That's not at all a property of the system. It's an emergent property of us all being extremely irrational. As has been pointed out, the Nash equilibrium here is everybody submitting 0.
But regardless, I don't see how that addresses my concern that the rule change mid-game seems to target a particular player who has been executing a strategy that most likely depends on the assumption that the rules would stay the same for the duration of the game.
The cap does make the stakes much lower in that kind of express-the-largest-number competition. Before, the second-highest player was likely to have many orders of magnitude more points than the third; now, they are much more likely to have a tiny fraction of a point more, making it less worthwhile.
What I don't understand is how playing by the rules can make you a douche. If there are legal plays that you can't make without being a douche in a game this simple, those plays should simply be illegal. I don't really know why typing a number with many significant figures is obnoxious, but if many players believe that it is, the game would probably not be much worse if you weren't allowed to.
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But regardless, I don't see how that addresses my concern that the rule change mid-game seems to target a particular player who has been executing a strategy that most likely depends on the assumption that the rules would stay the same for the duration of the game.
What I don't understand is how playing by the rules can make you a douche. If there are legal plays that you can't make without being a douche in a game this simple, those plays should simply be illegal. I don't really know why typing a number with many significant figures is obnoxious, but if many players believe that it is, the game would probably not be much worse if you weren't allowed to.