OT - Reddit CFB Risk Update 5/13: OHIO STATE THREATENS
Thank you guys for your dedicated participation as of late. We have grown to the third largest team in the game behind only Florida and Nebraska!
With that said, yesterday was a small step back for us. Despite vastly outnumbering Ohio State in each of Syracuse, Buffalo, and Penn State they still managed to win based on sheer luck (stop me if you've heard that before) in each of those three territories. So tonight our gameplan remains largely unchanged. We need to continue to push OSU away from our stronghold in Maine.
Here are the official orders for today:
Birthday in January-March: DEFEND Umass
Birthday in April-June: ATTACK Syracuse
Birthday in July-September: DEFEND Army
Birthday in October-December: DEFEND Rutgers
Below are a few messages about recent updates with the game and instructions to join and play if you are new.
The creators of the game recently increased the aggressiveness of their bot detection to prevent the use of bots/alternate accounts. If you have created a brand new reddit account to participate in this game, then we need you to check the game page to ensure you don't see the message in below. If you see this, you are being flagged as a bot and your moves are not counting. Please DM reddit.com/u/bakonydraco to get the situation sorted out.
So follow the instructions and contact the r/CFBRisk mods if that happens. Also, the CFBRisk mods have indicated that they may start marking accounts as bots if they aren't "users on R/CFB". So we ask that in order to keep yourself eligible that when you go to vote everyday: just take a look at the CFB subreddit and make a post or two. There should be always something on the front page Michigan-related that you can drop a quick take on.
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
Just wanted to say thanks! You guys are making this way more fun. Here is to winning the offseason in many ways!
Agreed -- I finally signed up this morning, and it is way more interesting than I thought it would be. Any advice on how to increase my star rating is appreciated.
For some reason I am struggling to embed the images of the map.
Regardless a zoomed in picture of the northeast can be seen at the link above.
tell the mods they are pushing away new traffic.
I was flagged as a bot. messaged whoever I was supposed to and then went to post on threads. My comment was deleted and my account suspended for 7 minutes.
and defended Army
Don't forget to up your star rating by commenting on R/cfb, and clicking the links to explore. Upvote all fellow Michigan fans in all the threads so they get more karma and higher star ratings
Sunday Reddit posbang?
This advice goes against the rules of the game and reddit in general. Karma farming and voting manipulation can negatively affect the team as well as endanger your reddit account.
Being more active on r/cfb is welcome, though. Just don't change your voting habits (do not vote based on flair, etc).
Am I wrong that Team Chaos has to be the odds on favorite to win?
They most likely won't. Teams have passed them in users and total stars recently (including us). They also aren't organized at all and can't coordinate their moves.
They'll get stronger as the game goes on. The two alliances should probably come together to take them down, at some point.
For those interested, Michigan now has 1021 users for a total of 1342 stars. Ohio State has 596 users for 895 stars. It seems like Michigan is gaining steam however, as more users join.
https://vote.redditcfb.com/team_leaderboard.php
I read this: "If you simply explore all 20 links from the map page and then update your rating, you’ll jump right up to 3 stars!"
Here is a link to the 20 links: https://vote.redditcfb.com/explore_links.php
I "explored" all 20 links, and no change. Any suggestions?
where it tells you 1 star, click "links explored" from there and do it. not from the link on here... that's what worked for me
Click the update sub karma button to left of were it says maxed for your link clicking, then click the update rating button and refresh page. works for me every time
Note: users are saying you have to start here (not at the link I have above);
https://vote.redditcfb.com/cfbrisk.php
Click on the part that says "Links Explored" and then start exploring those links.
Same user name on discord
really dont understand how so many of my turns dont get registered. I have been playing forover a week but only 2 of my turns counted somehow. I clicked update and my move for today moved it to 3.. starting to feel like a waste of time
Did you follow the instructions on the game page and message /u/bakonydraco on reddit?
as ordered.
What did i do to deserve this?
I'm going to buy a new computer...someone get me off the ledge
my wife fixed it
idk my votes etc don't seem to be counting but then again only been on there a few times.
Same username on Reddit and discord. Signed up to both on this, please vet. Or if not I'll need to get on reddit I guess, just want to vote real quick and get back to work.
Discord user is MrElbel