Op The Two Thousand and Fourteen Pokemon Online No-Playerlist Shenanigans League [or 2014PONPSL] hosted by me Beacause everyone’s (mostly marquis was) doing it; Haha hiya everyone : ) The 2014PONSPL (pronounced pons-pool [whatever if you want the l to be silent - it is!]) will be different things to different people. I couldn’t think of anything either; 1. Grandiose and epic and exicitng or; 2. Funny or witty or whatever So here - most of all I think it will be fun. It may be just me trying to crack a few jokes, talk about life and be creative but if just to see what comes of it just sign up and play pleaaaaseeeee So the idea for this game, somewhat, was stolen from smogon. See here (link) And what it is, is basically a series of challenges to test everything. The challenges could have anything to do with anything but pretty much they will involve thinking and choosing actions in light of a game context and what other players do. They each have their own set of rules. The losers of those challenges will be eliminated at the end of the round and the winners will progress. As the league goes on the challenges will get more complex; requiring more skill and other player coordination and hopefully some metagaming. Challenges will keep going until there is one player left I think; that player will win the first official ponspl. And just for giggles I decided to make it no playerlist. Rules (/other stuff); If you read this post (player or not) you should set the official game channel - #drillbits - to auto-join! For this game to have maximum fun it requires activity and communication from the community as a whole so yeah the channel and also just make sure you get stuff in by deadlines and are talking with others about strategy and whatnot. Stressing that point - you must be willing to accept a punishment for the crime of inactivity - idling. It won’t be anything to severe but… just remember that. Don't be a plank, by which I mean don't be a big fat jerk to people ok? Don't do stuff that would ruin the game like.. I dunno... revealing everyone left in the game? Think about what you do before you do it. That helps in all of life so consider it a life tip : ) You will not know the other players who are active in the game at most points in time - at least from me telling you. Although there will be hints from the challenges in some shape or form. Mostly however you will have to talk to other people and do your own research. You can just straight up be a non-player but seeing as people will be eliminated you might as well join and then start messing around once you’re out. Non-players can do anything to players (within reason - if you have dubious doubts about what you are going to do; probably talk to me first!). Players could use this against other players. Just sayin There are potentially ways for users who were eliminated or were not originally players but missed out on signups to (re-)enter the game. At the end of signups and most rounds I will say the number of players remaining in the game. This game will for a large amount of its actions/round undertaking use google forms. You don’t have to have google anything or anything else to access them I think but just make sure you open links in my posts. When answering these forms I will need you to be honest most of the time, and especially in one area. When asking for a po username, answer your own po username unless I explicitly say you can do otherwise. Don't be a plank! This is my colour! Read everything I say twice. No jokes If you have any general / would be helpful to all questions you should ask them here; <snip> Anyway so to kick off PONPSL; ~ Challenge 0 ~ Complete this form (THIS IS THE LINK TO IT RIGHT HERE https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MZ9plwm0YqVfGusooxckHo2g8LqKs3vh3dyigJpXkwA/viewform) and do exactly as it says. Follow the advice of the headings preeetty closely. After the first page you will probably reach a page where you need to make sure you follow some more instructions. Especially those at the top of the page! If you do that correctly you are a sign up : ) It’s easy enough as long as you read. Oh before I forget: So that there is some incentive for creativity, real talk and general answering of stuff; the five players with the best (read: based upon SUBJECTIVE CRITERIA oh no) answers will be rewarded in the next round. Furthermore the laziest answers may or may not be punished! Let’s go pons pool 2014 cyaaas
grab Current number of *attempted* signups: twenty something - I didn't really count encourage people to keep signing up yay
Forgot to say signups will close in three days from now (pending number of submissions) If you want to play more to screw around with people (i.e. be a non-player), still sign-up; it'll be fun and you'll *probably* get out eventually and be able to have played AND screwed around. how lovely
hey fellas. Ideally would like a few more signups (around twenty at the moment), because it means there will be more rounds and more fun and stuff. The time commitment (at least early on) is just sending in something every one or two days; which really isn't that hard right!? If you make a deep run (KANSAS) you'd probably need to put more time in, but nothing TOOO intense But really I thought of some sick ideas and I want as many people to enjoy in them as possible and have stupid/smart fun Tell your friends!
dooppog there is no 20 postss in thread yet and you said twnetu is sined up maybe wokr of MAFIA/?????
