Luke_A_Somers comments on Open Thread for February 18-24 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 19 February 2014 08:51:53PM 0 points [-]

Weird. Someone showed this to me just on Monday.

I pointed out right away that the non-trolls will want to overlevel their team (if that's a thing, I dunno), to be safe against interference.

Of course, trolls will be very effective at preventing you from getting far in menus (menu cancel spam) so you may be stuck with your starting pokemon or whatever for a long time. And heaven help you if the game requires you to go deep into a menu hierarchy to activate level up bonuses.

Comment author: falenas108 19 February 2014 09:14:04PM 1 point [-]

The problem is most definitely not being strong enough to fight the trainers they need to fight, it's getting to them in the first place.

There are a lot ledges that you can only go one way on, and many of them lead from the end of a path right back to the beginning.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 19 February 2014 09:21:01PM 0 points [-]

Maybe they could try something a little less finnicky? Final Fantasy 1, say, with a team of black belts?

Comment author: Coscott 19 February 2014 09:50:16PM 1 point [-]

I think, at least before they changed it to democracy, trolls are much less of a problem than coordination problems between individuals who are legitimately trying.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 19 February 2014 10:57:56PM *  1 point [-]

The lag really hurts too. I'm not sure I could play any game on a reasonable timeframe with 30s delay