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- Mon Nov 09, 2015 6:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Paradox Buys White Wolf from CCP
- Replies: 316
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- Thu Nov 05, 2015 10:51 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Why Eastern European games rock so much ?
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It seems likely that any perceptions about the comparative ratios of excellent, distinctive games to bland games coming out of different regions is at least somewhat attributable to the denominator. That is, Eastern Europe produces fewer games, and of those games a smaller number still get worldwide...
- Sun Jul 05, 2015 3:25 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Youtube videos that make us Laugh, Cry, or Both
- Replies: 1644
- Views: 305787
- Tue May 12, 2015 11:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What archetypes does 5E not represent well?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 24703
- Fri May 08, 2015 1:54 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Shadowrun 5] On the playability of Matrix
- Replies: 155
- Views: 22080
- Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:20 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 965859
- Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:18 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
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- Wed Feb 04, 2015 6:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Mage the Ascension: Is it really possible to remove Entropy?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9824
- Sat Jan 31, 2015 6:54 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1687401
- Mon Jan 26, 2015 1:30 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: TGDMB & Ars Magica
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12657
It's not quite as ridiculous as that. It's just the idea that theoretically a designer could make a game which relied on Aristotelian physics, and presented it in sufficient detail and coherence in the game book itself that players could use it, without relying on a vague pointer to centuries of arg...
- Wed Dec 24, 2014 8:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why is Failing Forward so disliked on these boards? [!silva]
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9363
- Wed Dec 24, 2014 5:13 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why is Failing Forward so disliked on these boards? [!silva]
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9363
- Sat Dec 20, 2014 6:15 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Lesser of Two Evils: Pathfinder or 5e?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 11321
- Sat Dec 20, 2014 5:55 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Lesser of Two Evils: Pathfinder or 5e?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 11321
- Sat Dec 20, 2014 5:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 965859
- Sun Dec 14, 2014 2:08 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 965859
- Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:36 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 965859
- Thu Nov 20, 2014 1:06 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 6614
- Views: 718093
- Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:25 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
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- Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:06 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 6614
- Views: 718093
Because other strategies will have best-responses that are actually positive, which means that you will lose points when your opponent switches to them. I'll run through my process. For this two-player three-strategy game, a mixed strategy is a tuple (x, y, z) such that x, y, and z are real numbers ...
- Wed Nov 19, 2014 6:47 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 6614
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So you get zero points and he gets zero points. How is that supposed to prove it's not an NE? It's a zero-sum symmetric game, you'd expect the equilibrium to give both players EVs of zero. The fact that there are mixed strategies that have positive expected value when played against (1/3, 1/3, 1/3) ...
- Wed Nov 19, 2014 5:02 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
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Oof. That's on me, I had the setup wrong. I gave rock 3 points, paper 2 points, and scissors 1 point. Sorry to keep flubbing it. With 3, 1, 2 the NE is (R, P, S) = (1/3, 1/2, 1/6). Let's check the pure payoffs: R = (-1)(1/2) + (3)(1/6) = 0; P = (1)(1/3) + (-2)(1/6) = 0; S = (-3)(1/3) + (2)(1/2) = 0....
- Wed Nov 19, 2014 1:15 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 6614
- Views: 718093
Oh, I see what I've been doing differently. I didn't realize this was still zero-sum, and thought you only lost one point for losing no matter what you lost to. If it's zero-sum... Say your strategy is (R, P, S) = (1/6, 1/2, 1/3). Then an opponent's payoff for pure rock is (-2)(1/2) + (3)(1/3) = 0, ...
- Wed Nov 19, 2014 1:13 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 6614
- Views: 718093
Well, hang on. If your opponent is playing R = 1/4, P = 1/2, S = 1/4, let's look at the expected payoffs of your pure strategies. The payoff for playing rock 100% of the time is (-1/2) + 3 * (1/4) = 1/4, for playing paper 100% of the time is 2(1/4) + -1(1/4) = 1/4, and for playing scissors 100% of t...
- Wed Nov 19, 2014 2:45 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 6614
- Views: 718093
If I'm not getting this wrong, the only fully mixed Nash equilbrium is paper half the time, then rock and scissors a quarter each. Say player 1 plays rock with frequency x, scissors with frequency y, and paper with frequency z. Then the payoffs for player 2's pure strategies are: rock: -y + 3z paper...