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Happens surprisingly rarely from what I've seen.

It's very logical, actually. In a case of a strong evil purpler against an FFA of weaker players, each of the weaker players is interested in everyone else killing the purpler (and spending their strenght on it) while investing as little as possible themselves, as long as the total expenditure of strentgh is enough to bury the strongest player.

But the strong player knows this, so they will hide their strentgh to cause the weaker ones to misjudge how much power is needed to kill and finish them, and when it's worth it to invest more power into making it happen. This in turn means that

- Often the alliance of the free lobsters will not commit enough strength to eliminate the dark purple king of evil, because they misjudged how strong the evil purpler actually is.

- Often the alliance of the free lobsters will use enough strength to eliminate the evil purpler, but then fail to finish the job because in his diminished state, the dark king of purple evil doesn't seem like the stronger player on the map anymore - it's one of the other lobsters now! - so the alliance will crumble when the purpler is only diminished, but not killed.

Oh, so it is best for the weaker players to display that they are fully committed to going after the purple Anarchid?

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