- There will generally be 24 hours for each challenge followed by 24 hours for the voting phase.
- There will be an extra 24 hours for the voting phase (so 48 hours total) for the game’s start, after each swap, and after the merge.
- There may be certain challenges that extend the challenge period.
Important Contacts
Head Moderator: Zoraster#9525
Co-Moderator: MontyWhittaker#6697
ProductionBot (add to your conversations): ProductionBot#7336
Listmod In Charge: xofelf#1697 (if you have a complaint with the game)
Friend Requests
You are REQUIRED to accept friend requests from ProductionBot and the moderators (i.e. Zoraster and Monty). You do not have to accept friend requests from other players, spectators, etc.. You may remove us as friends once you are done with the game (pre-jury when you’re voted out, jury when the game ends).
Requirement to use Discord
- You are required to use Discord on a daily basis.
- You are required to join the S:KYE Server (it’s where you’ll vote!)
- You are required to accept friend requests from the moderators and ProductionBot
- You are required to set a custom avatar on Discord.
- You are NOT required to use discord to talk to any individual user, but not using Discord at all to talk to other users will be considered inactivity and may result in you being removed from the game.
- You MAY use other forms of communication to talk to other players.
Multiple Party Conversations (ProductionBot)
You MAY use Discord to talk to more than one other person at a time on your tribe,
BUT you must add ProductionBot.
If you are having a private conversation with 3 or more players (including yourself), add ProductionBot (ProductionBot#7336) and NOT any of the mods themselves. This will keep our personal DMs clean for player questions and so forth.
You are also encouraged to add ProductionBot to 1 on 1 conversations with other players, but this is
not
required, particularly if you plan to have very personal conversations you don’t want viewers to see.
Do not DM ProductionBot with any questions about the game!
Those should be directed to Zoraster (Zoraster#9525) or MontyWhittaker (MontyWhittaker#6697). ProductionBot is there to monitor the game, not to respond in any way.
ProductionBot may send the occasional DM reminder to add it to your conversations but otherwise will not respond to any messages. Please remember that just because ProductionBot technically CAN see your DMs does not mean that anyone on the production team DID see it, so if you want the mods to know something, make sure to tell them directly.
ProductionBot will have several people accessing it from time to time including Zoraster and Monty and other people marked “Production Assistants.” The listmod and other Spectators will not have access to this bot.
Start New DMs to Add People
Please do NOT add other players to preexisting DMs. There is no way to prevent other people from seeing what was said if you do this, and if it’s done in order to gain an advantage, it will be viewed as cheating in the same way that copying and pasting a conversation from another player is.
Confessionals
You are provided with a “Confessional.” By default, all spectators and moderators will have discussion access to your confessional and may engage you in discussion about the game. We highly encourage you to post your thoughts about the game, copy and paste interesting conversations you’ve had, and so forth.
You may if you wish to remove spectator access to your confessional by requesting it from Zoraster. Zoraster and Monty may still copy and paste thoughts from your confessional into spectator chat.
You may request a Private Topic for use as a confessional. However, only Zoraster, Monty and Xofelf will have access to this.
Decision Booths
Your voting will be done in your Decision Booth provided.
Votes that are marked (edited) will not count, and the next valid vote will be used instead.
You will also use the Decision booth to use most advantages and idols.
We may use a variety of ways of doing vote counts, depending on the time and availability of the moderators at the vote deadline. If we have time/are able to be fully on at the vote deadline, we may do live Voice Call vote count readings in the tribe’s voice chat room or the tribe’s discord room. The vote counts may be done one at a time (ala real survivor) or done in a single post for the sake of time. The vote count results (e.g. X votes for Player A, Y votes for Player B) will always be posted as a summary in your tribe’s discord channel after any live reading, and who is voted out will be posted in this thread.
We will try our very best to get all votes out and the next challenge posted within 30 minutes of the vote deadline ending.
Twists, if there are any, will be very mild in this game outside of the information provided here.
Challenges in this game will generally have a 24 hour deadline. Most challenges have a maximum time limit to keep players from having to dedicate too much of their time.
Where to Find Challenges
Challenges, challenge results, and voting results will all be posted in this thread.
