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Re:Thousands Play a Single-player Game Simultaneously by jader201 on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @11:00AM (#7258771)
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.

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Re:Thousands Play a Single-player Game Simultaneously by dmm on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @12:08PM (#7259314)
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...

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Re:Thousands Play a Single-player Game Simultaneously by kaybe on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @11:56AM (#7259213)
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)

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