I just paid 10.70€ for three drinks, cheers to you!
Jokes aside, for some people 10$ seems to be the money. I went into the experiment with the default opinion that we'd all send the funds just back to you... oh boy was I wrong!
Our team had a quick survey on that topic and the majority voted for plunder and share the bounty. Surprise, Surprise mf, 10$ are 10$.
Still, I had fun and I wonder what would have happened with teams of 10 or 20 people. What's, again and again, shocking to me (speaking as an @neoxian who migrated to matrix chat), the extreme dependency and the automated reflex to pull conversations to discord. It would have been unbelievably interesting to observe the In-Team talking in a comment section, or if people really feel better in a private room - there's BEE Chat. Discord is not a friend, it's a useful foe of my freedoms.
I tried to keep the communication of our team primarily on-chain via coordination posts and comments (Team 3). But we used also Discord, but not Bee Chat (nobody answered). Hive was the least common denominator so to speak. The disadvantage was that the chat was not private and other teams could follow our progress too, but we did not compete against other teams in this game so that was ok. Transparency also helps against corruption. If everything was anonymous and hidden, it would be easier to cheat. Similar like in RL ;)
I've seen that and found it to be very impressive in terms of leadership. I posted my Excel sheet to simplify the try-error work even faster than it was debugged because I believe in the same principles and it was the community who helped me fix a thinking error I had with it. Worth to noticing the member was not part of my team, while my team was sleeping on that error - at least at that time and space :))
If we ever want to succeed your limitations of the last 5000years+ years of somewhat reconstructed human history, we have to stop working all by ourselves against each other. Let's work together to overpower each other, good rivalry, not warfare.
Doubling the funds for another experiment would be great. I am kinda glad that didn't happen lol. Would have cost more HBD. But I did have better experiment ideas. Maybe I will still do it in the future.
What is matrix chat? I do miss chatting in Neoxian club. I still use discord. I don't think microsoft bought it yet. Did it?
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https://matrix.org/ we're using the Elements App for our Splinterlands and general chat. The problem with Discord is, that they sell you out and their censorship is actually very striking, once you caught attention your just toast. They banned all channels that posted Q-Anon MEMEs, de-platformed Wall Street Bets and a single admin can just drop your whole thousands of ppl channels without checks and balances. You can't rely on that.
Considering the Game,
I guess you can see it that way, "I am kinda glad that didn't happen lol. Would have cost more HBD." but even @theycallmedan and @starkerz talked about this on their show. I think it was just great. Adding time pressure would have been stupid because you alienate the targeted audience and make it rather geek-friendly. It took a full day for every team member of my group to even read the latest chat responses. Time Zones are a real thing. But as stated in my last comment, groups of 20 people would have guaranteed some serious action. Just keep it on a level where communication is key and not scripting and logic.
I did listen to the podcast. Yes, it was nice that talked about the game too.