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Whew, made it in, #37. Stranglers for the win!
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Two questions: 1) Do leftover points just sit there unused, or do they disappear, or do they get the % increase like last time? I can't remember what the decision was and I didn't see anything about it in the OP. 2) Am I not supposed to have any points available with which to customize my fighter at this time? I can't remember if that's normal or not. 
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As always, my goal is to die the most spectacularly pathetic death possible, see gently caress Rogers et. al. With that in mind, I AM READY LET'S DO THIS GIVE ME MY POINTS GO GO GO
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Jul 22, 2011 21:16
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Personally, I'd be happy with a smaller(!) 64-man tourney.
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Jul 22, 2011 21:19
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goatface posted:Pre-testing your build is tantamount to cheating. Pretesting your build is the coward's way! I haven't even downloaded the modified game and I am going to win something!
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Jul 22, 2011 21:31
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Burginator posted:I have never even installed dorf fortress, but I love the tourney. Hugh Mann will certainly win this tourney. I've never even heard of dwarf fortress, much less used a computer! I will destroy all competition.
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Jul 22, 2011 21:45
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Wow, we're over 70 entered fighters, and almost 200 registered/activated users. This is getting pretty big!
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Krysmphoenix posted:
That's why you should never pre-test your builds!
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An antwoman killed my first Krying Phoenix.
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Krysmphoenix posted:Err...uh...we're all screwed. You see, by pre-testing the build, you've set the viability of the fighter in stone. By not pre-testing my build, my fighter still has a chance to be viable, or even hugely successful! There's just no way to know. Now I sort of wish I'd made a weretiger named Schrödinger.
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Jul 23, 2011 04:57
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I take comfort in that fact--nay, I am relying on it! 
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Jul 23, 2011 05:15
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With that in mind, did you need me to run the betting for the battle royal round, like before?
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Jul 28, 2011 02:36
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Jimmy4400nav posted:Actually, my bet was for Binary Mary, not Crotch Rot, other than that though, awesome spread sheet. Fixed and fixed. code:
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Jul 28, 2011 07:43
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His name is BIGGS MANFIGHTER and he'll bite your noses off! Except for Maugrim and Bozikek, youse two are cool.
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Jul 28, 2011 22:54
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I got the email saying my dude wasn't set up. He is now set up. Ready to fail spectacularly (I don't expect to make it past round one but I suspect that if I do, it'll be...quite something.)
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Jul 28, 2011 23:20
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Arrhythmia posted:Actually, it's less of "a fighting chance" and more "guaranteed victory". I just run around a dozen or so battle with a Gremlin that had 1900 in every attribute that would affect battle, against a Yeti that had only 1000 in each attribute. Both of them would have steel long swords, and were otherwise unskilled. The Gremlin won every single battle, and didn't lose until I had two Yetis on a team against the little guy, and even then it was incredibly close. Was it the same gremlin, or did you reset every time? Because creatures learn EXTREMELY quickly in the arena, so if he survived the first couple matches intact, he was probably quite skilled by the end of it, as compared to the fresh opponents being brought in.
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Aug 1, 2011 21:35
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No, they used to be, but with the latest version, they are always the average for that race.
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Definitely true. I just know I made the same mistake early on in one of the other tournaments, testing a build I thought was amazing, but it turned out that the amazing part was just that it survived round one, became awesome at everything, and then stomped all over the competition I provided. (No, I'm not referring to gently caress Rogers, although I wish I had that excuse.)
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I don't know if it's possible, but if you want to try to ingest the historic betting records for the previous tournaments, I can certainly provide them. Otherwise, PM me and fill me in on your DB layout and I'll produce some sql myself. Just thought it might be fun to have the old stuff added in for history.
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e: f;b, however it was Ko that won, and Ko had the greater amount of money on him, making for a net loss. Unless the total amount of money on each fighter was precisely the same, and your bets were both the same, you did not break even. The calculation for how much you win is as follows: (amount you bet on fighter / total amount bet on fighter by everyone) * total amount bet on fight It looks like you bet $50 on each guy. The amount on each fighter in that fight was 2865 and 1797, for Ko and Goobert, respectively. That means you lost the $50 on Goobert, and won ($50 / $2865) * 4662 = $81. So that bet alone made you a profit of $31, but you spent an additional $50 for a net loss of $19. That is to say, you put $100 into that fight, and came away with $81 in your pocket.
