Survivor Gabon Upgraded
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The Survivor Gabon Update has been released.
Survivor Gabon is the next Survivor season to be updated. This season includes exile island, multiple tribe changes, a double tribal council episode, and a fake merge. Along with the Exile Island idol, a real idol is hidden at the fake merge. If it’s not found or goes out of play, a merge idol is hidden. The last time that idols can be played in this season is final 6.
The next seasons to be released for Survivor will be Samoa and Heroes vs. Villains. The goal for these seasons is to include more of the profile attributes, better statistics, and jury reasoning.
Thank you to everyone who has been testing and reporting bugs. I’m also gathering feedback in the following Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Y1lgf1F9ApYuwSUQV9aLH0SNT-yYLSYMKO6z4Y2UiIo/
Survivor Tocantins Upgraded
The Survivor Tocantins Update has been released.
Survivor Tocantins is the next Survivor season to be updated. This season once again includes exile island, along with introducing a new mutiny twist.
The next season to be released for Survivor will be Gabon. The seasons of Samoa, Heroes vs. Villains, and beyond will introduce more of the profile attributes along with explained jury reasoning.
Thank you to everyone who has been testing and reporting bugs. I’m also gathering feedback in the following Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Y1lgf1F9ApYuwSUQV9aLH0SNT-yYLSYMKO6z4Y2UiIo/
Survivor Micronesia Upgraded & Saved Simulation Reminder
The Survivor Micronesia Update has been released.
This season features 2 tribes of 10 along with an Immunity Idol hidden on Exile Island. If this idol is rehidden after the episode 13 tribal council, it will instead be hidden at the merge tribe camp. Thank you for those who tested the season and provided feedback. New features are gradually being introduced to Survivor such as stamina adjustments and the ability for players to join existing alliances in events, and all feedback on these changes is welcome.
Reminder: For those of you who want to preserve your existing saved simulations, here is a description of the current deletion policies. These policies will be more strictly enforced in the near future. Please ask if you have any questions.
– Saved simulations will be cleared 3 months after the last view by default.
– Saved simulations will remain available for 1 year after the last view if the ‘Keep Longer’ option is selected in the Advanced Options page.
– Once a saved simulation is deleted, it is not possible to recover it.
– Just because your code isn’t listed on the ‘Your Seasons’ page, it does not necessarily mean your saved simulation was deleted. Your internet connection may have changed, and it could still be possible to recover it.
Survivor China Upgraded & Big Brother AU 13 Cast Photos Updated
The Survivor China Update has been released.
The Big Brother Australia 13 cast photos have been updated to include all of the housemates. In addition, Lillian’s last name has been added.
Survivor Fiji Upgraded & Stamina Added to All .com Survivor Seasons
The Survivor Fiji Update has been released.
Survivor Fiji is the next Survivor season to be updated. This season features a Have and a Have Not camp twist, and the idols function differently based on the twist.
In addition, all .com Survivor seasons now have the new Profile attribute called Stamina activated. Stamina controls how well a player maintains their energy level throughout a season, which can range from 0% to 100%. Energy allows a player to do well on challenges and perform other actions such as finding idols. Merge feasts and winning reward challenges can increase a player’s energy while exile island and poor camp conditions can decrease it. A player with low energy is more likely to be medically evacuated. There are new stamina-based events, but these are only enabled by default for Fiji and China until more testing is done to make sure the balance is correct.
Thank you to everyone who has been testing and reporting bugs. I’m also gathering feedback in the following Google Doc: Feedback Survey
Edit: The following bugs were also fixed with AU Survivor 2018:
– Beggar’s table auction winner can no longer bid on more items
– Tribe history colors spoiled colors the Save/Send twist
– Merge idol was being hidden a round late
You can keep reading for more details on Fiji’s idol.
Australian Survivor: Champions v Contenders (2018) Released
Taking a break from the US seasons of Survivor, the 2018 Australian version is the next to be released.
Thanks to bwburke for planning a way to incorporate the different twists into the season, Brandon for testing the season, and countless others here on Discord for testing and reporting bugs. I attempted to resolve all of the reported bugs, but please let me know if I missed any.
Australian Survivor Champions v. Contenders (2018)
Survivor Fiji is close to being finalized with the new “stamina” attribute, and Survivor China is also in development.
You can keep reading for a list of the twists in the season. These may contain format spoilers if you have not already seen it.
I Love Money (Season 1) Added & A Brief Hello!
To go with April Fools, Brant and I have put together and released the I Love Money simulator (ILM)!
While I returned to BrantSteele unofficially a few months ago, the idea to create a proper ILM simulator (sim) came about within the last month as a last-minute April Fools joke. Due to the time crunch and difficulty in finding the full season viewable, the simulator is unfortunately missing challenge descriptions and educated guesses had to be made regarding certain details. We plan on revisiting the sim at another time to add the challenges and other improvements. If you know of a legal source for the full season of ILM S1, contact us!
