wrote:*gets out really old box of risk* says it right here

can you upload an image of it
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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby gingerswimmer on Tue May 24, 2011 7:49 am

yeah i have the risk book in my hand how would i go about putting it on here?


soz im stupid :P



oh and ive just looked its the 2000 version...............so not that old, but still not new :oops:
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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby SirSebstar on Tue May 24, 2011 8:23 am

gingerswimmer wrote:yeah i have the risk book in my hand how would i go about putting it on here?

soz im stupid :P

oh and ive just looked its the 2000 version...............so not that old, but still not new :oops:


can you like give a version number or anything. Risk 2000 is the version where you have to use a trecking system right? got missles and such? nothing at all compared to the you know original risk system right?
Give me a page number and version number please, as well as who made the booklet(hasbro or another) and whatever identifieing information you can give me.

can you perhaps literally quote the section you are refering too, i keep comming back that you must have misread/misunderstood the text
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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby gingerswimmer on Tue May 24, 2011 8:30 am

its the hasbro (with a parker logo on the front as well) MADE in the year 2000 version, its got a napolionic feel to it with cannons, musket infantry and cavalry, the rule book i have is in blue and white page 10 says
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"the number of dice thrown by the defender is 1 or 2 depending on the number of battalions he has in the territory being attacked:

No. of defending battalions...............................No. of dice thrown by defender

1............................................................................1
2............................................................................1
3 or more...............................................................1 or 2
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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby SirSebstar on Tue May 24, 2011 8:44 am

I cant find any reference to such a game. I need a title, language and more. darn i thought i had all the versions on my vingertips, but it sounds like castle risk, or a variant i never heard off.

risk 2000 http://www.scribd.com/doc/23317986/Risk-2000

the original rules: http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/risk.pdf
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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby gingerswimmer on Tue May 24, 2011 9:58 am

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that is the game cover

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that is the rule book cover

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that is the section on defending dice, sorry about the blur i have a crappy phone, but if you look close you can see the box with the number of dice in
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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby SirSebstar on Tue May 24, 2011 10:00 am

wicked shots. good enough for me. i am stumped now..
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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby greenoaks on Tue May 24, 2011 10:20 am

gingerswimmer wrote:No. of defending battalions...............................No. of dice thrown by defender

1............................................................................1
2............................................................................1
3 or more...............................................................1 or 2

this doesn't make sense to me. if you could throw 2 dice to defend why would you chose to limit yourself to 1. your chance of equalling or bettering the attackers dice rolls are much better with 2 than 1 roll.
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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby gingerswimmer on Tue May 24, 2011 10:31 am

if you only roll 1 dice you only lose 1 troop, depends on what the attacker rolls and if he/she rolls before after or the same time as you
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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby greenoaks on Tue May 24, 2011 11:05 am

gingerswimmer wrote:if you only roll 1 dice you only lose 1 troop, depends on what the attacker rolls and if he/she rolls before after or the same time as you

i have never played Risk.

do you not roll at the same time ?
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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby gingerswimmer on Tue May 24, 2011 12:04 pm

depends on what type of rules you are going by, i have always played it as rolled at the same time, but different people have different ways they play, and the amont of dice they use :oops:
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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby kabuki.mono on Tue May 24, 2011 8:34 pm

I've played it the way gingerswimmer is talking about. It just means that when you have a small amount of troops, instead of instantly rolling 2 or 3 die while defending yourself, you can roll one and if it turns out wrong you can still maintain the few troops you have left, instead of rolling more dice with the possibility of loosing troops you need.

I'm not convinced it would work on here though. that's very board gameish - same as Rol style where you use percentage dices, etc.
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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby SirSebstar on Wed May 25, 2011 8:46 am

kabuki.mono wrote:I've played it the way gingerswimmer is talking about. It just means that when you have a small amount of troops, instead of instantly rolling 2 or 3 die while defending yourself, you can roll one and if it turns out wrong you can still maintain the few troops you have left, instead of rolling more dice with the possibility of loosing troops you need.

I'm not convinced it would work on here though. that's very board gameish - same as Rol style where you use percentage dices, etc.


it is a rare rule variant for the UK in the 1990ish. It favors the attacker even more... its not needed here. also, here all dice are thrown at the same time. in the uk version there was also mention of throwing it at the same time. Other variants allowed for more discretion on the defenders part. this increased the odd for the defender. that last part is not going to happen here, since nobody wants to be online to make the call on 10k vs 10, for every single attack
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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby natty dread on Wed May 25, 2011 10:33 am

How would that even work here? In most games in CC, the defender is not present when the dices are rolled, so how would he even choose whether to roll 1 or 2 dices?
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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby SirSebstar on Thu May 26, 2011 3:17 am

natty_dread wrote:How would that even work here? In most games in CC, the defender is not present when the dices are rolled, so how would he even choose whether to roll 1 or 2 dices?


