Political Coalitions game (Round 4)

[gandalf5166]

/in as the Party of the One Ring

[gandalf5166]

I'm confused. How are the 1 seat players supposed to gain any leverage whatsoever?

[gandalf5166]

I mean, they already have a majority. How am I supposed to beat that?

[gandalf5166]

First round, I reckon that's going to be the case. Money's going to start becoming a critical variable next round, and even more so later on.

But I'll have less money next round. So I'm essentially permanently screwed because I got a bad roll >.>

[gandalf5166]

Zang.
TonyMontana.

We should totally get revenge on CES by booting him out of the current deal.

Would you guys accept us if we took only 5m each? That's 15m more to spread out between you guys.

And yeah, I knew exactly what I needed to do, I just didn't want the current alliance to suspect it. That way when you revealed out coalition they would be all like OMGZORZ CES BETRAYED US? AND THAT CRAFTY LITTLE GANDALF BITCH

[gandalf5166]

Going behind people's backs isn't exactly novel, Gandalf. And giving Zang, TonyMontana and you 5 million each is just plain stupid; 1-voters probably wouldn't mind it if no coalition was formed and 5 million is exceedingly poor incentive to let it happen regardless.

Uhhhhhh...... Why would no coalition be better than one where we get 5m each?

[gandalf5166]

I like it. d("d)

CES will shoot it down for no good reason though.

[gandalf5166]

Proposal: An even split of $55M each among the top 4 parties: chenhsi (Anarchist Party), yabbaguy (Rent Is Too Damn High Party), UltimaAvalon (Pirate Party), and Twistedspoon (All of Your Base Party).

I was about to be like "Yeah...... like chenhsi would ever agree to that......"

THEN I REALIZED YOU WERE THE ONE PROPOSING IT

WHY ARE YOU CHEATING YOURSELF?

[gandalf5166]

MY PLAN HAS SUCCEEDED

I PMed a bunch of coalitions to everybody and agreed to every one I got sent so that people would be confused about which one to run with.

[gandalf5166]

I PMed a bunch of coalitions to everybody and agreed to every one I got sent so that people would be confused about which one to run with.

but you didn't run with any you fool >_>

Someone set up us the bomb!

~ All of your base party

Nope. I told the boss I didn't want no coalition. That was the point.

[gandalf5166]

nonethless, you'd be richer had you accepted

So would everybody else. I'd be way behind. Whereas now, I can still get the money back this round, with hopefully a far larger cut.

[gandalf5166]

I think everyone going bankrupt simultaneously is the inevitable outcome of this game.

Haha. Not really. The people with more seats just have to do what chenhsi did and realize that if the people with fewer seats feel like they're being cheated, they won't run with it.

[gandalf5166]

So werewolf....... You wanna join my coalition?

Twistedspoon and Zang: 110M each

Drench: 100M

Me: 70M

WW: 50M

It's more than fair.

[gandalf5166]

I'm not joining any coalition with Gandalf in it.

Chenshi's proposal seems good.

Why? I'm no longer a one-seater, I should be monopolizing my winnings while I can.

[gandalf5166]

You need a two-seater to make an alliance anyways. Unless you include mister seven seats.

[gandalf5166]

Twisted, I hate you.

[gandalf5166]

Aha, but I have $20m more than I would have had. It all fits into the Sex Party's Grande Strategye.

But if you had refused it, and waited for next round, you could have had far more money.

[gandalf5166]

>.>

I need some money >.>

[gandalf5166]

Take out yabba and replace it with me.

yabba could potentially betray you guys, whereas I HAVE to go along with it. I can be trusted, yabba can't. Not to mention everybody gets more money when yabba isn't being a douche and taking it all for himself like he deserves just as much as Zang.

[gandalf5166]

Yah just want to make sure zang is in. No reason to make this more complicated than it needs to be. If we can get this done with four players, we should.

I'm in.

[gandalf5166]

Actually- this is somewhat hard.

I'll think more later.

There's actually not a single reason why Zang would want to take your proposition over ours.

[gandalf5166]

Cause you're out of money, so he thinks you can't find a better offer. He's wrong. Do some networking.

[gandalf5166]

Hoppster, you say that TM is the only one who can't spend any money this round. But I'm pretty sure that applies to me too.

[gandalf5166]

I'm all for that. However, it does NOT ensure that Tony won't be defecting, as he will receive PLENTY more offers that may or may not be more generous.

[gandalf5166]

I'm not agreeing to anything that gives TM more than 80M and if you guys are smart, you won't either.

[gandalf5166]

That would make sense if Tony were in the lead, but that's not even close to true. Him getting 100 M is entirely reasonable.

Let me put it this way: he either gets less, or he gets nothing. Truefacts.

[gandalf5166]

Lol. Seriously, I don't give half a shit about this game. If YOU GUYS want to win though, you won't give him that much money.

[gandalf5166]

Lol. Seriously, I don't give half a shit about this game. If YOU GUYS want to win though, you won't give him that much money.

Yeah, because Tony is obviously the biggest threat here.

Yeah, cause Lowell and Zang are SOOOOOOOO charismatic.

[gandalf5166]

So my charisma is what's scaring you?

You socialist swine, just can't be happy for a brother.

I thought we were bros, bro. Then you stab me in the back like this, brah? We could've had something special, man.

I'm not stabbing you in the back. I'm just keeping mine guarded.

[gandalf5166]

Please promise to post whatever joke coalition you're trying to form if it fails.

My guess actually is that neither of them will work.

[gandalf5166]

But here's one that can:
TonyMontana: 80M
Zang: 60M
CES: 45M
Gandalf:35M

I can't think of a single way that anybody in this coalition is going to find a better deal. Several people are going out of their way to shun TM in their proposals(and Cirno, the guy you replaced me with, is one of them), so 80M is GENEROUS, and everybody else is coming out far better than they should with their number of seats.

[gandalf5166]

Oh, I seriously doubt it. I would give our chances on a successful coalition somewhere around 10%.

[gandalf5166]

Oh, I went with the anti-Tony coalition(sorry Tony, but the one I proposed was too late for me to have any real faith in it), but CES probably went with the coalition inthread that came before me while Tony went for the one I posted right before deadline.

[gandalf5166]

3 seats: Twistedspoon - 42M
3 seats: chenhsi - 42M
3 seats: werewolf555 -42M
2 seats: Cogito Ergo Sum -27M
2 seats: gandalf5166 -27M
2 seats: Cirno -27M
1 seats: Drench -13M


so yeah, i guess.

[gandalf5166]

I think the object of the game was to get out first. Thus I win.

BUT I WON TOO