OT - Reddit CFB Risk Update 6/13: Another Record Night
Yesterday we beat the our previous record of active users! We clocked in at 1343 unique players in last night's round. The second most active team is Florida with 633 unique players. Please keep up the participation everyone! There was also a minor game update. The mods locked people's /r/cfb karma meaning that you cannot rank up by acquiring karma (upvotes) on /r/cfb. So now all you have to do everyday is visit our orders website and make your action. That's 2 minutes tops per day.
Moving to the actual results now... We netted one total territory yesterday and are in 3rd place with 18 total territories. Florida is in 1st with 26 and Nebraska is in 2nd with 22. Wisconsin has had unbelievable luck the last 3 days in defending the state of Michigan from us. Eventually that fortress will fall and we will feast in the state of Michigan. Meanwhile, Florida is thriving in the south, Georgia Tech and Clemson are in a battle with OSU on the Atlantic Coast, and Texas is helping hold of Nebraska with Florida.
Steps To Play Every Day:
- Sign up for a reddit.com account if you don’t have one already
- Visit https://flair.redditcfb.com/ " go to “find by conference," click “FBS” then “Big 10” and finally “Michigan” to set yourself as a member of our team. Click “Update Flair” to set it.
- Visit https://michigancfbrisk.com/ and click “Get Order!”
- Click the blue chessboard beneath the logo that you’re meant to attack/defend to take you to the game.
- Scroll down, now, and on the right hand side of the screen, you will see the options that you can attack or defend. Click the school logo that you were assigned to
Do not ever attack any territory that is owned by one of our allies unless specifically told to do so in your orders. Our allies are Clemson, Florida, Georgia Tech, and Texas. If you get an order to attack an ally owned territory then it means we are coordinating with them, so it is acceptable. Otherwise, do not attack allied territories or defend territories that allies border please!
Make sure you aren't flagged as a bot
One potential issue with the influx of new users we had is that some players may have been flagged as a bot and therefore their actions may not be counting. If you are flagged as a bot you will see the image below on vote.redditcfb.com
If you are seeing that message follow the steps below, otherwise you can ignore this.
- Follow the link shown in the screenshot above and fill out the google form
- Wait at least one day for the text box to disappear. If it does disappear, you are all set.
- If the bot disclaimer message persists after one day, then message the mods of /r/cfbrisk directly. You can follow the link in step 4 below to do this in one easy click.
- https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2FCFBRisk&subject=&messa…
- Be patient as the mods of the game are busy and they are putting a lot of effort into running this thing.
Daily Map:
Okay.. Take 3.
FYI, that looks like yesterday's map
Wow. What is going on with me. Let's try four the fourth time! This is the correct map.
man, I just got to 50 Karma too! argh.
btw, how do you tell what the probability was for each territory?
On the site, if you click on a territory, and click "Day 44" you can see everyone who selected to attack/defend the territory. From there, it's simple math based on how the stars are weighted.
To clarify, "Day 44" will get you last night's individuals. Previous days will get you previous days' individuals.
Awesome! Thanks! I don't suppose there is an easy way to calculate the probability of one team winning that territory? It would take awhile to count all those stars!
There is...in the Discord site. For example, last night, Ohio State had a 3% chance of winning WKU.
And they won it.
RNG giveth, RNG taketh.
Which discord site?
If you click on the little purple speech bubble icon that's in the middle after you get an order, it will take you to the discord. You might have to create a discord account if you don't already have one. From there we can get you vetted and into our group discussions, where we have some tools to analyze results and keep track of how many users have gotten orders.
Feel like you're going to have to unite the forces soon.
Friends, keep getting your orders from https://michigancfbrisk.com/ and submitting those orders to the game. I have a strong feeling that we can achieve greatness if we keep our numbers up. All the battles are probability-weighted so it takes a few turns to really see big changes on the map due to our newly embiggened army.
Capture and hold Madagascar and you win at Risk.... at least that's how it worked in the old days.
you never won risk did you? Whoever wins South America usually wins the game if not S.A. than whoever won North America. If N.A. and S.A. make a truce the game is over for everyone else pretty quick.
australia was a good stronghold too, that's where i usually tried to start
Why have I been getting orders to attack teams that no longer have territories? I've been ignoring that and attacking OSU...
you are attacking the territory that is assigned to a team, regardless of who currently owns it
so the other day I attacked Louisville when OSU held it
I had to choose attack Louisville so it knew which OSU held territory I was attacking
need to follow the orders
Don’t ignore your assignments. Each territory is named after a team and each team is only named after one territory each. By attacking OSU every time, you’re attacking the same territory over and over. OSU may not even control that territory!
Ok. I only recently started ignoring, but I'll resume following my orders again.
Good to hear it soldier. The fight will be won.
I'm looking forward to hearing the lamentation of the women once we conquer Michigan!
As requested, my discord username is Volty23
it still thinks i'm a bot :( but it hasn't been a full day since i filled out the form, so I will be patient for a little while longer...
Some general questions (from someone that has just been blindly following orders):
- How does michigancfbrisk.com determine orders?
- Can we see what "rolls" occur each night? (the equivalent of dice rolling in Risk)
- Is there a more thorough explanation to how the game works?
There is a group of folks (I am not one of them) who are planning the strategy for Michigan. They input orders into the website each day for distribution to you!
There's a lot of math and discussion going on by the mods over on the discord server. They'll tend to be welcoming of well-reasoned suggestions as to how to distribute players.
Mod here! Let me try to answer your questions:
1) Michigancfbrisk.com is a creation by our very own BlueScar, who is a whiz with technology. Basically, on the back end we mods discuss (with some input from the masses and allies) and assign the expected stars in the proportion we want. The website then does some calculation based on the orders its given out already and the distribution we want and gives you your selected order. This is why it's important that everybody follow their orders, as each order is dependent on the other orders already given out.
2) If you want an in-depth look at the "rolls" on each territory, click on the territory on the map, then scroll down and click on the logo for the day you want to see. For instance, if you want to see the bad luck we had in Toledo last night, click on it, then click on Day 44. From there you can see a list of users and stars from all teams that voted on that territory, with the randomly-selected MVP (to determine the winning team) at the top.
3) The (somewhat updated) rules to the game can be found here: https://vote.redditcfb.com/rules.php. It's not the most straightforward explanation but it explains the general mechanics of the game.
The day I get my 5 star status they lock it so I'm stuck at 4 :(
My instructions say Defend Notre Dame but there are only two choices to defend at bottom right, neither being Notre Dame
Are you sure you have Michigan flair on r/cfb? We should have way more territories to defend than that if you are actually on the team.
I hadn’t saved my Michigan flair, thanks!
how do you see how each territory pans out every night?
You can click on the territory shortly after midnight to see how many actual stars were assigned to the battle. About 12:15, the results are available. The map updates shortly thereafter.
discord name is fly_the_w
Good news, bad news on twitter the karma freeze. Bad news is I’ll only ever be a 2 star in this game. Good news is I can go back to not reading reddit.