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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman
Here's a wild suggestion....
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I like your idea, but it is a bit too susceptible to teams only appearing to help. What if the teams themselves rather than the judges were given a few tokens (labelled with their team number) that they then distributed to helping teams. If you wanted a team's tokens, you help them in a useful fashion. I could show up and appear to be helping another team on their laptop, but maybe I can't understand their code and can't actually help. It wouldn't be terrible if a judge gave me a token for appearing to help (after all, trying to help is a good thing to do too), but it could be gamed.
Rules for deployment of GP tokens could say: "each team on an alliance can only use one per match, and the one they use cannot be from a team on their alliance". This would prevent teams from spending their own tokens, and would prevent an alliance from swapping tokens beforehand.
On the dark side, however:
-What if someone helps, but a team deems it 'not enough' to hand out a token? Bad feelings would come up pretty quick in that situation
-A problem with both of our ideas: Teams seem to be pretty good at helping each other right now out of altruism. Putting a "they're only doing this because they want the in-game bonus" slant on it might actually depress GP.