I thought I read something like if you join the derby later that is a strategy.
But is it out dated or does the moment you choose or delete your first task have any bearing on your competition?
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I thought I read something like if you join the derby later that is a strategy.
But is it out dated or does the moment you choose or delete your first task have any bearing on your competition?
If by "join" you mean when you actually start taking the first task, it doesn't matter. If you are wanting your best opportunity to win, you will start when you have all your tasks ready to complete quickly. This is most often used by single player hoods or very small hoods, as you can get the board full of tasks that you want to do. Production tasks can be completed by stacking them if your barn stays full. Train and specific townies can be served and ready to pick up their gifts. If you like doing boats, they can be called early by spending diamonds. So it is quite easy to finish 10 tasks quickly.
I have found that it doesn't matter if you can do this on day 1 or day 3. (That's the latest I've ever started) At the very least you should be able to place top 3. Good luck.
Anecdotal evidence - I often compete alone, or with one other person and I have found that by planning tasks and executing them as late as possible, I have a much higher success rate without having to complete 320 point tasks exclusively.
I could speculate all day as to WHY that is the case, but it's been working for me, so I don't over think it.
And - for clarification - deleting tasks and "grooming" your task board does not enter your neighborhood into the Derby. You are placed against other teams only when you finally choose a task to complete.
As far as I know, your neighborhood is matched to other neighborhoods for the derby from the get-go. You might not be able to see other neighborhoods until somebody has taken a task, but they can see you. Starting late is just starting late.
There may be some psychology going on, where your competition thinks they don't have much competition so they start off by taking lame tasks. Then you surprise them. If that's your strategy then I can certainly respect that. Especially if you're in a rich neighborhood that spends lots of diamonds: you could wait until a couple hours before then end, then trash like crazy so that everybody gets 320-point mining tasks, and crank out a perfect score. But the fact that this could be done in theory (and probably has been done) doesn't worry me, as there are very few neighborhoods that would do that and it's very unlikely I would ever get matched against them. And if I did it would still be fun to witness.
In our neighborhood we have people from all over the world and it's too hard to coordinate people for any strategy like this. So people take tasks right away. And we almost always place in the derby.
My guess is that people passing along the anecdotes about winning with late starts are just short-changing themselves: maybe they won because they're actually better than the competition?
I'm skeptical that this is the case because in the past I have seen people in the derby with 0 points.Quote:
Originally Posted by CheddarLimbo
Late (days) in the derby I should add.