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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby kabuki.mono on Thu May 26, 2011 7:23 am

SirSebstar wrote:
kabuki.mono wrote:I've played it the way gingerswimmer is talking about. It just means that when you have a small amount of troops, instead of instantly rolling 2 or 3 die while defending yourself, you can roll one and if it turns out wrong you can still maintain the few troops you have left, instead of rolling more dice with the possibility of loosing troops you need.

I'm not convinced it would work on here though. that's very board gameish - same as Rol style where you use percentage dices, etc.


it is a rare rule variant for the UK in the 1990ish. It favors the attacker even more... its not needed here. also, here all dice are thrown at the same time. in the uk version there was also mention of throwing it at the same time. Other variants allowed for more discretion on the defenders part. this increased the odd for the defender. that last part is not going to happen here, since nobody wants to be online to make the call on 10k vs 10, for every single attack


Agreed.
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Re: Better dice suggestion

Postby TheForgivenOne on Thu May 26, 2011 12:56 pm

Alright, there are too many flaws in this suggestion, and it won't be implemented. Rejected
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less random dice

Postby SuperGoogleman on Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:30 pm

Dice. We have all moaned about them, we know they are random. but sometimes it seems random is just not good enough. streaks destroy the game.

So im wondering if it has ever been suggested to introduce 'less' random dice. i know your probably thinking wtf is he talking about. I mean investing in an algorithim in which it is random but with an influence from previous rolls, whereby the 'unevenness' of previous battle outcomes is proportional to the influence on the next roll. It could be done on the last x number of rolls or the rolls taken in the last x amount of time.
streaks are still possible, but they become much less likely.

Im aware lots would be against the idea, but the severity of the influence could be minimised so only extreme periods of biased battle outcomes begin to have an effect.

If done correctly it would have no overall impact on dice stats, but would make those mornings where you literally lose 20 games in a row purely because the dice didnt even give you a chance a much rarer occurance.
And hence it would also decrease the number of games in which you lose bec
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Re: less random dice

Postby IcePack on Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:33 pm

I'm guessing they already use this. That's why it all evens out so perfectly in the end, and don't see many (any?) major variations.

You get hugely bad / good dice, keeps going for awhile. The algo kicks in eventually and swings it largely in the opposite direction "balance" the shitty / good dice out.

On avg over time it looks great, but those streaks are a bitchhhhhhh. I believe it's caused by the very thing ur proposing.

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Re: less random dice

Postby SuperGoogleman on Wed Sep 14, 2011 2:44 pm

IcePack wrote:I'm guessing they already use this. That's why it all evens out so perfectly in the end, and don't see many (any?) major variations.

You get hugely bad / good dice, keeps going for awhile. The algo kicks in eventually and swings it largely in the opposite direction "balance" the shitty / good dice out.

On avg over time it looks great, but those streaks are a bitchhhhhhh. I believe it's caused by the very thing ur proposing.

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Interesting. I didnt consider that.

.... i wonder
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Re: less random dice

Postby TheForgivenOne on Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:16 pm

:-s Wut?

Or maybe that's percentages evening out after tens of thousands of rolls?

I personally don't like it, there are streaks in the real world of Risk! (Trust me, i've seen them), so I don't know why they shouldn't be on here.
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Re: less random dice

Postby chapcrap on Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:00 pm

TheForgivenOne wrote::-s Wut?

Or maybe that's percentages evening out after tens of thousands of rolls?

I personally don't like it, there are streaks in the real world of Risk! (Trust me, i've seen them), so I don't know why they shouldn't be on here.

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You just have to learn how to overcome the streaks.
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Re: less random dice

Postby SuperGoogleman on Thu Sep 15, 2011 12:48 pm

yeah streaks are in the real world, but your forgetting that this wont rule out streaks, just make them way less common, because they are a bit to common.

Taking a complete stab in the dark here but if you to ask everybody why they left cc, id say
number one being they were just briefly checking it out the site and didnt enjoy it,
number two, 4 games was not enough and they were not willing to pay 25 dollars
***number three, fustration at dice.***

More customers means better gameplay for all us, so making the dice more paletteable may be in more peoples interest than you may realise.
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Re: less random dice

Postby Metsfanmax on Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:12 pm

The numbers from random.org are thoroughly vetted to ensure randomness. As a result of that, streaks do not occur more often than they ought to according to the rules of probability. You are essentially saying that you don't like that real randomness allows for such streaks, and you want us to do something about it. Well, we're not going to alter the dice to make them less realistic, and if that causes people to leave, so be it. We've seen throughout the years on CC that no matter how we change the dice system, people will always complain and threaten to quit. That would probably happen in response to this suggestion being implemented as well. I think we just need to take dice complainers as a constant source of unrealized income, and leave it at that.
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Re: less random dice

Postby chapcrap on Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:31 pm

People get mad because they have bad dice. People get mad because opponents have good dice. I don't know how you expect to even it all out. People will always get frustrated at the dice.
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