Just writing up my Hunger Game experience, not that many will be interested but i am sure plenty thought "how can knixuk, who is a nobody and doesn't seem to do very well in challenges have survived until 3rd place?" so i figured this may help others who lack challenge experience.
I rejoined Tengaged purely to have a go at the Hunger Games fully expecting to not last very long but at least give it a try.
It is true i am "average" at challenges and i dont know many people on the site, yet i still clawed my way to 3rd.
On entering the game BBDamian skyped me straight off and i said "erm... what do i actually do?". He said "Play to your strengths" and that is what i did.
Playing the naive player who pretended to have no idea what was going on became my strategy, it was easy to play as some helpless idiot that didn't know what was happening and it was easy to then blame errors on the fact i didn't know what was going on (even though i had quickly picked it up). Hiding to be seen as "no threat" i thought would take me to the second half of the game but i expected to then be picked off.
bbdamian quickly became my main alliance. I put my trust in the fact he would help me out and i didn't waiver from that. It was a good choice. I also quickly ended up in a variety of different big alliance chats with the likes of boots22 and runner430 i passed pretty much all this information on to bbdamian to ensure he would see me as a good alliance and therefore keep me around. When boots22 and the others all started being picked off i could then easily distance myself from that group.
jenii_valenta then started to contact me, initially i think she was trying to steal health from me in fake xp fights so i refused to fight her. I had seen others fall for this so avoided it at all costs. However she did become a great cohort in the game which is why when she was heading out of the game i refused to arrow her (i knew she would die anyway i suppose) but was hopeful she may live.
Getting weapons (risky), getting health, arrows and being parts of the set ups of other people getting in to fake xp fights became my weapon. People seemed to trust me, so i played on it always maintaining an innocence and naivety. My health was really high for nearly the whole game because of this. Trying to set up chemicalali didnt quite go to plan, i was meant to fight and beat him first but he refused to fight me. However my name stayed out of the loop because he asked in his blog why bbdamian hadnt tried to kill me instead... he didnt seem to know we were working together.
As the game went on i somehow ended up alligned with gabriellaaa but this was merely as a way to dispatch the others in the end game but it worked well to get me to 3rd (i knew at this point my easy to beat reputation would take me to the latter stages). Earlier in the game i had given her some health knowing it could help me later and it did.
jordanLloydFan only spoke to me towards the end to try to get me to give him health, wasnt going to happen and my favourite part of the game was the evening when we all arrowed him out. It was really fun, seven players vs 1.
syd8239 and boomske123 tried to trick me in to a fight but that wasnt going to happen. I wasnt going to play against my strengths.
Anyway, the point is even if you are not the best at challenges, even if you dont know anyone very well you can still make the latter stages and if gabriellaaa had had less health and had had to save her DonD scores i may have made it to 2nd, alas she didnt.
Additionally people said i didnt fight and yet i did have the same XP as gothic at the end of the game (+ a mace) and was prepared to fight. He just didnt come back.
Anyway i doubt people will read this i am not too bothered, just wanted to blog it for myself.
Great game, i will probably not be playing games again for a while (or at least maybe not until the holidays)
