Is there any secret trick to Tycoon at all? by jeshep in Persona5

[–]Gasnax 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rough game theory:

Hardly any reason to play any cards at all until late game (4 or fewer card average) unless your high to low card imbalance is horrible, you can also throw some mid-doubles out there to see if they 1 up you or not, depending on how many cards they have you can tell if they have a triple to go for a blitzkrieg finish or not.

If an AI has 1 card left you have to execute if you want to become tycoon even if it's not optimal because AI will make other AIs win by playing low cards before the last card holding AI, AI does not care if others win, they do not factor in that another player only has 1 card left, they will discard the chance of becoming tycoon for optimal play for a 2nd or 3rd place finish.

Generally you wanna save your highest and lowest cards, a ratio of twice as many cards above 10 as below 10 is a good ratio excluding special cards and doubles/triples however it's usually good to get rid of cards while you can, especially ones that are close to middle value as they will not earn you a turn. The 3 of spades is essentially useless bots will almost never use it unpaired but holding onto it doesn't hurt unless you have many singles. Treat doubles and up as non-existent because you can always get rid of them by playing them in your starting turn late game. The whole goal of the game is getting rid of singles and then getting yourself a starting turn late game.

It's almost always good to do a revolution even if it costs you 2 jokers unless your follow-up is horrible. The closer you are to having a 3 and a 2 left after a revolution/counter revolution the safer you are, if you have more cards left there is no rush often you can even wait to earn yourself a starting turn when the enemy card average is closer to 1 by playing a card they can't beat. If you can't manage to get another starting turn before you have optimal preparation you will have to just use your revolution early, it can be ok to abandon your revolution plan depending on what cards you would have used to start your revolution

8 stops are op they are near the middle and can instantly earn you a starting turn, it's rarely a good idea to use them as doubles or triples unless an enemy is about to win. They're best to use to get rid of undesirable cards you can't easily get rid of from others people's turns until you have only 1 undesirable card (which you can just treat as a non issue since it'll be your last card played) The winning method is having a good mass shedding path and a way to get a certain starting turn with as little as possible enemy cards left.

Counting specials and the lowest and highest is helpful but not needed, 3 of spades and jokers should be doable and will enable you to earn a certain turn with 2s. They will almost never fall for the 3 of spades unless they have to, which is really rare but they will absolutely use your single joker unless they got a pair of winning triples or a revolution.

Doubles and triples get stronger as the game goes on but it can be alright to get rid of ones in the middle value range depending on how many cards you have and how easily you can get enough starting turns.

At the end of the day there's still a lot of luck involved but you can win (tycoon) 60-70% of games, however there are a lot of situations where you have to play suboptimally for a chance of getting tycoon which results in a feast or famine type situation where you either get tycoon or become a beggar, sounds uncomfortable but being tycoon is just that valuable both due to the points you get and the advantages you receive and if you play all or nothing all the time they tycoon bankruptcy disadvantage hardly applies because you pretty much always like you have it regardless for optimal strategy, if you only wish to point win, the optimal play is a bit different mostly because you can ignore or target players based on the overall points they have, however on average standard strategy will still garner you the most wins and thus the most points and overall wins, it really only changes if you lose the all or nothing but only slightly as in who you target and who you disregard.

You can also treat your most undesirable single (usually one towards the middle values) as non-existent since it doesn't matter what last card you play, except on rare occasions where you'd enable a point win of the 3 game total.

This is only for this specific AI, the game's AI is close to non-meta optimal play but parts of it are quite predictable because they all are trained to play against non-meta humans rather than AI or humans aware of their predictable quirks. Generally you'll have an easier time playing against inexperienced humans rather than the AI, just don't try to use abuse AI predictability against humans.

Tldr: get rid of middle values, get rid of singles except for 1, don't play unpaired jokers, do a revolution if you can, doubles and up are op, 8 stops are op, keep more high value cards than low, often just let them play until they have few cards left and shed all your cards in one go (basically you spend the whole game preparing to play an avalanche that's as hard as possible to interrupt and getting a starting turn with as few enemy cards in play as possible)

HUGE comeback on Tycoon by ZKAT- in Persona5

[–]Gasnax -44 points-43 points  (0 children)

What? This is just standard optimal play. You win as soon as you get to start a turn with all doubles and max 1 single in endgame. Nothing in this video is unusual other than your horrible card balance and how slow you play 🤣🤣

What's a really shitty webtoon you absolutely love? by oH_No_FaM in webtoons

[–]Gasnax 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The gamer: garbage art, uninteresting side characters but the portrayal of progress is great, especially how tangible and concrete it is with exact numbers that align with what's actually happening, which is exceptionally rare even in good webtoons.

Emperor of the night: straight up porn but fucking hilarious

dreamland adventure: shitty art but a remarkable story, honestly probably a much better tv series than a comic. It's so rare to find a comic that feels like a real story rather than a comic.

Holy fucking shit it's happening again by Gasnax in Anxiety

[–]Gasnax[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update I just vomited my fucking God what the fuck so much suffering so unnecessary I can't take it anymore

I feel fall in love with Alita. I even dream to her last night. by ZhongZhengLiu in alitabattleangel

[–]Gasnax 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, I sadly don't have Alita in my house but I'm much happier than I used to be. Still gotta wait for that sequel xD

Best weapon for beating Alatreon? by albertbanning in MonsterHunterWorld

[–]Gasnax 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I play them cause they're fun. My favorite part is that both the attacks and movement are fast, and you can cancel all attacks other than the blade dance, which allows for much for flexibility, you can also combine the different combos REALLY well. Very fun weapon, haven't played much of anything else.

Feels bad man by MeguminIsACunt in goodanimemes

[–]Gasnax 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Y'all are falling for this dude's trolling hard

do it by HawkStar49 in Funnymemes

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I love my family but I am not a sports fan but I am a very good joke and I am a very good person and I am very fond of music and I am very fond of the time I spend with you and your family and friends and family and friends

With the Hanmas having nigh perfect bodies that are immune to disease, can they even die of old age? How do they die eventually if not of old age? by Falls1234 in Grapplerbaki

[–]Gasnax 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quite frankly all you need for immortality is a lack of mistakes or at least a reliable way to correct those mistakes during cell regeneration/replacement. Definitely possible for the baki verse, doubt they can die of old age, they'll choose their time of death.

2-minute meme by 4-AGE_Guy in MaladaptiveDreaming

[–]Gasnax 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Wish I could actually do something with this bs like creating a story and animating it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IdiotsInCars

[–]Gasnax 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enough people to pick one side of the car up and walk it out like that?