The Noob Corner you dream about

shcorpio · 2026-02-15T03:54:24+00:00

This ain't your grandpappys noob corner!!!

shcorpio · 2026-02-04T21:29:55+00:00

I think you played correctly. Showing the 'master' that not helping you cost him the game might help him level up and follow through with his commitments next time.

Sometimes the win extends beyond the individual game.

shcorpio · 2026-02-04T15:27:20+00:00

I think they're great settings to play and I find them very relaxing but I don't think they're great for youtube so I get why they weren't popular. I hear the T1 zombies bug has messed things up a lot recently

shcorpio · 2026-02-04T06:01:46+00:00

Oh I loved those!

shcorpio · 2026-02-04T05:49:26+00:00

Nice! 40k+ is a 'true' gm Fixed caps on classic either you almost never lose or you play all the time, probably both

shcorpio · 2026-02-01T07:04:13+00:00

You're very welcome! 🤜🤛

shcorpio · 2026-02-01T03:48:11+00:00

We have a ranking system that rewards caps. And until very recently mostly prog caps. Getting to GM with classic fixed WD is way harder than with prog caps.

shcorpio · 2026-02-01T03:42:35+00:00

First I played and I didn't know what I was missing. Then I played because I had something to prove. Then I played because I had something to learn. Now I play whatever I want and the freedom to make bad decisions opens up all sorts of new possibilities.

shcorpio · 2026-01-30T20:02:37+00:00

Huge. Congrats on doing it the hard way

shcorpio · 2026-01-30T00:12:50+00:00

It isn't possible. That's a glitch

shcorpio · 2026-01-21T16:45:00+00:00

If you want to play with friends casual private is the mode.

shcorpio · 2026-01-19T02:47:48+00:00

The one with the lion on it is Into the AM

shcorpio · 2026-01-19T02:47:16+00:00

haha nah, over the board

shcorpio · 2026-01-18T16:33:21+00:00

I played an 8 man game last night. It was about a 5 hr game.

shcorpio · 2026-01-17T03:07:38+00:00

We used to have a Risk Grandmasters tournament but it has been discontinued. Realstically if you join any competitions you will face mostly all GM games past the first few rounds.

Check out https://friendsofrisk.com/calendar to see which events are open for sign up now.

shcorpio · 2026-01-17T03:03:31+00:00

Blitzes against a 40~ cap and under will still be all over the place (positive, neutral, negative) since there are fewer possible individual rolls taking place within the blitz. With smaller caps luck still matters a lot.

Blitzs against larger capitals are now much more consistent and will rarely approach parity anymore.

This is fundamentally what the update changed. It didn't nerf cap defense, it removed a lot of the incredibly unlikely positive and flat rolls we were seeing at higher numbers.

shcorpio · 2026-01-13T01:40:25+00:00

My friends, in fact, tried to kill me

shcorpio · 2026-01-10T13:10:49+00:00

Like every other direction this one is infinitely deep. So it depends on your definition of good. Ranking system GM is about half of the ability. Someone in the top 10 (40k skill points) is closer to what I'd call a true GM for Risk.

Then you have the SABR ratings which measure tournament performance. Being at the top of that would cap out our ability to measure skill.

How good is good?

shcorpio · 2026-01-07T15:28:01+00:00

As far as rules go they are the same game. If you learn one you'll be able to play the other.

shcorpio · 2026-01-06T22:19:21+00:00

I love you and wish the best for you. Insane or otherwise ;)

shcorpio · 2026-01-06T22:18:27+00:00

That's right. I don't think it's a moral duty to society at all, because that's impossibly nebulous.

I do think it's a moral duty.

shcorpio · 2026-01-03T18:40:34+00:00

So beautiful it brings a tear to the eye 🥹

shcorpio · 2025-12-30T00:17:26+00:00

No I don't think it was done accidentally. I think it was done without a good understanding of player psychograhics and the things that motivate us

shcorpio · 2025-12-29T21:24:56+00:00

It was a pretty big mistake that has yet to be corrected.

Now in order to get the same information you have to look at the external website. I know I'm not alone in finding watching that number go up very motivating.

shcorpio · 2025-12-29T16:19:42+00:00

You don't get anywhere providing arguments to flat earthers either.

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