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Aug 2, 2011 04:23
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Furthermore, if the underdog (as determined by crowd favorite based on betting) had won, you would have walked away with about $130. Of course, the optimal course of action is to just pick the winner outright. 
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Aug 2, 2011 04:33
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Jazzimus Prime posted:VVVVVV edit: Ko actually lost, but the way that I had laid out the Player Bet History charts, I actually made it look like the opposite had happened. I've changed the column order to be a bit more intuitive. VVVVVV Huh, weird. Okay then, good job, Jimmy, you gained $30 for straddling the fence. Also agree re: showing the payoff on the player/match bets pages. That would be hugely useful.
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Hey Jazzimus...I have one teeny tiny request for the betting interface. When looking at the match bets view, there's a lot of noise in the form of 0.00 dorfbux. Could you maybe make that text dark grey, black, or even just remove it altogether in that case? Otherwise, it's hard to get a feel for the bets on a fight without carefully reading each and every bet, and the associated amount.
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Awesome, thanks! Much easier to scan over now.
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If it's working as betting behaved historically, any new bets should be in addition to your old bets. So if you already had a bet of 500 and you place a bet of 400 on the same fighter, you now have two bets, one at 500 and one at 400, for a total of 900. That's how it's supposed to be, anyhow. All bets should be final and you can only increase the amount you bet on a fighter (by adding new bets.) As to whether it's actually doing that, or not, well... 
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A new request for Jazzimus: could you make it so it highlights ones own fights on the tournament schedule and bracket? The brackets are a lot bigger than I think we originally imagined, and it'd be nice to be able to just flip through real fast and find your own fights.
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Aug 12, 2011 20:57
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My strangler vs. kobold fight can really only go one way. I learned nothing from the travesty that was gently caress Rogers.
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Aug 13, 2011 03:53
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Iunnrais posted:Come on Kobolds! You can do it!! I hope not! 
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Aug 19, 2011 00:58
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Krysmphoenix posted:With the current betting system, I believe these bets are now impossible. You can still bet on both sides of a match. At least a few people already have this tournament.
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Aug 27, 2011 18:25
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Ramping it up somehow, of course, such as by staging the fight on a 1-tile-wide catwalk over magma.
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Aug 29, 2011 00:03
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I'm thinking of some sort of Dwarena Master, to generate random battle arenas similar to the Great Dworacle's challenges.
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Khisanth Magus posted:Also, since apparently you are allowing latecomers to join in the betting, any chance I could get in there? All you gotta do to join in the betting is to sign up on the arenachallenge.com website and start throwing your money around.
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Krysmphoenix posted:I wouldn't have believed it either. Holy poo poo. How many kobolds do I have to kill in testing to get that kind of luck? I don't think you quite grasp how luck works.
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I can still run betting for side-stuff if needed, although I don't think there'd be any prizes from it except bragging rights.
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PublicOpinion posted:Ha, turns out relentlessly soliciting bets for my opponent has propelled me to 5th in the gambling standings. Huh. Well, in that case, I'd like to point out that fight 52 has a rather lop-sided set of bets right now! Almost 2:1 odds, get it while it's hot!
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Maugrim posted:If you do want to move, I'm sure there'd be a home for you on goondorfs.net? Yeah, of course: any goon DF-related project is welcome. I can't promise we'd actually be any safer, though, really, and I doubt this is even remotely close to a normal occurrence.
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Krysmphoenix posted:Welp...I'm now 1-7 for Team Kobold. Hugs for Everyone seems to have pretty decent betting odds to win--wait a second? Bad Munki? You put 500 against your gladiator? Yep. It's the only way to get a sure thing. Either I win one way, or I win another. Don't much care which way it is.
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Holymotherofshitfuck HOW DID I WIN?Vox Nihili posted:Note: One (1) level of weapon skill does not cut it for a small fighter. Oh. That's how.  Honestly didn't expect that. Hell yes. I thought that with my build, I was basically doomed. Enjoy the money I bet against myself, supporters! It's your payment for believing in me.
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Halloween Jack posted:I don't think I've ever seen a grappling molemarian. I assume they could grab you while kicking you in the face repeatedly, like a pissed-off cat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCcK-QYJcSU#t=1m57s
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