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Lst6 wrote:
As expected, Niccus, you're DOOOMED!!! Explanation follows in the secret tag (there is a image, that why)

My first kill! Nice bonus to my boost to the center.

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Beef Row wrote:

Lst6 wrote:
As expected, Niccus, you're DOOOMED!!! Explanation follows in the secret tag (there is a image, that why)

My first kill! Nice bonus to my boost to the center.

Sorry but if Niccus jumps can't he do a full reverse to the open space behind him?

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techant wrote:

Beef Row wrote:

Lst6 wrote:
As expected, Niccus, you're DOOOMED!!! Explanation follows in the secret tag (there is a image, that why)

My first kill! Nice bonus to my boost to the center.

Sorry but if Niccus jumps can't he do a full reverse to the open space behind him?

Full reverse is the last possible move, regardless of whether he does a bump or jump. Remember, with a jump, the order of attempted moves is just changed from the default to this:

1. move forward
2. jump forward
3. move right
4. jump right
5. move left
6. jump left
7. jump back

Niccus will have open space to the left, so he will go that way.



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The space that is currently behind that "Dead Niccus spot" will be taken up by another snake by then.

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What? I'm the only undead snake left? Revenge is coming, my twice-dead brothers! The first thing I'm gonna do after leaving my tomb is bite someone's head off. I even know whose...

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Well, that is a possibility. And if you already see it, Maurog, then I think we can safely say that there will be 40 snakes shortly.

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How do you use an untiltime tag?
I have something to say in one.

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[unhidetime=August 23, 2006 10:00am] TEXT [/unhidetime (remember to close it)
And you mean Unhidetag, untiltime is another thing.
Edit:whoops, forgot that time has to be set too

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Well, my predicted potential death hasn't panned out, which is pretty much how I expected it to go.

Maurog was the snake facing elimination, but it required coppro to keep jumping until he filled up the entire column...something coppro rightly chose not to do, as it would have put him in a corner, and it's looking like corners are a risky place to be.

But it does look like we'll have a third confirmed death by tomorrow...



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I just looked at the map, and there are really snakes in deadly positions, I just saw some potencial deaths, better said, a dead snake (I suppose it is the snake that jbluestein means.)
But if the moves are bad, not 1, 2 snakes will die. This is getting interesting (and i cant participate because of the holiday to Germany that killed me and didn't let me revive )

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Aw, crap. The worst part is I didn't even intend to go that direction at the beginning. I was sure I had put in B as my first command. It looks like the ones who jumped straight into the arenas have actually been the safest.

Strangely enough, I think it was due to a bug. And it happened again- some of the commands I saved got eaten for no reason. Of course, I can't say for sure if I actually hit the "save" button, since until now I'd been entering them in capital letters.

I was so looking forward to actually making some decisions, too. The only turns you can make if you go into the rings are usually at the corners.

Also, I would live if I were to move *after* Maurog. I find this... irritating. Move order doesn't seem to give an advantage at all, as it can either kill you or save you depending on the situation. I wish stuck snakes would wait until everyone else has moved before trying again. That way if you are higher in the move order you actually do have a slightly better chance to survive.

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I think I'm in the position where I hold the life of another snakes in my, er, head. Not entirely sure whether killing him is in my best interests, though.

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Does anybody else think that the board looks like a pixellated rendition of "The Scream" face?

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eytanz wrote:
I think I'm in the position where I hold the life of another snakes in my, er, head. Not entirely sure whether killing him is in my best interests, though.

Oooh...interesting.

Hmmm. Well...I guess we're not supposed to give advice, but I do think that this little chestnut is appropriate:

<Paul Reubens>
Kill him a lot!
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Yeah, sure jbluestein. I was worried you were going to jump, therefore messing up my plan of jumping, then bumping. If you had jumped, I would have bumped then jumped.

Oh well, it worked out fine. I'm still kind of miffed that I missed my chance to kill Beef Row though. :/

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Chaco wrote:
Yeah, sure jbluestein. I was worried you were going to jump, therefore messing up my plan of jumping, then bumping. If you had jumped, I would have bumped then jumped.

Oh well, it worked out fine. I'm still kind of miffed that I missed my chance to kill Beef Row though. :/

I think you were OK no matter what I did. I haven't really been in much of a position to affect any other snakes yet. Of course, now with my private snake alcove being slithered into by all these Johnny-come-lately snakes, who can say what will happen?