Things You Need
- Image editing software (MS Paint is fine, Paint.net, Photoshop, etc. are all fine)
- Access to an image posting site. Imgur is easy.
- Generally these challenges will be easier to do on a laptop or desktop computer, but most can be accomplished on a phone.
A word of advice
Many challenges are timed and require a screen shot that is then uploaded into an image site like imgur. On windows computers, you can hit Windows Button+Shift+S and then drag a window around the screen shot you want to copy. Then hit Ctrl+V on the Imgur new post site to copy that screen shot quickly. Even if you are editing something on MS Paint, it’ll generally be quicker to screen shot that rather than export it as an image.
It also pays to have your image posting site open as well as the submission form filled out (don’t hit submit obviously). In many challenges, seconds can make the difference.
Did Not Finish/Did Not Start/Maxed Out
Unless stated otherwise, in the event of not finishing, not starting, or reaching the max time limit scores for challenges will take the worst overall correct submitted outcome (e.g. longest time for a fastest time challenge, lowest score for a high score challenge, etc.) and apply a modifier to it. Many challenges will still have a maximum time so that no one has to struggle for too long.
Did Not Start
: Worst correct submitted outcome made worse by 40% (if applicable), not limited by the max time limit. Make sure you start every challenge!
Did Not Finish/Submit
: Worst correct submitted outcome made worse by 20%, up to the max time limit (if applicable)
Incorrect
: Worst correct submitted outcome made worse by 20%, up to the max time limit (if applicable)
Reached the Maximum Time
: Worst correct submitted outcome made worse by 20%, up to the max time limit (if applicable)
Examples: if it’s a puzzle where the max time limit is 60 minutes and the fastest time is “best” where the slowest correct answer was 34:12. If someone started but did not finish or it was incorrect, they will have their time set to 41:02 (which is 20% slower than the slowest correct answer). If the slowest time was, on the other hand, 55 minutes, then an incorrect answer would earn 60 minutes as that is the max time.
If a challenge uses a high score where the lowest correctly submitted score is 200, then an unfinished challenge would earn a 160.
Anti-Throwing Measure
If there are no submissions that are incorrect, did not finish or did not start, the worst correct answer shall be set to no worse than 20% worse than the second worst correct answer. This is to prevent there being incentive to DNF/submit an incorrect answer.
Idols and Other Advantage Information
General Known Info
- There are quite a few idols and advantages in this game.
- You will
always
know how Class A and Class B idols are going to be awarded and how to get them.
- Other advantages, including revote idols, may be awarded in non-transparent ways.
- There are no “hidden” idols that require doing weird things within the game to earn.
- The prevalence of idols and advantages given out will reduce as the game progresses.
- The method of awarding advantages will vary, but generally it is to your advantage to do as well as possible in challenges.
Giving Idols or Other Advantages to Other Players
Unless the idol or other advantage says otherwise, all idols may be given to another player in the same tribe by informing the mod in the decision booth that you are giving the idol or other advantage away. Idols given to another player are received at the start of the
next
TC. In other words, you cannot give an idol while in the same Tribal Council as the recipient receives it.
Take note that this is different than many other games!
Clarification: You may still PLAY your idol for someone else's benefit at any time before the deadline. This rule is only about giving the idol to another player.
Trashing an Idol
You may choose to trash your idol at any time (most useful if you are worried about the Idol Detector). Trashing an idol will be processed before Idol Detector results are processed after a challenge.
Using an Idol
To use an Idol and most advantages, say that you are doing so in your decision booth. If you do not indicate who you are playing the idol for, it will be assumed you are playing it for yourself. If the mods read the votes live, either via voice or text in discord, they will give people the opportunity to play their idol.
However, this is only for dramatic effect.
The idol must have already been played in the decision booth, and an idol played in a decision booth will be played at the tribal regardless of whether someone actually speaks up.
Choosing a Revote Idol
Any time you would have been awarded a Class A or B idol, you may immediately tell the moderator you would instead like a Revote Idol. You must do this as soon as reasonably possible.
Types of Idols and Other Advantages That Are Possible
Not all will be used in this game!
