OT - Reddit CFB Risk Update 5/27 - Target on Our Backs
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.
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:
Got my third star this morning. Ready to up my contribution to the cause.
I am here to beg for Karma. My username on reddit is (NorthCampus2002) and I made some very "thoughtful" comments on this blog about conference realignment.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/8mhcip/conference_expansion_what_…
....trying to get my 2nd star to help the fight.
I’ll go upvote all your comments.
Thanks!
So is that how this works? Should I just be upvoting anyone with Michigan flair in every thread?
Everyone post in that Reddit thread then upvote every post from a Michigan fan!
That is what I do. I am upvote every Michigan comment everytime and am 8 upvotes away from 50 and that 2nd start.
I will do just that then
Looks like you're now over 50 karma, so you should have earned that second star!
Seems like a long way to get 500 karma for that next star, but one good snarky comment can net hundreds of karma.
https://www.reddit.com/user/NorthCampus2002/comments/
I’m BroncoJoe7 on Reddit - hope to see you around there.
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.
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.
I'm still confused on this "explore links" thing. It seems easy once you know what it is, but I can't figure out how or what links to explore.
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.
Done. Thanks.
I check every day for your updates.
JWG3 on Reddit.
Go upvote me please!! Trying to contribute even more to help win this thing.
Go Blue!
sure. link?
Form an alliance with Wisky and maybe Bama.
Just my $.02.
We already tried to flip Wisky and were rebuffed. Turns out their leader is getting bribes from other members of the Red Alliance, specifically free football tickets.
That’s wild
Getting Vetted as NorthCampus2002
That is b-s.
Got 3 stars. Orders are to defend ohio state. How distasteful.
Occupy Ohio State!
Knocking out chaos would be nice.
Discord: Hotel_Putingrad
I had the same problem. You should use: https://old.reddit.com/r/CFB/
Then go to the right and "select flair." Make Michigan your primary flair.
Wait..... American Hotel is Hotel Putingrad?!?!? /s
but how???
Use: https://vote.redditcfb.com/cfbrisk.php
Press the button that says Attack with the rocket ship next to it. At the top of the page, make sure you're not marked as a bot, so that your vote counts.
Click on the Toledo Rockets logo on the vote page.
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
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?
supposedly becomes your overall rating
I'm trying to understand....my Google skils are no good evidently...
They originally consisted of users of FCS and other non-FBS teams and started with Alaska as their home base and any other FBS teams that get eliminated have the option to fight for the team that controls their home territory or become a part of Team Chaos.
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.
Mods watching for karma farming yet every team is doing it (OSU and Wisc are two of the most obvious).
I got an mvp for defending I think it was buffalo yesterday but I didn’t get a star for getting an award?
MVPs don't count as awards. Those are contests on r/CFB that are nearly impossible to win.
Oooooohhhhhh. Thanks for the heads up.
OK, did as instructed,
URA!!!
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.
I had the same issue, but going through the old site I think I clicked the reset flair link and then was able to type Michigan in the text search field
You da man! Registered and playing. Go Blue!
Vetting post, as requested.
kwf4