Congratulations Raitaki and good work, Positively. I thought I'd win, but things didn't come out as I expected
Hm.. I'm sure I know almost everything about the contracts between people, but I can't even guess the content of the contract between Raitaki and rayNimagi. Did rayNimagi sell JUST ONE of his votes for 90,000,000$? Really? Is one vote worth that much? Or, is this a genius plan of Raitaki who figured out what I was trying to do?
And Az, I can't quite know why I have merely 53 votes. I think I'm supposed to get 21 votes at the end of round 10 (5 due to a contract with Raitaki - he's supposed to vote for me, and 16 due to contracts with Raitaki - He should transfer that many to me) and lose 4 (3 due to a contract with Positively, 1 due to one with rayNimagi). So, my net vote gain should be 17, and 42 plus 17 isn't 53 for sure. What the hell had happened?
In my honest opinion, I think you forgot about this contract.
Raitaki transfers 6 of his votes to zzt at the end of round 10.
zzt pays Raitaki 9,999,999$.
Well, the results don't change even after that, but this should make me look less foolish. This should explain the reason why I had this little amount of money even though Raitaki has more votes than me.
Now that the game is over, I reveal what I had planned:
In round 1 I did:
Contract between Raitaki and zzt
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Contract 1
Raitaki will buy from zzt:
All the votes zzt will cast for the remainder of the game.
The obligation of zzt to agree to Contract 2 enclosed in this PM at the same time he agrees to this contract.
Raitaki will pay zzt:
$100,000,000
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Contract 2
zzt will buy from Raitaki:
All the votes Raitaki will cast for the remainder of the game starting from the point zzt agrees to Contract 1 enclosed in this PM.
zzt will pay Raitaki:
$100,000,000
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Using this, I got 50 votes from Raitaki and he got 50 from me. Basically, you can't be the failure as long as you have at least 1/n of the total votes, where n is the number of players. Things got complicated as some people got inactive, but anyways, I thought I'd never be the failure as long as this is in effect.
After some rounds, everyone except we four got out of the game and rayNimagi sent Positively and me some PMs:
Contract between Raitaki, zzt and Positively
Positively votes at least 3 votes for zzt this round.
zzt pays Positively $15,000,000.
Positively votes at least 2 votes for rayNimagi this round, and transfers 1 vote to rayNimagi.
rayNimagi pays Positively $15,000,000.
zzt votes at least 3 votes for rayNimagi this round.
rayNimagi pays zzt $15,000,000.
zzt votes at least 2 votes for Positively this round, and transfers 1 vote to Positively.
Positively pays zzt $15,000,000.
rayNimagi votes at least 3 votes for Positively this round.
Positively pays rayNimagi $15,000,000.
rayNimagi votes at least 2 votes for zzt this round, and transfers 1 vote to zzt.
zzt pays rayNimagi $15,000,000.
So, Positively and rayNimagi were basicaly planning to exchange votes between them and make Raikati isolated. Since I was bound to the contract with Raitaki, I agreed only to the ones where I receive votes and ran away. This way I was able to get 6 additional votes, geting ahead of Rai, although I lost some money in the process. Plus, I bought 6 votes from Raitaki with 10,000,000$. That's why I have so many votes right now.
After that, I tried to sell votes with money. I said "If you don't buy votes from me, I'm sure you're gonna be the failure. Hahaha! So buy votes from me NOW!", but no one was listening to me. I lied as many times as I can to make them listen to me and used some pretty neat tricks, but nothing changed. I was pretty short on money, so I launched my genius plan B.
I did some math and figured out that Raitaki's gonna have exactly 50 votes as the game ends unless he's got some other contracts (which is what exactly happened). So, I sold rayNimagi and Positively some votes in a very cheap price so that their votes would be exactly 50 too. They did agree to this, so I thought my plan was perfect. If things went as I planned, all of you three would have been the failure with $-100,000,000, while I would have had about $60,000,000.
Well, Things got wrong for me as Raitaki got careful. He somehow bought 1 vote from rayNimagi, and that screwed my plan. I don't know if he expected this or has been just a bit more careful, but anyways, that ruined my plan for a tie - the evilest plan where I become the only winner (and the champion) and all other players fail with a great amount of debt.
GG
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