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It would be cool to see this done with a voting system, rather than the current system which (because of how the actual game handles input) more or less randomly selects a button to press. If, instead, it looked at the buttons pressed in the last n seconds, and then picked the one with the most occurrences, I think you'd get more of a hive-mind effect.

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That is the best suggestion I have heard so far. That would make the game really interesting and everyone would get to play.

Currently most of the input is lost, because even though the system processes every one and the game emulation receives everything, the game is still ignoring it on animation, menu transitions and so on.

I hope you don't mind if I message the profile with the idea.

Go for it.

Yeah would be interesting to have a form like strawpoll that users voted on and every 20 or 30 seconds a new command was input

This would be interesting to do, and to play with the time given for each voting block. Depending on the number of people playing, I doubt you'd need very long to get a pretty good sample for the next move.

Either way; it'd be definitely be neat

Doesn't it already accomplish this? The game accepts an input every n frames; if the chat has a higher occurrence of a certain key input it has a higher chance of accepting that one.

No. Now there is a chance that the key with the highest occurrence is selected, but in the method proposed the highest key would get always get selected.

So, right now it's anarchy. You're proposing democracy. How long until this turns into a dictatorship ruled by the players who know what's the best way to play? :)

However long it takes until one of the payers get frustrated enough to just play it by themself on a emulator on their own computer. :)

Right now it's actually still a sort of democracy; it's just that the voting system is extremely noisy.

That's exactly the idea I had when I saw it!

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