OT - Reddit CFB Risk Update 5/27 - Target on Our Backs

Submitted by BlueSCar on

We again had another solid night as we continue to basically take whatever we want.  Things should get more difficult from here, however, as we now share a border with Nebraska.  In fact, we share borders with four Red Alliance teams now (Nebraska, Ohio State, Wisconsin, and Virginia Tech).  Florida continues to deal with its Chaos problem, but there is hope as Chaos is now down to just a single territory.  If Florida can defeat Chaos and break out like we did a week ago, things look much different for the Allied Powers.

 

 

We have also reclaimed our spot at the top of the leaderboard as us and Nebraska are now tied.  Only 14 teams remain as USC (ntUSC) was elminated last night.

 

CAVEAT:  Pretty much all data on the leaderboard is meaningless for one reason or the other, so take the "standings" and star/player totals with a giant grain of salt.

 

Please click the link below to get your assignments for the day.

https://michigancfbrisk.com/

 

Announcements:

The "Blue Alliance" has been re-dubbed the "Allied Forces" and now consists of Michigan, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Florida, and Texas.  If you aren't using the website to get orders, then please refrain from attacking any territories controlled by our allies.

 

If you are a relatively new reddit user, please check the game page to ensure that you are not being flagged as a bot. If you are flagged you will see a text box like the one below. If you are flagged as a bot, your turns will not assist our chances to win (although you can still accumulate turns so you can level up stars). If you see this box, then follow the hyperlink to fill out the survey, but ALSO message /u/bakonydraco directly on reddit to get the issue sorted out.

 

 

Instructions to Join:

 

To join all you need to do is go to reddit.com/r/cfb and create an account if you don't already have one. Next, set your flair to Michigan. You can do this by clicking "Select Flair" on the right side of the cfb subreddit. Finally, you can join and play the game at https://vote.redditcfb.com/cfbrisk.php

 

If you want to discuss the game in deeper detail and strategize with us, you can join our discord server found here: https://discord.gg/TcZBTcj. We usually announce plans of what we want to attack/defend in the evenings, but we discuss strategy all day. Be warned though, there will be a vetting process to join the discord as we have had some mole issues from OSU. Even if you don’t pass the vetting process, we can still provide less-secret instructions in the general chat so that you can still help us towards our goals until we can fully 100% trust you.

 

Go Blue!

 

Instructions as to how to play:

At the beginning of the game. Every team was assigned one single territory, and so every territory is now named after that team. When you go to select an action in the game, you'll see option such as: 

"Defend Buffalo", "Attack Penn State", "Attack Kent State".

This means that we border the location that was originally assigned to Penn State and Kent State. If you choose to attack Penn State, you will attempt to take that piece of land next round. Defend Buffalo, means that we currently own Buffalo's original homeland, and defending Buffalo means putting your stars towards keeping Buffalo from being taken.

After you submit what you're doing for the day, just sit back at wait! At Midnight EST all of the picks from all of the teams go in, and a random number generator selects a winner for each territory. Then it all happens again tomorrow. 

 

Full instructions/explanations are available HERE

 

Here's today's map:

 

jasgoblue

May 27th, 2018 at 11:31 AM ^

How does one get stars? I joined yesterday and followed yesterday and today's instructions. I have no clue what I'm doing but I'm happy to learn.

yigit

May 27th, 2018 at 11:40 AM ^

You get stars for:
1. How long you’ve been on reddit. (Out of your control).
2. How much comment karma you have. (Easy to get the first couple stars).
3. How many moves/days you’ve played the game. (Play daily and in 10 days you’ll get another star).
4. Any awards you’ve gotten...which I don’t think you can get if you haven’t already.
5. How many links you’ve explored. This one is easy. You can “explore” all 21 links in 5 minutes and get 5 stars.

wile_e8

May 27th, 2018 at 4:41 PM ^

The text saying the number of links explored is a link - click on it. This will take your to a page with a bunch of other links - click on *all* of them.

Congratulations, you have now explored the links.

reddogrjw

May 27th, 2018 at 7:39 PM ^

can we get another Michigan thread going where we can upvote each other?

 

I am at -89

 

I think people are attacking Michigan because of risk

 

I have 3 and 5 stars on 2 of my 5 star items but the other 3 are at 1 star

MaineGoBlue

May 27th, 2018 at 8:15 PM ^

I made the mistake of positing a logical comment on an OSU board... bud said. And how on earth do you get to two stars? I’ve got 2 categories at 4 stars. Do you need all of them to be 2 stars (aka be on for 90 days) until you get upgraded?

Ezeh-E

May 27th, 2018 at 8:24 PM ^

Mods are watching for "karma farming" and OSU can certainly find this page on our site. We're growing the largest army, and what matters most is being strong 20-30 turns from now. So just log on each day, make a few witty comments, and gain karma the old fashioned way. 20 turns from now we'll be full of 3+ stars.

Wulverine

May 27th, 2018 at 10:23 PM ^

Box on right says ADD USER FLAIR. I get a box that says "Select your community flair" and it says No flair selected. There is nothing there to add Michigan. 

 

Please advise.