As one half of Second Best Test, I wrote about my subjective experience during NDay in this dispatch. But many of you may still be wondering how two players managed to make the top ten with only 25 puppets in the faction and have a special leaderboard in which we are first. I hope this will answer some of your questions.
Noahs Second Country and y0 collaboration
How much did you two plan in advance?
Zero plans were made for a true card farmer alliance, even though more than a couple jokes were made to that effect.
How did Noah and you coordinate?
Discord DMs. I am fairly certain we are the only top ten faction in NS history to have used this mode of communication (as opposed to superfactions pinging players in a server or being an individual with many puppets).
Isn't 9003 the other owner of Big Farma?
Yes, but I decided to join Noah impromptu on my own accord. 9003's involvement in SBT can be captured in full by the statement "222 nukes were sent our way."
What's with the number jokes?
As it's in Noah's Second Country's forum signature, 2 is jokingly trademarked by him. On Discord, forums, and various other NS-related sites, I go by borromeanWhyKnot or y0. I also own zero and my XKI puppet is M0bius Strip with a zero.
N Day Strategy
How did you pull off getting so many strikes?
Roughly 300 of my and Noah's puppets were distributed between six factions for the sole purpose of creating targets for nations in SBT to attack them. We each had an additional 400 puppets in the Augustin Alliance and An Alliance of Potatoes, respectively, that served as the sources for additional nukes/shields.
What was the labour division?
We had two basic roles: 0) moving puppets to the target faction (yNaught, 2222222, 0000000, 2 Haxx0rs, Never en0ugh 2 do, brrrrrrrrrrr) and shielding SBT and 1) targeting/nuking the puppet faction and keeping an eye out for when to switch. Alternation between these roles was mostly dictated by captchtas. Other tasks included talking to our respective factions and other players to keep it alive.
How were breaks managed?
A DM and a thumbs up emoji.
What was your tech setup?
Both Noah and I are card farmers, and we have a fairly standardized suite to manage puppet switching (Firefox containers + containerize). From there we diverged a little bit, with Noah using spreadsheets, and me using modified versions of Racoda's HTML generated site and Somyrion's keybinds. At one point or another, I tried out August's and drehtisch's puppet management systems and incorporated their ideas into what became my setup.
If Noah Second Country has anything to add to this, he is welcome, and if you want to ask more questions, we'll be happy to answer them.
Edit: Links fixed
