Try a 25+mm d20. Or my 12mm solid silver one. A die that heavy (~20+grams) rolls predictably, if you know how to throw it with the same amount of force every time. It's not hard. I agree that a community manager would probably be a good thing. Would probably have to start off as a paid-in-swag thing, since CB would need about 30. Scary thought.
It's also quite obvious XD. Anyway, nothing prevents people to ask to check the dice. As I mentioned in some other threads, the simpler way to "trick" the dice would be with a magnet inside, and an electromagnet on the rolling tray, so you can throw a light magnetic force that would force either the negative or the positive part to stick on the bottom (since electromagnets can change polarity with a change on the current's direction, if I remember right my physics classes). I all cases, it is kinda funny when a dice always "rolls right".
CB already has a paid-in-swag workforce that has sort of failed it with the leaks. Plus if you're only losing out on free merch, then you'll have far less incentive to uphold NDAs etc than if you could be losing a paying job, even if it's the equivalent of a 16 hour min wage gig... CB also seems to be very proud of their achievements providing Jobs to their local area too, so I don't know if that would be a factor they'd consider when looking for native English speakers. Personally I'd love to be let on the release list, given some insight into the Inner word of CB etc, and if they paid me to do it I'd be available pretty much whenever, but I don't speak Spanish much more than ordering beer, and I have absolutely no relevant experience...
I just want to second this. The coolest thing that happened in the Wotan campaign was when CB mentioned the battle report of a guy I know as one of the best in the faction. That was pretty incredible. Having the chance to see the results of the campaign I participated in mentioned in the next book, would be similarly cool. Trying to remember which factions have a slightly better HVT is nowhere near an fun, especially since it is giving a (admittedly very minor) buff to a faction that clearly doesn't need it since it is winning things.
Combined Army is not "winning things"; the Winter Winner was just for being top of the ITS. Says nothing about how good the faction is.
Well, yeah, but to be top he had to win things playing as the faction, therefore technically speaking...
NO, Del S; you don't understand! There's nothing good to say about it - it's just black; black, all black like the procession of night that leads us into the Valley of Despair! Spoiler: Losing the fight against despair. Again.
Statistically, though, one player at the top of the ITS rankings says almost nothing about the faction's balance.
I'd say it has more to do with handpicking sent reports, players still belonging to their local meta and other funsies of tabletop gaming.
Umm... They won Backdoor. Which is won by winning ITS events. Which means they win ITS events. I feel like I'm missing something.
You're assuming that all ITS events were reported evenly. For my part, seeing that Combined Army was so close to winning meant I created and played in a lot of one-shots. Someone playing, say, NA2 was likely to care a lot less since their faction had a very small chance of winning.
So you saw that CA was winning a lot, decided to play them and make them win more, and you claim many more people did that as well. Again, I'm confused where in this chain of events you think you are disproving my claim that CA wins a lot. I'm not saying that CA is broken and wins every game. I'm saying they aren't weaker than the other factions, so don't need a leg up. Giving them a bonus that makes them more effective in the game is unnecessary and can possibly lead to resentment.
@elvedril But that doesn't mean that Combined Army has a higher win percentage, just that more games were played.
According to Hellois, the numbers had been normalized, so it was not a "more players reporting wins => more points to faction". Seeing how Aleph scored so well, for example, gives credit to this.
It was just the Druze Bayram, with players totally new to the army. A sub-par performance is not surprising, at least for me /shrug
I disagree there. Hellois specifically stated that JSA was part of Yu Jing during the whole ITS Challenge...
