first again!

and that is way freaking cool

Ohk!

The dark blue which has barely any territory(number 3, 10, and 1)?
or the regular blue (17,34,15,73,57...)? i hope its the regular one.

which one are you?

The game sounds similar to Fracas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracas

It was fun game for about a week, then I got bored. If I remember correctly, topology and alliances were the important parts of strategy

orange should win (if no alliances were permitted) as they had the best starting points

Sorry, not that dark blue. We're the royal blue that's dominating the east side.

I LOVE RISK AND DIPLOMACY!!

Snively, thank you very much, for this is my favorite blog post EVER!!

Dblue should form alliance with brown. Brown will help keep orange at bay so that Dblue can deal with light blue. Brown would then go for light blue on the bottom or orange's flank on the left side since green is too strong on the top. Blue's main problem is then orange if green doesnt attack orange on the flank and decides to go for brown. Since Dblue is massing on the right corner it should keep going on and take over that area. Going for the far left would create greater border area to protect, so expand from the corner vertically.

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This is depressing :(

Hey Michael, this is soooo awesomee!!

Just a quick question before I give any suggestions though - what decides which colour wins out if a building is attacked? Is it the size of the area attacking? Or is there a secret division of armies you're not allowed to disclose?

This reminds me of Conqueror Club. I'm still rather biased towards Risk face-to-face, though - forming alliances loses its fun factor when you can't see your friends reactions as you slowly take over all of their territories :)

WOW! HOW COOL! I absolutely love "the game of global domination" (risk)I introduced my friends to it, that is pretty much how we spend our weekends...although I must admit, Risk can ruin some friendships...hahaha...you see everyone's true colors...

WOW! HOW COOL! I absolutely love "the game of global domination" (risk)I introduced my friends to it, that is pretty much how we spend our weekends...although I must admit, Risk can ruin some friendships...hahaha...you see everyone's true colors...

Wow this is seriously way awesome Snively. Im just wondering:

1) Who at MIT came up with this super-awesome idea for a campus version of Risk?

2) Do they have any plans to market this and go all over the country with this awesome idea?

For now the server seems down or something as I can't access the game but I definitely want to check it out. And I'm also offering my help to get this launched across the country if the team needs any help. Once again, AWESOME post!

dumbest thing ever: McCormick and Campus Fraternities as a group? Who...what...gah!!!

That looks like some amazing fun.
It totally does remind me of Fracas.

MIT students just keep coming up with better and better ways to show how MIT life is, in a word, studly.

I love Risk and also this awesome game of campus Risk or whatever you call it. I agree with the comment about bringing out true colors but I'd have to use angers instead.

Once I had almost conquered Asia when only a few turns later I was almost wiped out. In a fit of rage I screamed "I HATE YOUR F***ING FACE!!!" Everyone got a good laugh afterwards but it was awkward for about an hour lol

Wow! :) That games sounds uber cool... So plotting Campus Domination are we? ;)

HAH. Once on Risk, my one-man army defeated my friend's 16 troops.

He was not happy.

nice!

trust MIT to come up with something this incredible =)

go (team) blue!

I'm also playing, as a member of the Simmons team (green). We're now comfortably in control of north-central campus, and the 130 armies in the power plant (the most central territory) have now turned into 228 and are growing by the hour.

Some fun stats: In terms of territory, Simmons is ranked fourth with 13 territories - behind Next with 16, MacGregor with 15, and New House with 14. In terms of armies, Simmons is ranked third with 474, significantly behind MacGregor (609!) but neck-and-neck with Next (484). Fourth and fifth are Burton-Conner and New House with 300 and 255 respectively. A total of 827 players are registered, about 20% of MIT's student body...not bad at all!

It's shaping up to be a fun game. :)

@ Kevin Xu:

MIT didn't develop this. Go Across Campus is founded by a group of primarily Yale students. If you go on Go Across Campus' website, you'll see that they ran a Ivy League risk game as well across the Ivy League schools, with Princeton dominating at the end. I think GAC is turning into something that you can ask them to do for your high school, college...etc.

BTW, I'm light blue (New House). We hold a lot of territory right now, but hmm, I think if alliances break down, we're in big trouble, because we're having trouble recruiting and right now it's more like everyone against McGregor (brown) - we'll see what happens in the end. haha.

It sounds a lot of fun. I hope MIT will expand it so all interested may join.

Well, what you wanna do is keep your borders as small as possible while still having the largest possible territory. Then again, there's no point in defending lost cause territories, e.g. Blue's No. 11 unless there's any chance to incorporate them ASAP e.g. No. 4. I wouldn't waste my armies on No. 11 though, they're dead meat.

I would probably go ahead and try to take Brown's 78, 20 and 6, Orange's 5 and Light Blue's 1. As I said before, small borders are easier to defend. That's why I would also try to concentrate on rim territories instead of going central since they can be attacked from only one side. These are just some suggestions... Great blog though, keep us posted.

Greetings from Germany.

Just a note- uh, we didn't actually come up with this game.

Risk pwns. I wonder if I will pick my dorm based on how well they're doing in GXC...

Yeah guys, this wasn't invented by MIT, we just play it. It's mucho fun.

I play on Conquer Club too from time to time. A great community if you like Risk.

This game sounds much better though. Brown looks like a powerhouse; good luck Snively!

Are you the master, yet?

Oh I gotcha... Thanks Oasis (Chris), Jess, and Snively for the clear-up, haha. Aw well, looks to be very fun!