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I posted this under the Sticky Thread, Monthly Herald Event as my submission, but got no feedback at all. 
I was wondering if this is because my post is in the second page of the thread.
Well anyway, I came up with it few nights ago. The rules are actually pretty simple. Please take a look and let me know if you would be interested in participating!
FORUM GAME: Russian LT Roulette
Objective
Survive the elimination and be the last one standing. Name of the game is to pick the most unpopular LT's!
Setup
(1) All players start with 2 lives.
(2) Each day consists of one 24-hour round.
(3) Game continues until one player remains and is declared the winner.
Preliminary Rounds
Phase I: Selection Phase (8am - 2am EST)
- At 8am EST, a new round will commence.
- The game moderator will use a random generator to pick one "Bonus LT" for the round.
- As a hint, the faction of this "Bonus LT" will be announced by the game moderator. (Cartel, Syndicate, Mafia, Street, or Unaffiliated) *** SEE NOTES BELOW ***
- Players will pick and submit 2 LT's for that round by privately messaging their choices to the game moderator.
- The submission must consist of 2 different LT's. No doubling up.
- LT choices are limited to 74 LT's who are currently available (unlockable) in game. [So Siri, Hugo, Vick, Skull King, Frank are excluded for now.]
- Players can override their choices by simply submitting another message.
Phase II: Results Phase (2am - 8am EST)
- The game moderator will use this time period to tally the submissions and post the results of the round.
- In case of multiple submissions from a same player, the last submission before the end of Phase I will be used for that player.
- Players who fail to submit for that round will be executed and lose a life.
- Players who picked an LT who was the most popular choice will also be executed and lose a life.
- If there are multiple LT's tied for the most popular choices (e.g. 3 Ravens, 3 Reapers, and 3 Fangs), players who picked any one of them will be executed and lose a life PER PICK.
- It is possible that players may lose multiple lives for picking multiple most popular choices. (e.g. picking Raven and Reaper in the example above would result in loss of 2 lives)
- Players who successfully picked the "Bonus LT" as one of their picks will be rewarded 1 bonus life.
- However, if the "Bonus LT" is one of the most popular choices, players will still be executed and lose a life after gaining one. (i.e. net change of 0)
- The results of the round along with some detailed statistics will be posted at the end of the round.
- These statistics would include: "Bonus LT", individual player picks, most popular LT choice(s), changes in player life count (gain/loss), etc.
- All Players who have 0 (or less) life remaining at the end of the round will be eliminated from the game.
Endgame Stages
To ensure a steady pace of the gameplay, following modifications will be applied as the number of remaining players drop.
(1) 16-20 players remain: Each player will now pick 3 LT's instead of 2 LT's.
(2) 11-15 players remain: Each player will now pick 5 LT's instead of 3 LT's.
(3) 6-10 players remain: Each player will now pick 7 LT's instead of 5 LT's.
- Besides these modifications, the format of the rounds are still the same as that of the preliminary rounds.
- As before, the submissions must consist of all different LT's.
Sudden Death Rounds
- When 2-5 players remain, Sudden death rounds will begin. These are the championship rounds in which exactly one finalist is eliminated each round.
- Each finalist will have exactly 1 life.
- "Bonus LT" is no longer available/assigned.
Phase I: Selection Phase (8am - 2am EST)
- Each finalist will now be required to submit a list of 20 LT's, clearly indicating the order.
- The list must consist of all different LT's.
Phase II: Results Phase (2am - 8am EST)
- The finalists go around in a round-robin fashion naming off LT's from their lists in order. (simply simulated by the game moderator)
- The first finalist who repeats a previously mentioned LT will be eliminated.
- The order of finalists will be decided as follows:
-- The order goes from finalists with most remaining lives from the preliminary rounds to least.
-- In case of multiple finalists having equal remaining lives from the preliminary rounds, the order for that subset of finalists will be randomly assigned.
[E.g. B had 3 lives left going into the Sudden Death rounds. A and D have 2 lives left each. C and E have 1 life left each.
The order will be B-(A-D)-(C-E) -> B-(A-D)-(C-E) -> ..., where the order of (A-D) and (C-E) are randomized.]
-- This order is maintained throughout the entire Sudden Death rounds.
-- Going first is a slight advantage. Having more lives in the preliminary rounds therefore translates to higher chance of winning the Sudden Death rounds.
- A new sudden death round is played until one finalist remains.
Remarks
- Simple gameplay! It would only take 2-3 minutes every day to play. But if you are real hardcore, you can analyze the statistics of previous rounds and be more involved that way.
- This game also encourages players to get acquainted with some of the less popular LT's and learn their factions.
- I think it would be interesting to see what LT's players pick for each round, even if it may be random choices for the most part.
- Players should be free to discuss or claim which LT's they picked on forum. Doing so may back people off from picking your LT choice, but someone who really hates you (possibly holding multiple lives) might try to suicide on you :P
- One interesting aspect is deciding between going for the "Bonus LT" or not. Others may try for it, which concentrates the distribution of picks. So you might as well play safe and pick away from the hint. But what if they all go safe?? Decisions, decisions!
*** For the "Bonus LT" hints, they could also be trivia type varieties. A hint should apply to at least 7-8 LT's minimum though. Here are some examples:
- This LT is in the Judgement crate.
- This LT is an uncommon.
- This LT has a sibling as an in-game LT.
- This LT has same base attack and defense stats.
If this game is well received by the community, I can write up a simulation to adjust the number of LT's to pick for each stage of preliminary rounds.
My aim would be to assign the parameters such that given around 30 players, we will have around 12-15 rounds/days of well-paced gameplay. (I am not sure if this is too long or too short.)
I welcome any comments or concerns! This is only a rough draft, so please be easy with the criticisms!
