Giving Up Before You Get An Opponent

[ElPared]

(03-28-2014 05:25 AM)Bbobb555 Wrote:  

(03-27-2014 04:05 PM)ElPared Wrote:  I notice FTA the most on Peekaboo where I can't see anything my opponent did until it's too late and they're in a position to kill your stuff for free, especially against adorables where they can save their runner or whatever and get a unit advantage.

As far as quitting before I get an opponent, I admit I do this. When I get Thorn Gulley as Feedback I always give up if I'm player 1. That's such a frustratingly bad map for Feedback that I refuse to play on it as them if I don't have to. I also do it if I screw up my opening move somehow, like I forget to cap a wit space or something.

I actually rather like that this can be done, and I don't consider it cheating so much as poor sportsmanship. In Thorn Gulley's case, though, I couldn't give 2 sh*ts about sportsmanship.

I think that this is cheating because it gives you a higher chance if winning. Say you win 50% of the time except on TG, where you win 0% of the time. Then your win probability goes up from 45.5% up to 50%. Even though the probability only goes up a little, it is still cheating. You could take this to the extreme by quitting every time unless you get glitch, where Feedback has a strong advantage.

Regardless, that is how the game works and until it is fixed or in some other capacity officially declared cheating, I will continue to do it until I figure out a good strategy for Thorn Gulley as Player 2.

speaking of which, your example only included games where I'm P1, so the "advantage" I gain by doing this is actually more like +2% which is effectively meaningless. Coin flips have a 51% chance to come up tails but we still call them even, so I don't see how a 52% chance makes that much difference, especially when there's no skill involved in coin flipping.