User blog comment:Bibimbap0920/En Garde 5 - Results of Tagging: Free Players/@comment-9586391-20130523185512/@comment-70.30.124.3-20130526164035

I didn't get notification for people posting on blog post, so I (accidentally) saw your replies just now O_O

@Akmax Round robin refers to where each person meets everyone else in turn. For example, if I am to hold a round robin tagging with Eponine, FourZeroFour and you, I would first attack Eponine, then 6 minutes later, I would attack FourZeroFour, then 6 minutes later I would attack you, and this will repeat. Other people involved in the system would do the same.

One of the reasons why having more tagging partners more efficient is because it reduces potential lag for each individual. In a perfect world, tagging would take place every 6 minutes, without any delays. But as you've probably experienced in the last En Garde event, unforseen errors, such as lags/downtime and human errors, such as attacking slightly later than 6 minutes, are common.

For example, let's say you're tagging with me, and only me. And let's assume both of us have no life, and we decide to tag from 8 am to 2 am, every 6 minutes. Since both of us mastered the art of using our alarm to alert us every 6 minutes, we both gained lots of vps. But at noon, the combination of Mac & Cheese and expired Milk induces severe Diarrhea in me. Fortunately, I have mastered the sitting-in-toilet-while-using-my-phone, but due to rumbling stomach I now attack every 6 minutes and 10 seconds. In response to my digestive problem, you too shall now have to attack every 6 minutes and 10 seconds.

The recovery of health/spirit in AGG is set up so that it will start recovering each time after either stats are used. Simply put, this means that whether you have 55 seconds or 5 seconds left before your Spirit recovers, once you attack, this timer will reset back to 60. As such, with two partners, the time interval between attacks is directly dependent on the slower partner's response. While this does not greatly affect the amount of points you will accumulate, it could be a difference between obtaining a five star and a four star - as EG5 demonstrated.

Another problem is when your spirits are full, after you wake up. If your partner wakes up later than you, then you would lose your precious time (your vps), since 18 spirit attack that you normally use to get your spirits down is much inefficient than 6 spirit kotetsu attack. Having multiple partners would help mitigate/eliminate this issue completely, depending on how many partners you have.

If your partner's biological clock is identical to yours and his/her day schedules matches up perfectly with your own, then having a single partner is as good as having multiple partners. But seeing as this is extremely unlikely (border on impossible, I'd say), having multiple partners is far superior to having just a single partner.

I apologize for writing such long wall of texts, and I hope this cleared up any inquiries you had with having multiple tagging partners.