Why Team Galactic's Wager needs errata

[Burninating_Torchic]

There's noting wrong with RPS.
Heck, it was a GOOD idea. Why? It adds even more strategy to the game.
There's a definite strategy to RPS - for example, most men lead with scissors, most women lead with rock (I may have the rock and scissors confused there), and paper is the least commonly used.
Keep Galactic's Bet the way it is.

 

[Adam Garcia]

There's noting wrong with RPS.
Heck, it was a GOOD idea. Why? It adds even more strategy to the game.
There's a definite strategy to RPS - for example, most men lead with Rock, most women lead with Scissors (I may have the rock and scissors confused there), and paper is the least commonly used.
Keep Galactic's Bet the way it is.

fixed

 

[MathAenya]

coin flip = 50 -50
Highest roll has different odds depending on who went first and what they roll


If I go first and
get a 1 then you have 5 out of 6 chances of beating me
If I get a 2 then you have 4 out of 6 chances to beat me
If I get a 3 then you have 3 out of 6 chances to beat me
If I get a 4 then you have 2 out of 6 chances to beat me
If I get a 5 then you have 1 out of 6 chances to beat me
If I get a 6 then you have 1 out of 6 chances to tie with me

Lol.
All that means that your opponent has 15 out 36 chances to beat you.
You have 6 out of 36 chances to tie.
And you have 15 out of 36 chances to win.

So, where do you see a problem ? ^^

 

[Dom]

It gets even more complicated when you factor in pencil.

Some people will do pencil just to confuse you.

Pencil is achieved with a pointing motion.

 

[desert eagle]

imagine this scenario:
Time is almost out, someone plays galactic's bet with the intent of stalling

they do "rock, paper scissors", the staller goes "i wasn't ready" so they redo it
2nd time, the staller deliberately goes after the other player and the other player complains, and the staller allows another redo
after the 3rd time and 30 seconds to a minute later, the staller has already won the game.

the problem i see with this card isn't the randomness factor caused by RPS

To me, It's the fact that this offers people with the intent to stall out a game a bigger window to do so.

 

[Jaeger]

If this card is played against me and I have to do rock paper scizors, I would not do it without a judge watching and I'm sure quite a few other people will be the same way.

 

[ZAKtheGeek]

coin flip = 50 -50
Highest roll has different odds depending on who went first and what they roll

The overall odds of either player winning the roll are 50% anyway. Do you honestly think that people have been rolling for first for untold years if it's somehow an unequal random event?

 

[Bolt]

highest roll is even for both players. assuming both players use the same die or dice, there is an equal chance for them to roll any number on the die.

this is gonna be an ugly couple of years with this card in the format

 

[The Captain]

Coin flip takes away the skill involved in RPS, which there acctually is, i mean there a50k RPS chamionship on ESPN2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktS7bKiB1GA

 

[Let Fire Fall]

I've just been playing high roll. I refuse to do RPS in an actual Tournament game.

 

[PokeWisconsin]

If this card is played against me and I have to do rock paper scizors, I would not do it without a judge watching and I'm sure quite a few other people will be the same way.

That's exactly why it needs to be changed to a coin flip.

 

[Shellshock929]

That's exactly why it needs to be changed to a coin flip.

It could also be used for a High Roll too, but yeah I hate RPS since people will always psych you out, even if you're not ready.

 

[Regis_Neo]

imagine this scenario:
Time is almost out, someone plays galactic's bet with the intent of stalling

they do "rock, paper scissors", the staller goes "i wasn't ready" so they redo it
2nd time, the staller deliberately goes after the other player and the other player complains, and the staller allows another redo
after the 3rd time and 30 seconds to a minute later, the staller has already won the game.

the problem i see with this card isn't the randomness factor caused by RPS

To me, It's the fact that this offers people with the intent to stall out a game a bigger window to do so.

I dunno, that's a legitimate use of time, as you're abiding by the card's effect. Granted, it would suck to lose due to that (this is why you call over a Judge to supervise that it's done ONCE in these situations and not some redos, otherwise just throw the RPS game if you're hand doesn't matter), but it's not like it's as bad as fossil stalling (which is dead now anyways).

 

[ARMondak]

I've just been playing high roll. I refuse to do RPS in an actual Tournament game.

I'm doing the exact same thing.

 

[Ardoptres]

RPS FTW, any day.

 

[celeni]

do you think a judge will want to watch everyones games every time they play rps,i am sure they will love that. if anything they should of just made it like desert shamen and make the effect automatic.

 

[charmander rox]

You tie in RPS more often that high roll. I vote high roll. This game isn't about your RPS skills. It's about your Pokemon skills.

 

[Burninating_Torchic]

I think everyone's entitled to one "I wasn't ready" per Galactics Bet played, if they do more than that, call a judge on em.

 

[drmario]

Roll a die. Whoever gets the higher roll wins. It works it is random.

 

[Dr. Mason]

I love RPS. I know just how to put an image in my oppnent's mind to, trick them.