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“D&D.Sci Long War: Defender of Data-mocracy Evaluation & Ruleset” by aphyer


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This is a follow-up to last week's D&D.Sci scenario: if you intend to play that, and haven't done so yet, you should do so now before spoiling yourself.

There is a web interactive here you can use to test your answer, and generation code available here if you're interested, or you can read on for the ruleset and scores.

RULESET

Each alien has a different amount of HP:

AlienHPThreat*Swarming Scarab11Chitinous Crawler32Voracious Venompede53Arachnoid Abomination94Towering Tyrant155

*Threat has no effect on combat directly - it's a measure of how threatening Earth considers each alien to be, which scales how many soldiers they send. (The war has been getting worse - early on, Earth sent on average ~1 soldier/4 Threat of aliens, but today it's more like 1 soldier/6 Threat. The wave you're facing has 41 Threat, Earth would send on average ~7 soldiers to it. Earth doesn't exercise much selection with weapons [...]

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Outline:

(00:28) RULESET

(03:26) STRATEGY

(08:55) LEADERBOARD

(11:05) REFLECTION and FEEDBACK REQUEST

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First published:

May 14th, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JAmvLDQGr9wL8rEqQ/d-and-d-sci-long-war-defender-of-data-mocracy-evaluation-and

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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