Sign-Up Challenge results Yo team so… if I’m being honest, there weren’t that many super- correct signups….. Twenty five players attempt to sign up oh dear. Who’s going home? Wait dopog don’t list out names that’d be stupid!…. how do I know if I’ve signed up good or not you plank??!! Take it easy man. Patience is truly underrated; The users with band names (comments in [these] brackets); <band names here below> Spoiler ~ Water is Cute [....] ~ Fixed Points [I really like this… but seems like some band destined to never make it] ~ Mulberry [short and sweet right. nah all seriousness I appreciate this one] ~ Shaping the Sky [good work, have fun never playing a major venue. Although I like the name] ~ The Dump [If you asked me if I liked this one… Well yes and no. I dunno people would be able to insult the music that comes from the dumps, or perhaps the music would be the dump? See. But you are putting your neck out there so good for your band] ~ Rend [yeah ok. Whatever it’s alright!] ~ The mysterious angelic radioheads from the planet pluto [gg no re. Radiohead is a band. They’re a pretty big deal. js] ~ The Dock [I’m pretty sure it’s not a thing so yeah I liked it go for it man go get em] ~ ur welcome [I like the idea, but I mean who even types “ur” anymore? Probably doesn’t even mean what I think it does nowadays…. I’m getting old for someone under the age of twenty two...] [that wasn’t a hint btw] All the users with those band names completed both forms whilst correctly following the instructions! If that was one of your band names: good work! You will get help for the next round! The users with these band names; Spoiler ~ The Whirling Derbish [I suppose you are who you are and you can’t avoid that spilling into your hypothetical bandnames - saying that, I like it] ~ Uncle Sams Eagle [really thought you woulda gone more pretentious than that] ~ The Choice Band [this one is kinda like a random drink you buy at an asian grocer that gets worse with every sip, but then you buy it again because the first time you sipped it it was good] ~ K-ON [I mean copyright laws are probably a thing but it doesn’t matter if the name is satirical right!] ~ the gods [smh that wouldn’t be a good name] ~ Toxic Fetus [this name has character, new age version of the wiggles, except without the mass appeal to children] ~ The Beasts! [yeah so this is like the beatles, works right?, except not at all (was that too harsh? sorry)] ~ Bob Starly and the wailmers [it’s subtle and not at the same time, pretty good I reckon] ~ the JENNIES from the BLOCK [The joke misses the mark on me, how sad. Even then I only know two people who would buy their stuff, and one of them is you, and maybe then you wouldn’t even buy it] ~ Northern Lights :] [Just because you put a smiley at the end doesn’t mean you can rip off another name… okay fine I like smileys, but you didn’t even read the rules get outta here] ~ The dreaded Monday [I really liked this one, until I realised that people don’t like monday] ~ The Returning Champions [hrmm pretty on the fence about this one. Reminds me of pokemon if only for the Champion bit so I probably like it more than I don’t] ~ The Chocolate Onions [I wish I had something better to say about this one. I really do… but…] Need to learn to read. I said don’t answer all the questions on the page. TWICE…. I said it twice. Now that’s just lazy. Because of that laziness in not even reading I decided to reward simply reading the instructions instead of creativity this round. How sad is that….\ Expect some punishments some time! Oh the minimum character count was two by the way. No one hit that so no one was eliminated! Hey and if you didn’t answer the question you would have survived too! And my least favourite answers of the round can go to the users with band names; Spoiler ~ the used tampons [When someone says hi to you, do you think it’s appropriate to rattle off a thousand digits of pi? No, I didn’t think so either….] ~ the *i**heads [(Asteriks not included) I liked that you were able to actually respond (see above) but man your answers to the last two questions made me sad - if you weren’t actually being lazy perhaps we should talk that second last one over : S] ~ Psychotic [eh average answers all round except for the band name?!. Don’t be sad *sadface*, we can get them next time] You guys answered all the questions too so you'll get a harsher punishment what....?! Yeah sorry about that. And my favourite answers belonged to; ~ Most of you. All of you! Even pi guy. It’s nice just hearing about your lives and crap and even just seeing how you respond to “there is a minimum character count don’t hit it or eliminated”. Keep being cool guys : ) Anything I loved in particular - there were some good stories, and good musings about how the world works, what we’re supposed to do with all of it - hopefully I can tell you about it on server. I’d encourage you to get on there during the rest of the game! If you think I've missed out on you then drop me a message on server or pm. Coolies Well we've learned people can't read and stuff but that's ok! At least no one is going home : ) Not yet anyway Challenge one incoming -; my next post
