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Advie - 14 October 2016 07:02 PM

let me say i came with after thinking about this issue.

-if someone is so sure about his answer upon the keyword only and doesn’t want to provide a question that eventually could l help thru the process of discovering the title being dealt with, it’s accepted under the circumstance that he/she is barred from continuing playing the current round if his/her guess was wrong.

If they got it wrong, it’s no big deal, though. The frustrating thing is if people have spent a long time asking questions and the answer is finally clear - and then someone who hasn’t been taking part up to that point jumps in just to win it.

That’s just obnoxious behaviour. If you’ve been offline and come back to find you can guess the answer straight away, ask a question to confirm before putting a guess in - if someone who’s actually contributed to finding the answer gets there in the meantime, it seems fairer for them to have it anyway. If not, you get it without being inconsiderate and you have the private satisfaction of knowing you guessed it with the clue that were already there.

I can appreciate the jackpot thing - but joining the race just to cross the finish line is rude.

Right, rant over.
Does the game involve hostages?

TimovieMan - 15 October 2016 04:50 AM

Phlebas - 15 October 2016 02:52 AM

The frustrating thing is if people have spent a long time asking questions and the answer is finally clear - and then someone who hasn’t been taking part up to that point jumps in just to win it.

And how many times has this happened in this 150+ page thread?

If enforced, how long should the others wait before giving the answer if you’ve made it obvious what it is but you’re not online anymore? And if someone started with “is it 3rd person?” and then doesn’t post for 4 days except to give the answer once it’s clear, it’s ok for him?

This all feels like wanting to add rules for the sake of adding rules. If you deduced it to the point of asking a final give-away question to confirm your thoughts, why not just guess at it instead? You can’t know in advance when the “box owner” is going to be online to answer your question, and once he/she does answer, nobody knows in advance when the one who did “all the legwork” is going to return.

Frankly, if I did all the legwork, and it gets nabbed right in front of me, then really, I should’ve been a bit faster. Bring on the next one so I have another shot…

Phlebas - 15 October 2016 02:53 AM

Does the game involve hostages?

No.

Honestly, I agree with most of what you say.

But I honor the rules laid upon me by the gamemaster.
I think it’s up to Advie to modify the rules.

Is it a PC game?

Was it released after year 2000?