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donkeymile wrote:your opponent has ridiculously good dice against you consistently?

Woodruff wrote:

donkeymile wrote:your opponent has ridiculously good dice against you consistently?

Fair? I dunno...but it seems like a dumb reason, to be honest. Over time, the dice will likely (though not necessarily, according to statistics, each roll is it's own entity, blah blah blah) revert back toward you so you are essentially VOLUNTARILY GIVING UP FUTURE GOOD DICE.

Funkyterrance wrote:

Woodruff wrote:

donkeymile wrote:your opponent has ridiculously good dice against you consistently?

Fair? I dunno...but it seems like a dumb reason, to be honest. Over time, the dice will likely (though not necessarily, according to statistics, each roll is it's own entity, blah blah blah) revert back toward you so you are essentially VOLUNTARILY GIVING UP FUTURE GOOD DICE.

I think what woodruff is trying to say is that it's an irrational reason to foe someone. The dice are random but you know that the player has inferior skills to yours. The odds of ultimately winning more games become better the more times you play this person, granted their skill level doesn't improve dramatically.

donkeymile wrote:your opponent has ridiculously good dice against you consistently?

I played a low ranked player recently who destroyed me in our first game. The dice were something like (3v2) 31 wins 5 losses and (3v1) 13 wins 0 losses. My dice were negative against him but can't recall the details of that. So I played a second game to try my chances again. He went (3v2) 34 wins 4 losses and (3v1) 15 wins 1 loss. To open the game he went 6v3v3v3 perfect. After he won 7v8, 5v6, 6v10, and a couple other odds you wouldn't expect to win. I got destroyed and had negative dice again (as if it mattered anyway).

So I foed him based on the luck dice alone ... his strategy was horrible, and had our dice been close I would have easily won. You can tell by the battles he won that he never should have even been attacking ... there was no reason for him to, as I had no bonus and it was trench, where he obtained a bonus and a buffer within the first round (second game) and second round (first game).

So it is kind of a cowardly move to foe him based on dice but he is (3v2) 55 and 9, and (3v1) 18 and 1 against me as a low rank (compared to me anyway). I feel I had no choice. I've never seen such a discrepancy in the dice.

Thoughts?

donkeymile wrote:your opponent has ridiculously good dice against you consistently?

I played a low ranked player recently who destroyed me in our first game. The dice were something like (3v2) 31 wins 5 losses and (3v1) 13 wins 0 losses. My dice were negative against him but can't recall the details of that. So I played a second game to try my chances again. He went (3v2) 34 wins 4 losses and (3v1) 15 wins 1 loss. To open the game he went 6v3v3v3 perfect. After he won 7v8, 5v6, 6v10, and a couple other odds you wouldn't expect to win. I got destroyed and had negative dice again (as if it mattered anyway).

So I foed him based on the luck dice alone ... his strategy was horrible, and had our dice been close I would have easily won. You can tell by the battles he won that he never should have even been attacking ... there was no reason for him to, as I had no be bonus and it was trench, where he obtained a bonus and a buffer within the first round (second game) and second round (first game).

So it is kind of a cowardly move to foe him based on dice but he is (3v2) 55 and 9, and (3v1) 18 and 1 against me as a low rank (compared to me anyway). I feel I had no choice. I've never seen such a discrepancy in the dice.

Thoughts?