This is very difficult. Especially since there are players that will purposely keep you alive.

Best strategy is to never get cornered; stay as close to the middle as you can.

The psychology of manipulating people to move how you want them to still applys but the approach is different.

Very challenging!!

Attack the strongest players in proximity to your dice. ex: blue has 2 die you have 4, but blue has 6 die across the table where you have 2...

The amusing/aggravating part of this is that people are starting to get annoyed at Phoenix players. I actually gained 63 points before deciding to call it a night.

I'm on a quest to see how low Elo will take me (I'm presuming that once I start gaining 0 points for coming in 7th, I've reached my min score.) After that, it's go monkey go to the top, now that I've actually refined some strategies in trying to figure out how to lose that should lead me to win.

Your rating can go into negative if your opponents are low enough.

That's a pretty good gameplay idea for an unrated game, everyone chooses or is randomly assigned a position that they have to try and achieve. So everyone would be making bad plays while trying to mess up the unknown plans of others.

866....ok now how do I find out who has the lowest score? I am not trying to be competative about it but I don't know how much more I take losing..lol...I am getting a bit too good at it!

Unbelievable 68 games to reach first time 1700...
more then I thought...

There are 29,581 players. as of 1543hrs GMT and I am officially 29,581st...I think that is enough...tomorrow 6th Feb... I rise....

bump

I've started to run into alot of vigilantes went to 896 and got held into second place on purpose finished the night back up to 1100.

I've started a new strategy of trying to appear to win by scanning the board to see who has the most territories (and highest score) and attacking those players.

You have to be very careful not to give anyone an unfair advantage while pursuing 7th place...

You also have to be careful not to screw yourself by attacking some one who starts the game spread out w/o joined territories. try to leae them be as they could end up taking your 7th finish.

With all the vigilantes and the really bad players on the low tables you have to be able to anticipate the probabilities of all the players moves. You basically have to control the whole board by psychology, the lower you get.

By the time you actually get below 1000 points you should've seen enough game play and familiarized yourself with a few players styles to avchieve this.

One last thing in this way too long post. you can only go so low on a given day before the game satrs to give you good (bad) luck.

I'm trying to stay at about -30 per day ohter wise you start getting prive placements and huge stacks.

Since the game is a beta I think we're doing a major service to the game as beta testers, to flush out not only the flaws but the possibilities. The phoenix project is a definite hack but in a good and non-malicious way.... not all hacks are bad.

bump it again...