Thanks for reading.
p.s. If this idea ever gets through, I would love to moderate!
I was wondering if this is because my post is in the second page of the thread.
Well anyway, I came up with it few nights ago. The rules are actually pretty simple. Please take a look and let me know if you would be interested in participating!
FORUM GAME: Russian LT Roulette
Objective
Survive the elimination and be the last one standing. Name of the game is to pick the most unpopular LT's!
Setup
(1) All players start with 2 lives.
(2) Each day consists of one 24-hour round.
(3) Game continues until one player remains and is declared the winner.
Preliminary Rounds
Phase I: Selection Phase (8am - 2am EST)
- At 8am EST, a new round will commence.
- The game moderator will use a random generator to pick one "Bonus LT" for the round.
- As a hint, the faction of this "Bonus LT" will be announced by the game moderator. (Cartel, Syndicate, Mafia, Street, or Unaffiliated) *** SEE NOTES BELOW ***
- Players will pick and submit 2 LT's for that round by privately messaging their choices to the game moderator.
- The submission must consist of 2 different LT's. No doubling up.
- LT choices are limited to 74 LT's who are currently available (unlockable) in game. [So Siri, Hugo, Vick, Skull King, Frank are excluded for now.]
- Players can override their choices by simply submitting another message.
Phase II: Results Phase (2am - 8am EST)
- The game moderator will use this time period to tally the submissions and post the results of the round.
- In case of multiple submissions from a same player, the last submission before the end of Phase I will be used for that player.
- Players who fail to submit for that round will be executed and lose a life.
- Players who picked an LT who was the most popular choice will also be executed and lose a life.
- If there are multiple LT's tied for the most popular choices (e.g. 3 Ravens, 3 Reapers, and 3 Fangs), players who picked any one of them will be executed and lose a life PER PICK.
- It is possible that players may lose multiple lives for picking multiple most popular choices. (e.g. picking Raven and Reaper in the example above would result in loss of 2 lives)
- Players who successfully picked the "Bonus LT" as one of their picks will be rewarded 1 bonus life.
- However, if the "Bonus LT" is one of the most popular choices, players will still be executed and lose a life after gaining one. (i.e. net change of 0)
- The results of the round along with some detailed statistics will be posted at the end of the round.
- These statistics would include: "Bonus LT", individual player picks, most popular LT choice(s), changes in player life count (gain/loss), etc.
- All Players who have 0 (or less) life remaining at the end of the round will be eliminated from the game.
Endgame Stages
To ensure a steady pace of the gameplay, following modifications will be applied as the number of remaining players drop.
(1) 16-20 players remain: Each player will now pick 3 LT's instead of 2 LT's.
(2) 11-15 players remain: Each player will now pick 5 LT's instead of 3 LT's.
(3) 6-10 players remain: Each player will now pick 7 LT's instead of 5 LT's.
- Besides these modifications, the format of the rounds are still the same as that of the preliminary rounds.
- As before, the submissions must consist of all different LT's.
Sudden Death Rounds
- When 2-5 players remain, Sudden death rounds will begin. These are the championship rounds in which exactly one finalist is eliminated each round.
- Each finalist will have exactly 1 life.
- "Bonus LT" is no longer available/assigned.
Phase I: Selection Phase (8am - 2am EST)
- Each finalist will now be required to submit a list of 20 LT's, clearly indicating the order.
- The list must consist of all different LT's.
Phase II: Results Phase (2am - 8am EST)
- The finalists go around in a round-robin fashion naming off LT's from their lists in order. (simply simulated by the game moderator)
- The first finalist who repeats a previously mentioned LT will be eliminated.
- The order of finalists will be decided as follows:
-- The order goes from finalists with most remaining lives from the preliminary rounds to least.
-- In case of multiple finalists having equal remaining lives from the preliminary rounds, the order for that subset of finalists will be randomly assigned.
[E.g. B had 3 lives left going into the Sudden Death rounds. A and D have 2 lives left each. C and E have 1 life left each.
The order will be B-(A-D)-(C-E) -> B-(A-D)-(C-E) -> ..., where the order of (A-D) and (C-E) are randomized.]
-- This order is maintained throughout the entire Sudden Death rounds.
-- Going first is a slight advantage. Having more lives in the preliminary rounds therefore translates to higher chance of winning the Sudden Death rounds.
- A new sudden death round is played until one finalist remains.
Remarks
- Simple gameplay! It would only take 2-3 minutes every day to play. But if you are real hardcore, you can analyze the statistics of previous rounds and be more involved that way.
- This game also encourages players to get acquainted with some of the less popular LT's and learn their factions.
- I think it would be interesting to see what LT's players pick for each round, even if it may be random choices for the most part.
- Players should be free to discuss or claim which LT's they picked on forum. Doing so may back people off from picking your LT choice, but someone who really hates you (possibly holding multiple lives) might try to suicide on you :P
- One interesting aspect is deciding between going for the "Bonus LT" or not. Others may try for it, which concentrates the distribution of picks. So you might as well play safe and pick away from the hint. But what if they all go safe?? Decisions, decisions!
*** For the "Bonus LT" hints, they could also be trivia type varieties. A hint should apply to at least 7-8 LT's minimum though. Here are some examples:
- This LT is in the Judgement crate.
- This LT is an uncommon.
- This LT has a sibling as an in-game LT.
- This LT has same base attack and defense stats.
If this game is well received by the community, I can write up a simulation to adjust the number of LT's to pick for each stage of preliminary rounds.
My aim would be to assign the parameters such that given around 30 players, we will have around 12-15 rounds/days of well-paced gameplay. (I am not sure if this is too long or too short.)
I welcome any comments or concerns! This is only a rough draft, so please be easy with the criticisms!
Thanks for reading.p.s. If this idea ever gets through, I would love to moderate!
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