Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Class notes: 10/20/10

What are the main points for the game?

Jesse: Cooperation: You need to find a cooperative agreement with another player. Not sure how you would signal this cooperation though.
Jesse: This is kinda an iterative prisoner's dilema. A "tit for tat" strategy may be effective, where you do onto others what they do onto you.
Neha: What happens if we end up with just 3 pairs, where opposite players co-operate?
DFed: You want to make sure that not only your opposite player, but also everyone who can affect you is working with you.
Daniel: You definitely want to cooperate with as many people as possible. But you can only make one move at a time, so how can you make people favor you over the long term?
EPK: If you cooperate with your neighbors, you can move directly into somewhere with higher payoff.

Lauren: If Red and Yellow are co-operating, you are working against orange
Neetha: Maybe there is an advantage to letting other people pile up the coins, then move that one pile
Zach: The best alliance to make early doesn't make any enemies - just push a player's coins deeper into their territory
Blake: Make sure that when a medium sized pile is accumulating, make sure that they slowly drift towards you

KAR: There's another issue: You have discussed varying your behavior over score. Is it score within an individual game, or over many games?
Flavio: This is important because we can build a macro/micro strategy

Daniel: If we end up with a few big alliances, we may end up with a bad, but stable case where all of the coins are together and nto helping anyone
DFed: Getting a 3-way alliance will take a lot of time to get everyoen to agree to it

Team formations:
1: Elba, Lauren, Zach
2: John, Dan, Neha
3: Pilunchana, Archana, DFed
4: Flavio, David, Blake
5: Jesse, Daniel, Neetha
6: Eva, Nitin, Elba
7: Andrew, Yang Jian, Neerja

Deliverables:
Monday - Presentations!
Wednesday - A play from each group that does something towards a strategy

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