How to win at long term psychological warfare in games
1. Establish yourself as a pathological liar. Lie through your teeth. Do this constantly. This works especially well in games where cheating and lieing have penalties, because nobody expects you to do either, thus making it essentially a skirmish in psychological warfare.
2. Use your strengths to their fullest. Incorporate details about yourself into your fabrications. Are you a studying programming? Mention an article that you just read relating to the mathematics of the game. Throw in useless statistics. NEVER STOP TALKING. This will piss your opponents off to no end.
3. Begin to tell the truth. Once you get to the point where absolutely EVERYTHING you suggest is double checked for factualness, start telling the truth. Start using real math and words that aren’t made up. Mention real articles and studies.
If you do all three of these things you will establish yourself as an unholy terror on the gaming battlefield. Once you master these things and have a good (or bad?) reputation continue to the next phase.
THE NEXT PHAAAAASE
Hopefully while being a pathological liar and unholy terro, you practiced a little bit at the game. If not, you are an idiot. If so, you should have /some/ rudimentary skills and strategies. This is good. Start using them. But never overuse one. Have multiple backup plans and ways to harrass your enemy. Constantly threaten or attack your enemy. Disrupt their resources. Every second that they deal with your bullshit, they don’t spend thinking of a new strategy.
After doing this for some time, you should have quite an arsenal of distracting strategies that you can pull off in your sleep. If not keep doing them. Once you can do them in your sleep though, work on an offensive strategy. Work at maintaining both your distractions and your offensive strategy. Learn to be EVERYWHERE at once. Make your presence know everywhere the opponent looks.
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And then do some other stuff…
Quite honestly i dont know where i was going with this…
But there might be a part 2? =D