Talk:Sit down next to Mr Apples/@comment-178.37.113.168-20180211070617/@comment-25219384-20180211140616


 * 1) I'll start with your last point: FBG are famously in favour of assymetrical design. Yes, the Yacht is expensive and the are cheaper items that give Respectable. So what? For reference, getting the Zubmarine is considered significantly more expensice than the Yacht, measured in actions, and it gives less BDR. The game is assymetrical by design.
 * 2) You've started by presenting a dichotomy: either you are unlucky or the FBG cheats, and cleaimed that the latter is more likely. I've replied the the former is far more likely.
 * 3) FBG have never before behaved in a way which suggested they play unfairly. In fact, they've often been more than generous to player concerns and the occasional complaints.
 * 4) Give that this game has an active playerbase who have been analyzing the results of actions for years, it's very unlikley (though not impossible) for such statistical manipulations to go on without being discovered. The community as a whole have been collecting and sharing info on success/fail rates (and also rare success rates). Without exception, the data has always supported the theory of fair play.
 * 5) Obviously, we can't prove that the game is fair. That by itself is no reason to subscribe to conspiracy theories. You can't prove a negative. # In short: Suppose for a second (as an excercise) that the game is fair. You admit that multiple failures are possible in this scenarios (even highly likley to occur to *some* of the players). Would anything convince you that the game is fair?