Re:Thousands Play a Single-player Game Simultaneously
by deletes on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @11:14AM
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Mandatory reading for non-believers.
Anarchy/Democracy Explained!: http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/1y8o60/a...
I love this comment: People are going to write dissertations on this. http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/1y6drw/l...
Re:Thousands Play a Single-player Game Simultaneously
by jader201 on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @11:00AM
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Yeah, for anarchy mode to truly work, it would be better to give 1 second or so delays between each queued command. It seems pointless to have it send them all at once, or only a few ms apart.
As for democracy mode, it seems to be sending a command once the top command receives 100+ votes.
Re:Thousands Play a Single-player Game Simultaneously
by dmm on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @12:08PM
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There is a huge lag on the stream, around 20-30 seconds meaning if you send a command you are controlling the game 30 seconds later.
When democracy is in effect it takes votes for a time period(5-10 seconds?) and then chooses an action.
http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/1y8o60/a...
Re:Thousands Play a Single-player Game Simultaneously
by kaybe on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @11:56AM
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The german newspaper Spiegel Online claims that the democracy mode waits for 5s to choose the most popular command.
(http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/games/twitch-plays-pokemon-ze... , in German)
democracy seems to be a system in which everyone votes and the command which is more popular is executed (i don't know the timeframe).
to switch from one mode to the other 75% of votes are required in some timespan