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Yeah, it's just that I specifically wanted to get into the middle - as stated before, the corners are very crowded right now.

EDIT:

Due to movement order, I will be heading to the middle and Michthro will not.

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WOOHOOOO!!!! jbluestein bumped! I've been waiting anxiously for nearly two days (well, ever since Jason jumped over Chaco), hoping he would. (There were a few other, unlikely, possibilities.)

jbluestein wrote:
I haven't really been in much of a position to affect any other snakes yet.

You could have killed me by jumping on your last move. I'd have ended up trapped between you and Chaco. It wouldn't necessarily have been in your best interests, but not an obvious mistake either. Something tells me you'd have grabbed it if you saw it.

I may even get a chance to actually make a move now. Not that I'm in the greatest position, but if I can only get to *play* a little.

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Well, after this move it is official, Ezlo, as he predicted, is DOOOMED, that makes 3 snakes dead, but the other I saw saved himself.

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michthro wrote:
You could have killed me by jumping on your last move. I'd have ended up trapped between you and Chaco.

I'm not sure what you are talking about. By the time you would have faced Chaco jbluestein's head would have been far away. Since Chaco moves first, you would have been deflected leftwards, over jbluestein's body.

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Lst6 wrote:
Well, after this move it is official, Ezlo, as he predicted, is DOOOMED, that makes 3 snakes dead, but the other I saw saved himself.

Ezlo can still be saved by another serpent (though that's unlikely because that serpent will then die instead of him).

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eytanz wrote:
I'm not sure what you are talking about. By the time you would have faced Chaco jbluestein's head would have been far away. Since Chaco moves first, you would have been deflected leftwards, over jbluestein's body.

I didn't say I'd have died when I met Chaco. I'd have died 30 turns from now, against the left side of the area I'm going to enter. I'd have Ostegolectr1c's body and a wall in front of me, Chaco's head to my right, and jbluestein's head to my left. Trust me. I didn't spend two days agonising over this without checking it carefully.

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Well, I believe you, partially because you're such a better DROD player than I am that I feel it's far more likely that I'm missing something here. But I really can't see how you would have faced an inevitable death, since jbluestein, had he jumped, would have faced yet another jump-or-bump option when he reached Ostegolectr1c's body so at worst you would still be at risk of dying.

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So, um... Is it a bad thing that, in hopes of everything going exactly the way I want it to, I've got something like a week's worth of moves queued up? I know I'm most likely going to have to change something in there somewhere, but... yeah.

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Hikari wrote:
So, um... Is it a bad thing that, in hopes of everything going exactly the way I want it to, I've got something like a week's worth of moves queued up? I know I'm most likely going to have to change something in there somewhere, but... yeah.

I don't know - why don't you post the move list and then we can tell you

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McFrugal wrote:
Aw, crap. The worst part is I didn't even intend to go that direction at the beginning. I was sure I had put in B as my first command. It looks like the ones who jumped straight into the arenas have actually been the safest.

Are you sure you counted enough Bs at the very start? Since you jumped, you must have typed some number of Bs followed by a J, and it was very easy to forget about the very very first bump (before you even reach the outer ring).

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Somehow, I think Stephen4Louise is going to win - he's got a really good spot right now where he can safely coil.

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TripleM wrote:

McFrugal wrote:
Aw, crap. The worst part is I didn't even intend to go that direction at the beginning. I was sure I had put in B as my first command. It looks like the ones who jumped straight into the arenas have actually been the safest.

Are you sure you counted enough Bs at the very start? Since you jumped, you must have typed some number of Bs followed by a J, and it was very easy to forget about the very very first bump (before you even reach the outer ring).

Well, I put in my first commands after the second bump. I think I did, anyway. It's too bad it can't be verified.

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Chaco wrote:
Somehow, I think Stephen4Louise is going to win - he's got a really good spot right now where he can safely coil.

Oh Stephen4Louise has a long window of safety, that's true, but not nearly enough to carry him through the end of the game. He may or may not win, but he'll need major luck to win by just coiling to victory.


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eytanz wrote:

Lst6 wrote:
Well, after this move it is official, Ezlo, as he predicted, is DOOOMED, that makes 3 snakes dead, but the other I saw saved himself.

Ezlo can still be saved by another serpent (though that's unlikely because that serpent will then die instead of him).

Actually, there are two snakes that can save Ezlo, and one can do so without dying.

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