Challenge 1 goes up ~ Challenge 1 ~ Like all great challenge leagues we can start with a quiz. This quiz is not too hard. Answer the first two questions of this form correct and any one of the next three correct (THIS FORM https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YzmapZbnNQTA1nZm3duySO0WRvWjRNnoPzNx3tqq9As/viewform) to progress. The first person to submit, getting all three of the second set right will receive a reward for next round. But as always there is a bit of a twist. Because this task is somewhat easy….You can submit as many forms as you want. And in addition to those who fail to get the correct answer in any of their forms (i.e. they don't get the correct answer for any of the three at all) the three players who submit the highest amount of correct forms will be eliminated and the three players who submit the lowest amount of correct forms will be eliminated. For tiebreaking purposes the timing of the last correct submission of each player will be used, with players submitting their last correct submission earlier counting as closer to the middle than those submitted later. As in it’s easier to survive if you submit a close to high/low amount earlier on. Also, if you so desire both players and non players may post in the thread - “I’m a big fat ballot stuffer who wants to rig voting phases only all the time” - and I will post in the thread how many ballots you have stuffed the box with (i.e. how many times you have correctly responded to the form), regardless of whether you are a player or not. Although the amount for players will be true, the amount for non-players might be ambiguous/random/whoknows - I dunno we can talk it out? Any of the good band names mentioned above to receive a reward - talk to me on server and I’ll give you the answer to any of the five questions! (although asking for the answer to the first two would be a donkey move). Any other questions? - we can talk : )
Deadline will be just under three days from now - easiest time for me to update. So deadline is Monday 24th of March at 22:00 GMT + 0 / 18:00 EDT / tuesday morning in australia etc etc
Answers to questions that multiple people have asked. Help for question three cause you might not be able to get it from just the question; Spoiler I'm telling you he doughnuts when I go there; the question is asking what does he eat when you go there? The answer for the fourth question; Spoiler if applicable needs to be to one decimal place if you had some false hope from that sorry : S Regarding the fifth question; ~ Everyone has an equal chance of being blue or brown eyes ~ Mirrors and water don't count whaaaat! ~ You can communicate about a plan and what not but you can’t tell people what colour eyes they have, or tell people the ratio of blue to brown eyes you’ve seen, or develop a secret language by which to communicate eye colour or anything like that. As in you can’t give away any information to any degree whatsoever about the colour of anyone’s eyes. You just need to formulate a method to GUARANTEE people survive. This is supposed to be very hard compared to the other two. Making you work for the reward for next round! You can post the ballot stuffing thing as many times as you want in thread.
hello friends I know the answers to the first two questions, so if you require assistance in moving on please PM me on the server !
I’m a big fat ballot stuffer who wants to rig voting phases only all the time I like it when nonplayers can participate
Public Service announcements hey Master12345~! You make some bold claims there for someone with ZERO ballots!!! We're giving some more help Sometimes when I go to the moon, the man on the moon eats duck as well as doughnuts. Hopefully that helps with that Question! No one has successfully submitted with the correct answer to all three questions yet, even with a free answer!! Also I won't actually be on to update (uni business) so I'm pushing deadline back a day So deadline is Tuesday 25th of March at 22:00 GMT + 0 / 18:00 EDT / tuesday morning in australia etc etc
Yep, sorry. Deadline is in fact tuesday the 25th at the specified time! Just under a day from now Get that form/those forms (who's to say?!) in!!!!!!! gotta go. byeee
Hello all! There are just about eleven hours till deadline and I'm feeling a bit iffy; Upon receiving advice / spending time thinking - I thought being upfront and honest about this was the best way to go, seeing as the challenge didn't go down as I had planned; A maximum of 9 people will be eliminated by this challenge in order of elimination; ~ fail to complete the form at all ~ completing the form but not answering anything ~ completing the form without an answer to question three / one and being incorrect on the last two questions ~ having the highest number or lowest number of forms with an answer to question three / correct forms (max three highest and three lowest) By this I am saying any answer put for question three or one (however you so label it) is now in effect "correct" for the purposes of submitting a correct form. Further - getting any two questions truly correct (the real right answer for question three / one) will now lead to a reward for the next challenge! These decisions needed to be made and we can talk about the why and how later. Deadline can be extended but I don't think this majorly affects anyone. Anyway; Mike!!! I mean if you think Epikhairz is truly a big ballot stuffer than sure, you can be one TWO (ballots). NotMafia! That's more like it. Compared to these other posers it looks like you've just rigged an election with five (FIVE!) votes! byeee
Just under an hour to go girls and boys! There is still time redjoker : ) You have tried to rig the votes with three ballots of your own! A potentially almost admirable effort!