TRUE effectiveness of VQ/castling/clam-hoarding

[Reverend Zombie]

Post here if you've ever won or lost a game using a combination of any or all of the title strategies.

Also indicate whether anyone else in the game used the same strategies.

Tales of losses using using the title strategies are perhaps even more welcome than tales of victory.

[Cohen]

I tried this strategy ... always lost.
There was always Norfleet in the same game.

[NTJedi]

Originally posted by Reverend Zombie:

Tales of losses using using the title strategies are perhaps even more welcome than tales of victory.

Hopefully the Tales of losses will provide more information then the previous post.

[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by Reverend Zombie:

Tales of losses using using the title strategies are perhaps even more welcome than tales of victory.

Hmm, I wonder why?

Originally posted by Reverend Zombie:

I am not a nice person. Otherwise, I wouldn't have anything worth quoting.
-Norfleet

[ May 26, 2004, 22:24: Message edited by: Stormbinder ]

[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by NTJedi:

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Originally posted by Reverend Zombie:

Tales of losses using using the title strategies are perhaps even more welcome than tales of victory.

Hopefully the Tales of losses will provide more information then the previous post.

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[Cheezeninja]

Doing very simple arithmetic, you can easily come to the conclusion that no matter how leet your strategy is, if its widly popular there will be far more losses than successes. In order to really gauge the effectiveness of a strategy you would need to eliminate so many variables as to make it extremely difficult if not almost impossible in practice. If you ask Cohen how effective the strategy is, he would tell you not very (as he said earlier in this thread). But if you were to ask Norfleet you would get an entirely different result. But how much of this is dependant on the strategy, and how much on simple skill with the game? Norfleet might be able to completely ignore the conjuration branch of magic and still win more than 50% of his games... does this then make ignoring conjuration a valid strategy? If i could find a strategy where i was guaranteed to be one of the Last 2 people left in the game i would consider that a very effective strategy even if i lost every time.

Not sure if i really have a point... but this game has so many variables that i think the only real way to know if a strategy works is to try it for yourself and see if you have fun, if you do, then it worked! hooray for you.

[ May 27, 2004, 01:08: Message edited by: Cheezeninja ]