Prisonner's Dilemma Reloaded (Over - Final Standings)

[Fishythefish]

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[Fishythefish]

@mod: there seem to be errors in the current standings.

Indeed. Apologies. This should have been fixed.

[Fishythefish]

Partner with SensFan

[Fishythefish]

I am certainly up for that pact.

The only reason I defected in the last round was that Sens told me he would be defecting in the final one. While people are happy to volunteer, so am I.

If anyone else says they are up for it, I'll volunteer with them too. If people don't say anything, I'll start by volunteering, and defect only if they do first.

[Fishythefish]

No we didn't! You never said anywhere that you were prepared to volunteer in 10.

[Fishythefish]

(Actually, I don't think I sent in Tit-for-Tat, I meant to send in "Vindictive" - defect forever after your opponent defects. Which makes exactly no difference.)

(Real comments coming soon)

[Fishythefish]

Thanks for modding, El. It's never going to be easy dealing with flaking in a game like this, and I thought your way of handling it was pretty good. It's obviously not ideal for chen to be playing a game against people who aren't scoring points, but it's much better than abandoning or having chen not score.

I liked the setup, but it struck me halfway through that the last round was potentially a bit flawed. Against a "Tit-for-Tat" strategy, it would be impossible to gain more than 4 points relative to your opponent. This means that unless two people went into the last round tied on points, whoever was ahead could just do that, and the other player would probably end up cooperating for most of it. I really thought the algorithm round would see large amounts of cooperation, and was surprised how it turned out.

It was kind of disappointing to be gifted so many points. Before yawe flaked, I was set to go into the last round 5 points ahead (assuming he started defecting after I defected), which would have been rather exciting.