moleculeman88 was a bit of an arse this game, as he ganged up on @Sparkles with seemingly no intention to win. I worry that the layout of the map encourages this type of FFA game.

@Sparkles kept complaining, but actually moleculeman88 spent most of the time and probably resources harassing me with artillery and napalm missiles, he spent only about a dozen kodachis on @Sparkles 15-20 mins into the game, then @Sparkles spent a large chunk of his army attacking him.

I saw the replay and couldn't figure out how to switch the highlighted team on the graphs. Clicking on units for different teams doesn't work there (it does for the top resource bars only)

IME, in FFA's both @Sparkles and moleculeman88 are implacably aggressive, while raaar oscillates between building Porculon Prime or being implacably aggressive.

Meanwhile Jasper always builds Griz into Paladin and generally plays arch-conservatively.

All in all, outcome is predictable without even having to watch the game :P

Do ppl get harassed for being high rank outside of the game?

What :O this is not fair people were in A game of FFA that is whoever is capable of defeating 4 opponents wins the game. But here sparkles is exxagerating like this that everyone gangs up on the best player in FFA it's bieng done on godde, on sparkles and on me too. frankly I know that zero-k has A promblem with ghosting with other players telling where the units are in game, how many storages they ahve and when they have nuke. this is A promblem comparing to this. When this happens to me that in FFA happens I don't care becuase it's just A game. two will gang up on u regardless in game becuase it's war and automatically happens.


I only apologize for the start of the game where I provoke my opponents and said it in A funny way which raar answer me knowing I was being funny with -_- face but not sparkles which answer me with F words and had no right to say that to me Geez !

frankly beside the differences here Zero-k can fix this and other which i will give asnwer.

1. punish system in xp in FFA lets the ai measure and see if it's says two players ganging up on one being by their tier and color of thier skin. and reduce the xp that is A fair punshiment. if the A.I. calcualtes and compare all other FFa it will se it will be the same regardless of the persucetion the player says it has will reward with extra xp ;D.

2. the other, me and sparkles won't play FFA anymore becuase she exxagerates too much an outcome and prefarbly avoid sparkles until cool down.

3. I will also add ghosting issue in which the player gives in game that she or he will not ghost and play fair that should be added too ;D by not wearing any microphones.

Attacking the strongest player in an FFA is in the interest of every other player because they each gain increased win chances from this - left unchecked and playing fair, the strongest player predictably wins.

Part of the job of this strongest player is to prevent their enemies from allying against them by creating tension between them: for example, proposing unevenly distributed costs of having to fight - e.g. by either simply effectively defending (which incurs cost on whoever attacks, but no cost on the freeriders), or by massively retaliating against a single another player.

These costs, if sufficiently uneven, leaves some of the other players open to being backstabbed, while the strongest player can go crying wolf about those who take the bait and go for the easy target - all the while preparing their ultimate secret weapon.

Of course, if this kind of things works, then you win, and become considered even more dangerous.

This kind of trickery is what makes FFA fun.

quote: P.s. Aquanim, with regards to your evaluation. Although the replay doesn't show molecule's history of harrasment towards me, it did show him making derogatory comments at the beginning of the match and that he was in that game to attack (or at least taunt) me from the start.

I inferred it from the comments which you both made. Like I said, I suspect that if you had not all-inned him, he would have continued to target you beyond the point where that was reasonable - but in this game you did not give him the opportunity, and then flamed him for it anyway.

quote: What :O this is not fair people were in A game of FFA that is whoever is capable of defeating 4 opponents wins the game. But here sparkles is exxagerating like this that everyone gangs up on the best player in FFA it's bieng done on godde, on sparkles and on me too.

quote: Attacking the strongest player in an FFA is in the interest of every other player because they each gain increased win chances from this - left unchecked and playing fair, the strongest player predictably wins.

What moleculeman appears to be missing and Anarchid has not made sufficiently clear is that "strongest" is conditional not only on player skill but on game state.

If in a 4-way FFA the third- and fourth- most skilled players all-in the most skilled player without giving any thought to the second-most skilled player before the most skilled player is dead, the second-most skilled player will almost invariably win (as happened in this game, more or less).