Prisonner's Dilemma Reloaded (Over - Final Standings)

[Fishythefish]

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

[AurorusVox]

People. You cannot trust Chenshi. In the previous round, when he was way at the bottom, I told him, "You defect, I'll volunteer. We'll be on the same number of points. We can move forwards together!"

Notice that the first action I did in the game was give Chenshi level points with me. And now he defects.

I am the only trustworthy player in this game. You cannot trust Chenshi's word. You can only trust mine. Cross your fingers and hope you get partnered up with me. Together, we can show them, that trusting each other is the only way forwards.

[Elscouta]

Round 3 Pairings!

SensFan vs chenshi
Animorpherv1 vs AuroruxVox
Fishythefish vs yawetag

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No more discussion! Please send me your choices asap.

[Elscouta]

I'm missing chenshi choices.

[Elscouta]

Chenshi has been prodded yesterday, and has 24 hours to send choices or he will be replaced.

[Elscouta]

Round 3, Turn 1 Results!

SensFan :

Defect

(+10)
chenshi :

Volunteer

(-10)

Animorpherv

Volunteer

(+5)
AurorusVox :

Volunteer

(+5)

Fishythefish :

Volunteer

(+5)
Yawetag :

Volunteer

(+5)

Current standings :

Fishythefish : 50
yawetag : 45
SensFan : 35
chenshi : 15
AurorusVox : 10
Animorpherv1 : 5

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New pairings, but already first blood...

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All the players included a default choice for the next round. I'll still wait 24 hours if some of them wish to change.

[Elscouta]

Round 3, Turn 2 Results!

SensFan :

Defect

(-5)
chenshi :

Defect

(-5)

Animorpherv

Volunteer

(+5)
AurorusVox :

Volunteer

(+5)

Fishythefish :

Defect

(+10)
Yawetag :

Volunteer

(-10)

Current standings :

Fishythefish : 60
yawetag : 35
SensFan : 30
AurorusVox : 15
chenshi : 10
Animorpherv1 : 10

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Defection is spreading...

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All the players included a default choice for the next round. I'll still wait 24 hours if some of them wish to change.

[Elscouta]

Round 3, Turn 3 Results!

SensFan :

Defect

(-5)
chenshi :

Defect

(-5)

Animorpherv

Volunteer

(+5)
AurorusVox :

Volunteer

(+5)

Fishythefish :

Defect

(+10)
Yawetag :

Volunteer

(-10)

Current standings :

Fishythefish : 70
yawetag : 25
SensFan : 25
AurorusVox : 20
Animorpherv1 : 15
chenshi : 5

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All the players included a default choice for the next round. I'll still wait 24 hours if some of them wish to change.

[Elscouta]

I'll be away for this week end. The game will resume Monday.

[Elscouta]

Just for information, I haven't forgotten about you. However, I'm currently needing an answer from a player, and I won't give this turn results before.

I hope I will be able to post the results as soon as possible.

[Elscouta]

Round 3, Turn 4 Results!

SensFan :

Defect

(-5)
chenshi :

Defect

(-5)

Animorpherv

Volunteer

(+5)
AurorusVox :

Volunteer

(+5)

Fishythefish :

Defect

(+10)
Yawetag :

Volunteer

(-10)

Current standings :

Fishythefish : 80
AurorusVox : 25
SensFan : 20
Animorpherv1 : 20
yawetag : 15
chenshi : 0

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I hope the next turn will be faster.

[Elscouta]

Round 3, Turn 5 Results!

SensFan :

Defect

(-5)
chenshi :

Defect

(-5)

Animorpherv

Volunteer

(+5)
AurorusVox :

Volunteer

(+5)

Fishythefish :

Defect

(+10)
Yawetag :

Volunteer

(-10)

Current standings :

Fishythefish : 90
AurorusVox : 30
Animorpherv1 : 25
SensFan : 15
yawetag : 5
chenshi : -5

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This is the end of round 3!

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Round 4 Pairings

Fishythefish vs AurorusVox
Animorpherv vs SensFan
yawetag vs chenshi

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Discussion is now free. I'll pm quicktopic to each pair soon.

Given I'll be away from computer until next Monday, you have until next Monday to send me a strategy. Remember : your strategy can be as complex as you want, might include randomness, but otherwise can only depend on the choices that you, your partner and the other players made during the previous turns.

[AurorusVox]

Yatta! Vox and Aminorpherv are awesome volunteer-ers!

[animorpherv1]

Yatta! Vox and Aminorpherv are awesome volunteer-ers!

Awesome people are awesome.

[Elscouta]

chenhsi has been prodded ... (again )

[Elscouta]

Despite prods, yawetag has not answered. I don't want to stall the game any longer, so here's what will happen :

* Yawetag is removed from the game, and greylisted from any of my future games.
* Yawetag opponent (chenshi) will play against all 4 other strategies provided by the players and I will average his results. This looks to me like the fairest way to handle the situation. (Making yawetag auto-volunteer or auto-defect would give a huge penalty or advantage to chenshi)

Expect results in a few hours.

[Elscouta]

Round 4 Results!

FishyTheFish : Tit-for-Tat
AurorusVox : Defect Every Turn

SensFan : Defect Every Turn
Animorpherv : Tit-for-Tat

Chenshi : Tit-for-Tat for 40 turns, Defect last 10.

Effects :
FishyTheFish : -30.5
AurorusVox : -28.5
SensFan : -28.5
Animorpherv : -30.5
Chenshi : -8.75 (+13, +13, -30.5, -30.5)

[Elscouta]

Final Standings

Fishythefish : 59.5
AurorusVox : 1.5
Animorpherv1 : -5.5
chenshi : -13.75
SensFan : -15.5

Thanks to all players for participating! I hope you enjoyed this small game, and I welcome any comments on the game / my modding. I already had some remarks from SensFan, and even if i disagree about how he would have fixed the situation, I'll make sure that I'm not put in the same situation again.

[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)

[animorpherv1]

HAH! I knew you were going to defect!

[AurorusVox]

Hey Fishy ^^

I realised that I had to defect every round to have any chance of winning, so sorry about the defect

Considering I came into the most hated spot, I think I played quite nicely for most of the game (until the FINALE that is!)

[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.