I love your “Lucy pulling away the football” ideas and its super impressive that this can outscore tit-for-tat.
I’m fairly sure the first idea is better than the last two if you want to play it even with a large number of clique bots as what matters is not how many times more you’re getting than them but how many times more they are losing than you (from the normal 2.5 per round). Idea one forces them to lose 3x more than you and this means its worth it if there are fewer than 3x more clique bots than mimic bots (ignoring all other bots). If DefinitelyNotCollusionBot and PasswordBot played the same tactic against the clique bots it may have been worth it even with 8 clique bots.
I love your “Lucy pulling away the football” ideas and its super impressive that this can outscore tit-for-tat.
I’m fairly sure the first idea is better than the last two if you want to play it even with a large number of clique bots as what matters is not how many times more you’re getting than them but how many times more they are losing than you (from the normal 2.5 per round). Idea one forces them to lose 3x more than you and this means its worth it if there are fewer than 3x more clique bots than mimic bots (ignoring all other bots). If DefinitelyNotCollusionBot and PasswordBot played the same tactic against the clique bots it may have been worth it even with 8 clique bots.