Class A Idols
Class A idols are normal idols. They may have an expiry date (expressed as “Final X”). They may be countered by an idol nullifier (see later), but will still work if other Class A or B idols are played. Class A idols are always played after Class B idols. Class A idols are not detected by Idol Detectors. No idol may be played after Final 5.
Class B Idols
Class B idols work as normal idols IF and ONLY IF there is no Class A idol played. In the event both Class A and Class B idol(s) are played, only the Class A idol(s) will work. Class B idols may have an expiry date. Class B idols may be countered by an idol nullifier. Class B idols are always played before Class A idols. Class B idols may be detected by an Idol Detector. No idol may be played after Final 5.
Revote Idol
A revote idol is AUTOMATICALLY played by whoever holds it if there is a tie where the holder is eligible to be voted in the revote (i.e. is one of the tied players). In the case it gets played, the mod will announce it to the group and a revote will be held if one is necessary (i.e. it was a 3+ way tie to begin with). If it is not necessary (i.e. it was only two people tied) then the one without the revote idol is removed. A revote idol CAN be countered by an idol nullifier. A revote idol may be chosen instead of an idol with the same restrictions (e.g. Final 9) as the idol the player would have earned, provided the player indicates to the moderator immediately that they wish it to be a revote idol.
Idol Nullifiers
An idol nullifier may be played during any Tribal Council. To play, indicate who you are playing the nullifier on. If an idol is played on that person, the idol does not work and votes against that person count. An idol nullifier only nullifies one idol, so two idols COULD be played to still protect a player. Class B idols are always played before Class A idols, so in the event of a Class A and a Class B idol being played on the same player, the Class B idol is the one that will be nullified.
Class B Idol Detector
Allows a player that holds it to detect Class B idols. It does not detect Revote idols or Class A idols. This advantage is used by telling the mod in your voting booth that you want to play it on another player that is in your tribe. You may
ONLY
use it during the challenge phase (i.e. not at TC). It only works once. Results will be processed at the end of the challenge you use it in. Idols that are no longer operative will not be detected.
Steal A Vote
During any Tribal Council through the Final Seven, the holder may tell the mod whose vote they are stealing and who they’re using it to vote for. If the person whose vote was stolen used a Double Vote that round, the user of this item would not steal the extra vote.
Double Vote
This advantage gives the holder the power to cast one additional vote in any Tribal Council through the Final Six. The holder may tell the mod they wish to vote for the same person twice or one time on two people. If a Steal A Vote is used on someone who used this item in a round, only one vote would be stolen. If the person who used this item voted for two different people in a round where a Steal A Vote was used on them, the person they listed FIRST in their final voting decision would be voted for.
Safety Without Power
If you get this power, you may use it by telling the mod in the public game thread that you are leaving that Tribal Council. This power may only be used by the holder, and it must be used before six hours have elapsed in the Tribal Council it’s used in (you may also conditionally use it prior to the Tribal Council beginning).. When this occurs, the player is removed from the Tribal Council and cannot vote and cannot be voted for. They also may not communicate with other players until the relevant Tribal Council ends. If applicable, a deadline extension may be granted if any players require it.
Communication Device
This allows the finder to give a walkie-talkie to one other player on their tribe. It must be given to someone by the end of TC. If swapped, it allows them to continue to communicate with each other using a channel the moderators will set up on the game’s Discord server. Once two players are connected, it cannot be given to anyone else. This lasts until a second swap (in other words, two players are connected then a swap occurs and the two can communicate. Once the next swap occurs, they may no longer communicate using the communication device).
Avoidance Advantage
Don’t want to be on the next tribe with someone? You don’t have to! Tell the mod in your decision booth who you don’t want to be swapped with next swap. You may pick anyone still in the game. You may change your pick as many times as you want until 1 hour before the final TC’s deadline before a swap. If you don’t pick anyone, your advantage will go away on a swap, so it’s your best interest to pick someone as soon as you get the advantage.
Majority Advantage
You
may
choose to use this by playing it in your decision booth. On the next swap, if your current tribe makes up the majority of any of the new tribes, you will be placed in that tribe. If neither new tribe has a majority from your current tribe, you will be placed in the tribe with the most current tribe members. If all tribes have a majority from your current tribe, this advantage will have no effect. If there is equality among all new tribes, this advantage will have no effect.
