Here's a few, since you dont bother to browse the "Strategies" section...

XC Guide: http://kdice.com/strategies/ideas/44756528
wishbone Guide: http://kdice.com/strategies/ideas/44758234
Grunvagr Guide: http://kdice.com/strategies/ideas/44755174
montecarlo Guide: http://kdice.com/strategies/ideas/44759032

A combo of XC, wish, and Gruns guides are good to play better.

If you want to be a douche read what monte said, (Couchy: cuz monte is a douche), I mean you can't argue with that quote?

Joking of course. All guides have some strengths but it is up to you to find a playing style that you feel right with. You want to have your own style that you trust not just a carbon copy of someone elses.

Well, for the longest time I had wanted a good strategy thread. However, every thread I make has a front page survival rate of 3%

When the "Strategy" section was implemented, there was no more need for that.


However, I would like to point out this: Top ten doesn't mean they know more. It's very elitist to say so.


In fact, from my knowledge, the basiscs are nothing more than taking advantage of good opportunities, having a good reputation (i.e. nice player, not necessarily the funniest a-hole), and a level headed decision maker.

Also, understanding the interworking s of kdice-relationships is a must as well.

"Top ten doesn't mean they know more. It's very elitist to say so. "

I would _hope_ that most* members of the top ten know more than most other players. Same goes for the top 100, or wherever you'd like to make your division.

It's not elitist to say that the people who do better at something are actually, well, better. Saying Michael Jordan (yes, I'm old!) was a great basketball player or Pele a great soccer (football) player is not 'elitist,' but true.

* And I say most, but not all, to avoid the tired arguments the same people continually raise about certain players getting their points in ways you don't like, whether that be playing too many games, using the chat too much, buying points, farming, or whatever. At some point you have to admit that at least some of the top players are just plain good.

I'm not saying they're good. i was pointing out that it appeared that ONLY top ten knows really what they're doing, which is not true.



And of course, a few top ten players are really,really good. Take, for example,some of the ones fo the past, like Grunvagr or Willy or Snufkin. I haven't witnessed much of their playing, but seeing a little bit of it, and and with the understanding that during their "prime" time of kdice playing, they mastered the art.

It's no secret that the kdice of a year and a half ago was hell compared to this. I;m not saying it was any better, just that it required more skill, both in bargaining and in gameplay.

Actually, the top tables now are far tougher than when the game first started. As with any competition, the upper levels improve over time. Strategies that only a few knew back then are known by far more now.

Sitting at a 10k now is brutal, because typically everyone knows very well how to play.

I think you're looking back with rose colored glasses, which is even more impressive since you weren't even there to do so. :)

Well, i wasn't at the top tables, but I was around playing... I still consider those times ,more difficult since the skills necessary to achieve first were more difficult to master. It was a "stay in as long as possible" type of game, and while basic at first, finding a good strategy to stick with was difficult.

I think now it relies more on strategy more than ever, but it's not as difficult to get first. It was literally every player for themselves, with the occasional truce in order to have protection.

In that sense, it was more difficult.

People tend to rely on odd strategies anyway. The last game I played, a 500 round, I asked a guy why he didn't connect an 8 with a 4, through a couple of territories that had only a few obstacles. He claimed he did not want to waste the effort to open himself up to get attacked.




I asked him also if he had any faith in restacks, and he said no. What he could've done was connect, probably get first, and even though that whole area he "left" with his 8 stack may appear to be open, considering what other players are looking at (more territories, I don't want to mess with this guy) and the fact that the total amount of dice he will receive afterwards will pay for the open flank over time, therefore allowing him to hold a steady 1st and grow in power or stay large enough to keep a good second.



I even cut him, and instead of doubling back to repair it (a more wise decision than waiting, which gives the opponent another chance to weaken them if aggressive enough) he did indeed wait. eh got third, which wasn't too bad, though...

i am not top 10 but i know some secrets:

-buy your way to 1st
-PGA

wrongo bud.

See the problem is that people think the game is the game. The game is not the game at the upper tables (I would say 500 and above)

The social aspect of Kdice takes over at the upper tables. I think there is less eliteism sp? (or heck it may not even be a word)than you think but People have learned to play the social game well. You learn to read players and not necessarly the game. That is why low tables are different on 0 and 100 tables strong game play means more. On the upper tables smart people play makes more sense. Play the people not the board. That does not mean stong game play goes out the Window but everyone on the upper tables knows how to play strong so it helps to know how to read if someone is being nice to you and when they are not.