Keep reading to see a summary of how I Love Money works, or skip ahead for a brief introduction from me.
Simulator Summary
- In Episode 1, there are 17 solo contestants who compete in a challenge. First and second place become captains and take turns picking their teammates. The last person to not be picked has their check voided.
- Each team must select a new captain each episode and cannot pick the same contestant back-to-back. This occurs on the first Events page.
- Teams compete in a challenge and the captain of the winning team becomes Paymaster. As Paymaster, one gains the ability to void the check of another contestant. The captain of the losing team does not receive any sort of punishment.
- The losing team must nominate three people for the Bottom 3 during The Vault. This process is very free form in nature, thus it’s difficult to translate in a timely manner which is why not much context is included on this page currently.
- The Power Outing is simply a chance for the Bottom 3 to vouch for themselves to the Paymaster before the Elimination Ceremony and is reminiscent of rewards in other shows like Survivor.
- The Elimination Ceremony has one key feature, which is the Paymaster saving/eliminating the Bottom 3 in whatever order they choose. This is reflected on the Voting Chart as some Episodes show a BTM3 and a BTM2, while others have two BTM3.
- After teams are disbanded, the challenge winner each episode becomes Paymaster (and can be back-to-back). The contestant who places dead-last is automatically placed in the Bottom 3.
- The Paymaster does not participate in The Vault and, with the exception of Episodes 10 & 13, the other contestants must nominate two more people.
- In Episode 10, the dead-last loser has their check voided immediately and, as a result, three people need to be nominated during The Vault. In Episode 13, there are only three contestants that can be nominated and so there is no dead-last loser or vault.
- Also in Episode 13, immediately following the check being voided, it is revealed that there is a jury who will eliminate one of the remaining contestants. Now, because a contestant quit before the jury could do anything on the actual show, we don’t know exactly how jury was meant to function. We came to the conclusion that they would likely act in a similar fashion to every other group decision in the game- naming a single contestant as a group.
- The final 2 is a challenge in similar fashion to The Final Challenge in The Duel.
The voting chart is relatively self-explanatory, but here is a key for the less obvious elements.
- bold text – Team Captain
- italic text – Dead-Last Loser
- Dark Red Cell – Voided Via Challenge
- BTM3 – Was either saved first or the first person called up had their check voided.
- BTM2 – Was either called up second and saved, or the second person called up had their check voided.
Brief Introduction
Hello! This was not part of the April Fools post- I have indeed returned. I was originally going include a lengthy summary of my history on BrantSteele before and currently, as well as current/future plans, but I think for the sake of time I’ll be doing that in the next couple of days. What I will say is that I am excited to be focusing on the simulators again and I can’t wait to see more ideas become a reality. My intention was to officially return on the release of another… project, but the timing of this served itself better. That’s all I’ll say for now.
Thank you for enjoying and supporting BrantSteele for all these years and for the reception of I Love Money, it’s good to be back.
Total Drama Action Added
Ignore the author name.
It’s been a few years since the release of Total Drama Island, and since returning, I have made it a top priority to help bring Total Drama Action to life. From a surprise contestant, to Chef being up to no good and there being a saboteur, we tried to include as much as possible so we could say it is just as impressive as the TDI simulator, if not more. Unfortunately, we struggled to find a way to include the Aftermath episodes, but every other aspect of the actual show is present.
We think you’ll love it as much as I love other things.
Survivor Panama & Cook Islands Upgraded
The Survivor Panama Update and Survivor Cook Islands Update have been released. This involves a lot of new code to handle the unique hidden immunity idol for these seasons.
During the past week, a bug was fixed with Profile attributes sometimes not working properly in the .com simulators. This bug was due to a function that was originally made for Total Drama Island not translating the 5-attribute to the 8-attribute profiles that these other simulators use correctly. This has now been fixed.
Thank you to everyone who has been testing and reporting bugs. I’m also gathering feedback in the following Google Doc. Before the next season upgrade, this feedback will be analyzed, and some quality of life updates may be made to all of the Survivor seasons: Feedback Survey
Survivor Palau & Guatemala Upgraded
The Survivor Palau Update and Survivor Guatemala Update have been released.
One of the most requested features in Palau was the ability to use the tribes from the show. Similarly to Thailand, this can now be done through Edit Cast – along with choosing the starting tribes if you’d prefer. There are a few different options for visually and/or functionally excluding Episode 1, Part 1.
Guatemala features one of the most unique tribe swaps in Survivor history and the introduction of the Hidden Immunity Idol. It is also programmed using the newest version of the algorithm. Please leave feedback on whether you prefer the changes – such as the immunity winner listed each tribal council and more realistic quit/medevac probabilities and rock drawing chances – and would like these to be applied to the other seasons.
Thanks to bwburke94 for providing specific details that went into the planning of these simulator and Brandon for testing.
You can also use the Feedback Survey to provide your thoughts on how these early season upgrades are progressing. Thank you.
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