Many games already implement some type of “long tail cutoff”
e.g. the aforementioned Risk starts to exponentially (ish) jack up the card values to force people to kill for cards and to tip the scales faster and faster as the game goes on
However often friends and I would intentionally not do that because it’s more like approach a 50-50 chance with more randomness
So we would cap it at some point or apply some other control to allow the game to remain “fair”, but then it takes an eternity
A more interesting way to operationalize this I think would be to roll a die and then accept the results.
e.g. 85% resignation—we roll, if number is 1-5 you win, if number is 6 I win
So there is still a winner / loser it is just massively accelerated
Many games already implement some type of “long tail cutoff”
e.g. the aforementioned Risk starts to exponentially (ish) jack up the card values to force people to kill for cards and to tip the scales faster and faster as the game goes on
However often friends and I would intentionally not do that because it’s more like approach a 50-50 chance with more randomness
So we would cap it at some point or apply some other control to allow the game to remain “fair”, but then it takes an eternity
This feels like an interesting alternative