Well, I was evicted from my first ever casting game last night. After a night's sleep and a chance to reflect
on my 10th place positioning, I think I have come up with a few ways to enhance MY game as well as improve
the experience of the people I play with. Here were my experiences from Casting Game #8887:
1. The most difficult aspect of the game I found was the time-zone difference. I was one of only two Australian
players in the game, but the other was evicted quite early in the game. This left me quite vulnerable as the times
that I was on my computer I would find myself staring at a blank screen while when I would wake up in the morning
I would find a lot of bonding/chatting had been happening while I was asleep. This meant I had to try to make
myself MORE available by being logged in at work, even though this meant I wasn't able to concentrate on chatting
during these hours.
2. There was a major brew-ha-ha early in our game about players "plus" and "minus"'ing each other (for the record I've never liked the terms neg, negging or negger, they sound FAR too much like racial slurs). It took me a LONG time to understand what the benefit of this behavior was in a casting game and, too be honest, I still DON'T GET IT. It seems like SUCH a big deal, but I don't think in a casting game that any of that SHOULD be happening until the final 6 or so. There were so many INACTIVE players in our game and all minusing achieved was to eliminate
the active guys and make for a boring game. Seriously, I was eliminated before TWO players who had been INACTIVE FOR TWO DAYS!! Aren't the Casting games just meant to be a little more social or did I miss the point completely?
3. I think I was a little blase about the fact that this was meant to be a game, not a chat-room with fancy avatars. I kinda formed an alliance on day 1, but one of my alliance members was in an already very successful, solid alliance from a previous game and I never really bothered to follow-through with the whole thing in an aggressive
manner. Hence, I never really felt anyone "had my back". The upside to this was I don't really feel like I was betrayed by anyone as I was playing my own game.
4. Don't let the fact that other players get emotional and caught up in the + or - wars sway you emotionally.
5. Read back on anything you may have missed out on while you weren't logged in.
6. People have speech patterns, even when they're typing. I'm CERTAIN that a few avatars in my game were controlled
by ONE person. There's no real way of proving it and it frustrates the hell out of me.
7. I will be back, and, hopefully, the next game is a little more active, a little less focused on the + and - aspect and I can go a little bit further.
Thanks for reading,
Peace!
Comments
Hey Troy. I just want to say. I wish we have could communicated more throughout this game. Now knowing what I know I mistook you for a way different player than you were. You seem like a good guy I wish i didn't have my guard up with you so much! I hope we can play again together one day!
And for the record lol, rory at the end of his posts goes like this x, i mean i think its already pretty clear me and rory aren't the same person, but in a couple posts i put x's at the end of my posts kind of poking fun of him. but i realized right away that seems a little sketchy :P
Very interesting read buddy and some interesting observations (would like to know more about #6) - you deserved to go further in the game for sure. I already explained myself to you via mail but you're one of the nicest people i've met on the site and i wish the timezone hadn't been such a hinderence for us. :-) Ste x
And for the record lol, rory at the end of his posts goes like this x, i mean i think its already pretty clear me and rory aren't the same person, but in a couple posts i put x's at the end of my posts kind of poking fun of him. but i realized right away that seems a little sketchy :P