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The Red Team Wins
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CowboyNeal
on Sat Jun 14, 2008 09:03 AM
from the every-last-leg-up dept.
from the every-last-leg-up dept.
Voltageaav writes "Recent studies indicate that in both First Person Shooters and even athletic competitions, wearing red gives you an advantage. It's speculated that this distracts the other team slightly due to the psychological aspect of people turning red when angry." Of course the Blue Team loses — as evidence I submit the history of the Detroit Lions.
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I disagree. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I disagree. (Score:4, Interesting)
As an aside, people also turn red when they are embarrassed or drunk, so wouldn't the psychological effect cancel itself out?
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Does Red Cost You More? (Score:5, Informative)
As an aside, people also turn red when they are embarrassed or drunk, so wouldn't the psychological effect cancel itself out?"
Funny...I remember when I bought a red Corvette...that everyone told me not to get red, because it would make your insurance higher. I'd heard that all my life.
I called State Farm and asked them if color mattered as to my insurance rate. Nope.
What matters is your driving record, your sex, the price of the car (repairs), and it seems these days strangely enough...your credit rating?!?!
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Re:Does Red Cost You More? (Score:4, Informative)
Source: http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/redcars.asp [snopes.com]
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Re:Does Red Cost You More? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Does Red Cost You More? (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:Does Red Cost You More? (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah....like that is gonna happen in a red corvette.
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Re:Does Red Cost You More? (Score:4, Interesting)
So while your insurance company won't fault you for getting red, your chances of getting a ticket increases. And, with more tickets, your insurance rate goes up.
There might be statistics out there to back me up, or not.
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TF2 Stats say... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:TF2 Stats say... (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:TF2 Stats say... (Score:5, Interesting)
In any of the Attack / Defend maps blue plays the attackers, and red plays the defenders.
To keep things fair the attackers respawn a lot quicker than the defenders (since the attacker has to respawn and run halfway across the map, while the defender usually respawns only a short walk from the final defence point).
Since waiting 10 to 20 seconds to respawn is pretty boring a lot of servers reduce the respawn rate, this gives a major advantage to the defenders (red).
So why do red have a slight advantage in other TF2 maps? After someone has played TF2 many hours, they'll realise that they generally win more as red, they may not analyse why they win more, but the end result is players with a lot of TF2 experience tend to join the red team without really thinking about it.
Personally I think Tribes 2 did it right, the enemy always is red.
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Re:Wearing red? Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Red team, but not... (Score:5, Funny)
Eve Online (Score:5, Interesting)
With Eve, a hostile ship that is attacking you is displayed on screen, and also on the overview as a flashing red bar - the flashing red showing that the enemy ship has you targeted and is activating modules upon you with hostile intent.
One of the first things we do with newcomers to our corp/Eve is tell them to change the overview colour of a hostile ship from a flashing red to a solid green.
The change has had noticable effect. Before people would see the red and get an adrenaline boost, often resulting in them freezing for long enough to lose the battle. When seeing a solid green stating a metaphorical 'go go go!' as opposed to a red screaming 'Danger!' the newcomers perform better and freeze less often.
I thought wearing red gets you killed (Score:5, Funny)
WAAGH! (Score:5, Informative)
I'm black..... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm black, I can't turn red you insensitive clod.
Re:I'm black..... (Score:5, Funny)
Weird.
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Re:I'm black..... (Score:5, Funny)
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Please wear red... (Score:5, Interesting)
Selection bias (Score:5, Funny)
a test of the theory (Score:5, Interesting)
Colorblindness (Score:5, Insightful)