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[idolpro]

When the game starts, you find something grabbing onto your ankle and dragging you under the ballpit until you find yourself sitting on a disco floor platform with your team. It is only being held up by eleven balloons.

You make decisions on a cool arcade machine where you can SELECT A TEAM'S BALLOON. If a character is blind or has no hands or smth, you can assume things can be read to you and you can automatically pick through your speech. Thanks, Alexa.

If you look over the platform, you can see a lot of sparkling rainbow spikes below.

Comments

Re: STRATEGISING

[we_meet_again]

[raises his hand]

Question!

If we're just playing one balloon in the first round, which I prefer, I would like our three target choices to be in order of who we would like to target least, of our available options.

For example, I don't want to hit LiliS! I hope that others don't as well, so hopefully they won't take much damage!

On the other hand, I expect Baritones to be playing the maximum amount of balloons, which means they may have unpoppable balloons by the time the third round comes along. That means if we wind up playing two or more balloons, they have a greater chance of not being affected by it.

Does that make sense? I'm not sure. Someone please give me a reality check.

Re: STRATEGISING

[sleeplessknight]

Oh, I hadn't thought about that, but you're right.

Re: STRATEGISING

[puzzlers]

-!

[ fff. ]

Makes sense.

Re: STRATEGISING

[heroicsacrifeyes]

It's not a bad idea, but it has to be balanced with how popular - or unpopular, a team is.

Baritones have made themselves a target with the last game, and it's possible everyone will pile on them. If six other teams decide to hit them now, whe they don't have any unpoppable balloons, they'll go down.

So we have to decide, if we want to play it now and risk helping to kill them, or risk others sending them down before they can protect themselves, and having to put one of our other teams back on the list.

Re: STRATEGISING

[we_meet_again]

Right... Them making themselves a target means that they might be other people's first choice, as well. If we send our balloon to someone less likely to be targeted, Baritones has a better chance of surviving the first round. That's another reason why I'd prefer to send a balloon to a different unit that may be targeted less in general.

[But maybe it doesn't even matter in the end since some amount of units will die even if they have more than six balloons.]

Re: STRATEGISING

[heroicsacrifeyes]

[how many people would think that way and how many people would just go straight for them... c. can't predict imeeji.]

I'm fine with targetting someone else first, what about Wild City instead?

Re: STRATEGISING

[we_meet_again]

Well...That'd be fine with me... I'd like to protect Wild City too, but I know they're the type to protect themselves, so hopefully they'll be choosing at least two balloons this time.

Maybe the next round? Give them a chance to protect themselves...?

Re: STRATEGISING

[heroicsacrifeyes]

Hmmm... then, that leaves us with avante, or maybe lilis, if we're going by who would be safest at the start.

Re: STRATEGISING

[malignstar]

... if we don't pick Baritones, that means we'll have to make Avante our first pick.

Re: STRATEGISING

[heroicsacrifeyes]

Not Wild City? Ah, I suppose they'd be facing a similar dilemma.