Trivia Format

[Crazy Canockout]

Greetings, people of Trench Wars, lend me your ears.

I think that the current format of "Trivia" hosted in ?go trivia has run its course. I think that maybe a system with a winning score of 50 should be implemented, where everyone playing would have at least 10 seconds to submit their answer to triviabot. If this is possible, please materialize my suggestion, for only this would end the unfair competition. It truly is a competition of typing, and not knowledge. Trivia face to face can be played like this, since people can yell just as quickly as one another, but when we're dealing with peoples' typing skills, we should consider a better method.

[Overburn]

its more like a competition to see who can cheat the fastest, no way someone can read the question , think about the answer, and type it all under 2 seconds.

[Ikrit]

hmmm....like...

Triviabot> What is the term refering to killing someone with a bounty lower than 40?
:triviabot:!buzz
<bpm-dogbert !buzz's the bot>
Triviabot> You have <answer.length() * .5> seconds to answer.
:triviabot:noobing
Triviabot> Jacen Solo missed, BPM-Dogbert you have <answer.length() * .5> seconds to answer.
<bpm-dogbert pm's bot w/ negging>
Triviabot> BPM-Dogbert has got the correct answer, "negging".

that shouldn't be too hard of a change

[Ikrit]

umm....my way would need a slight modification to make it so it isn't like super long games

[Crazy Canockout]

Well, what I was thinking, was more like, everyone at the same time had about 10 seconds to answer each question, and the same amount of time between hints and the time up. Like, say someone answered correctly within the first two seconds, the question would remain active, but would close to answering at the same time that it usually says "No one has answered with..."

[Vykromond]

its more like a competition to see who can cheat the fastest, no way someone can read the question , think about the answer, and type it all under 2 seconds.

you don't understand much

[Overburn]

explain

[Vykromond]

i do that regularly, and i don't cheat. neither does nockm, or jacen, or qyll, etc. etc. etc.

[Ikrit]

BPM, Ganon, and Melufa don't cheat either...we just have highly trained brains that respond to the questions faster than the average joe...(aka we play more than most people)

[Dameon Angell]

What I do, at night, when I wanna host something, but don't wanna play a game I do manual trivia. I just ask random questions, it's kinda like Jeopardy.

[Overburn]

BPM, Ganon, and Melufa don't cheat either...we just have highly trained brains that respond to the questions faster than the average joe...(aka we play more than most people)

it takes me atleast 2 seconds to realsize the question has been asked and to read it, then another 2 seconds to think about the answer, then another 2 seconds to type it.

man, Im slow

[Ikrit]

well, I also do academic challenge (aka quiz bowl) and some other crap so I have basically trained myself to respond and think about things fast

[Ewan]

i do that regularly, and i don't cheat. neither does nockm, or jacen, or qyll, etc. etc. etc.

OR EWAN

I'm all for it becoming more of a pub-quiz style, where everyone gets the same amount of time ot answer. As long as that time stays at 10 - 15 seconds so people can't google.

[Azada]

agreed cc, and maybe change up the questions every week or two, so ppl who play 24/7 cant memorize the answers and have them macro'd

[Twerp]

I think there are over 500 questions so you cant macro it. Memorizing all those questions would be hard. I think they just know a lot of useless crap and bring it up really quick in there heads and type really fast. It's like Ken on jeopardy. He brings up the answers so fast.