OT - Reddit CFB Risk Update 5/11: WE'RE SHIPPING UP TO BOSTON (COLLEGE)
As always, thanks everyone for your contributions to the war effort. We had an ANOTHER amazing night last night. We kept/maintained every single one of our primary goals: UMass, Syracuse, Army and Buttgers. We are now very close to solidifying a chokehold in the Northeast. We also managed to maintain Ann Arbor. We had ANOTHER enormous jump in power/users yesterday because of you guys.
We're by far the fastest growing team in the game. And hey let's compare ourselves to OSU.
We now significantly outpower them after being weaker than them for most of the game. A LOT of salty OSU fans have been complaining that we've been creating bots. But we know that's its because you guys.
We are encouraging any users on here that have been attacking anything in Michigan or Ohio to send your resources to the Northeast. You can directly help by defending any of our current territories in the NE (Rutgers, Army, UMass which are at threat from Clemson) or attacking any enemy territories bordering them. In particular, we want you guys to hit the territories "Boston College" and "UConn" HARD. If we take them, we will have grabbed the corner of the map and have finally accomplished our first goal in the game.
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.
Additionally, we have formed "The Blue Alliance" with Florida and Georgia Tech. If you would like to meme about this, go to: www.reddit.com/r/CFBRisk/
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
Map as of 5/11:
And a close up of our region:
This just caused me to create a reddit account. I have avoided that for years and years because of the fear that it will consume all of my time and productivity (I spend enough time on reddit even without an account). If that comes to pass, my life falling apart will rest on your shoulders Reegs.
Just got the message on discord - ready to join the strategy chat!
I am confused, is this how I am supposed to set the flairs to select the team and how to attack? https://www.evernote.com/l/AET4zi-UF4VPXZ_Wm-EfZxzcsE4OMNqHiWs
Thanks done!
Big jump on number of players for Michigan, now at over 900
Discord name kgoblue01
On Discord as PoseyHipster.
Username is madurham07
superjay
posting here for /u/nbryson625
I just joined up. This looks like a lot of fun and I'm on r/cfb a lot. Attacked BC with the rest of you. Le
Airborne1SG is my name and attacked BC. Will join discord as well
Keep it up!
You are an OSU mole. Why do you keep posting here lol
Once Team Blue, always Team Blue.
For everyone that has created a new reddit account to participate in this game: Please visit the game's home page and look for a message similar to the one below. There has been an issue with bots and alternate accounts across the board and as a result the mods have become more strict in flagging suspicious accounts as bots or alts. Meaning that new users are at a higher risk of being wrongfully flagged.
BTW, the guys over at Reddit have already adopted a nickname for users joining from this discussion board--the "MGoHorde." Baiscally large volume yet low power (since many of us are new).
The way to maximize that is through efficient communication/strategy. Otherwise we end up throwing way too many bodies at a territory than necessary.
So, once you sign onto the game & pick Michigan flair, the next big thing you can really do is get vetted & confortable using that Discord app/chat.
Once you go through all that trouble & actually get vetted by the Discord guys to check out the specific orders/strategy, please make a point to LOG your intentions!!
The faster certain territory assignments fill up on Discord (and the only way we can know for sure is people log their intentions), the more quickly/efficiently we can re-allocate the overflow to an under-served territory or possibly expand our ambitions for that turn.
Otherwise we run the risk of just totally nuking one or two territories while either falling short in others and/or missing an opportunity to pick up an extra territory.
And we do want to avoid getting too specific on MGoBlog. Lurkers/spies are everywhere.
Need more defense.
Discord user: pfholland
Discord: Kewaga
Discord username: swolf81
Discord user: S.D. Jones