FTA

[stevewastaken]

(07-07-2012 04:26 AM)Harti Wrote:  In Outwitters, however, with the 5 starting wits you usually tend to get one bonus point or two and move some predeployed units around. You can't do soooo much to exploit FTA here.

This was the mindset of HA originally as well. Eventually it became clear that in competitive games, FTA became significantly important to winning. I forget the exact numbers, but I think it was something like 20% more likely to win with FTA, and that's even considering HA has elements of luck and team balance that Outwitters does not.

In an ELO system (which Outwitters uses for all league games), where basically every game will be competitive, it will probably become clear pretty quickly that FTA has major impact.

In the HA player run league, the solution was to start the starting player with 3 Action Points on his first turn, rather than the standard 5. While there is still a statistical advantage to FTA using the 3 AP system, it is pretty slight, when previously it was significant. That same solution would probably have the same results for Outwitters as well, considering both games start with 5 action points.