Format
- This game will use a Final 3 Final Tribal Council (FTC).
- The winner of the Final Immunity Challenge at Final 4 will automatically go to FTC.
- If there is a tie in votes at F4, there is a known firemaking challenge (see later)
- The FTC will take place entirely in this thread. No discussion in Discord is allowed except between the three finalists (good natured banter!)
- Players in FTC will have 24 hours to write an opening statement.
- The winner of the Final Immunity Challenge will choose the order for the players to give their Opening Statements. Players will post their opening statements in a Private Topic provided by the moderators, and the moderator will post it for them.
- Jurors will then get 48 hours to both ask questions AND vote.
- There will be no official closing statement, but players may obviously post their final post at any time during the 48 hour question and voting session.
- Each FTC participant will cast a vote during this time too. In the event of a tie, the person with the fewest votes will cast their vote to break a tie. For example, in the event of a 4-4-0 or 3-3-2 jury vote, the person with the 0 and 2 votes respectively will cast the decisive vote as a tie breaker.
Jury Questions
Each of the 8 jury members will get THREE posts in the Tribal Council. These posts can be as long or as short as you wish. FTC contestants may make as many posts as they wish.
Firemaking Challenge
()
At
the start of the game
, the firemaking channel will be open. The channel will have a 2 hour time control. Every midnight-to-midnight EDT period if you post in the channel, you earn a point. You do not get any additional points for posting more than once. If you are eliminated, you
may
(it is not mandatory) "will" your points to another player still alive in the game (not necessarily in your tribe). The player will not be told that you willed them your points. You will will any points that you received as well, even though you don't know you have those. If there is a tie at the Final 4 tribal council, the tied player with the most points (their own points + any willed points) will win the firemaking challenge and be the third player in the FTC.
Spectators, Production Assistants and Ponderosa
Spectators
Spectators (also known as Viewers) are people watching the game for entertainment. By default they have access to:
- Spectator Chat, along with the mods. This is the primary place they’ll chat with each other about the ongoing game. There will generally be new channels created as the game goes on so that it’s easier to search after the game.
- Edgic/Summaries (View Only).
- Confessionals. They have both read and write access to confessionals by default. Players MAY opt-out of this by informing the mod/hosts.
- Tribe Chat (View Only).
- Ponderosas (View Only).
- Voice Chats (Listen Only)
- Reading Votes Voice (Listen Only)
Notably, they do not have access to Player DMs or Decision Booths
Production Assistants
Production Assistants have access to all of the things Spectators do plus they help monitor ProductionBot, write summaries, etc. Players again MAY opt-out of having Production Assistants in their confessionals just like Spectators.
Pre-jury
Pre-jury members will get access to all the things Spectators do EXCEPT they will not have access to Confessionals.
Jury Members
Jury Members will not have access to anything except their own Confessional, Decision Booths, and a Jury Member Ponderosa Channel. They will retain View Only access to the firemaking challenge andthe Merge Tribe channel, irrespective of whether they made the merge. They will have Listen Only access to the Tribal Council Voice channel.
Other Things You Know About the Game
- Jury begins at 11. The merge may be at 11 or before or after the jury starts.
- There will be at least 3 “rounds” after each swap (a round is an immunity challenge and a tribal council)
- There are few, if any, live challenges (a live challenge is where everyone has to be on at the same time to play a game)
- Most challenges will take an hour or less to play, but there
will
be exceptions to this.
- The first tribes will be sorted non-randomly. There are a number of ways the game may be cast, but it is possible that the game will be cast on the basis of experience (a “Fans vs. Favorites” type of arrangement). However, with the exception of possible advantages that are listed before (i.e. Majority Advantage and Avoidance Advantage) any swaps will be made randomly.
- Don’t read too much into this information (or even what constitutes a “puzzle”), but just to give you a vague grasp on what to expect the challenge landscape to look like: expect
roughly
half of challenges to be puzzles of various types and half to be other types of challenges. Again, this is not necessarily exact but will be roughly
the case both before and after the merge.
.