Thread:Enchanteddragons/@comment-32460917-20190521090256/@comment-32460917-20190527041225

So I’ve been busy with a roleplay server called ‘The Quindex Games’. It’s a killing game where every ten days, all remaining players meet together and vote for who they think the mastermind is.

The second game shows that (1) the mastermind surrogate/manager of the game (Sedec) won’t lie, but he can withhold information, and that not voting causes your vote to land randomly on one of the remaining participants

I was wondering about a scenario for game three (since I’m one of the participants)

Voting for yourself is an option in every round. If Sedec were to tell the players or if the players were to decide that themselves, they could all choose to vote for themselves, resulting in one vote for everyone. That’d be a tie

I asked the admin of the server and she said that that would result in a revote (and I’m guessing that any tie would result in a revote since someone had to die each time) but the characters don’t know that, just like the game two cast didn’t know a no vote would be a random vote. So this scenario could work for round one

I wanted this scenario to kind of be a prisoner’s dilemma, but it isn’t really exactly. If everyone followed the plan, everyone would only have one vote so there’d be no majority. However, all it takes is one person to vote otherwise and the person they vote for would have majority vote and die

The dilemma would be: are you able to trust that everyone will vote for themselves? Maybe someone would get cold feet and choose not to vote, meaning their vote would be random and then there’d only be a 1/15th chance of the plan working (since there are 15 total players and this would probably only work first round) Plus, if someone else decides to vote you, that means the amount of votes on them would be 0 and they’d be safe from another betrayer who might want to vote for them. Of course, it’s possible that there are multiple betrayers and that another tie could occur. But there’s also the chance that two betrayers will vote on the same person

If the last game is any indication, the voting results will also show who voted for that person who’s gonna die. So if you betray, it’ll be clear that you did and everyone will distrust you. However, another scenario is that the person voted voted for someone else, but three people voted for them still and all four would be revealed as betrayers

Anyway those are just my thoughts