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by **BaldAdonis** on Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:48 am

Risktaker17 wrote:
Timminz wrote:
Risktaker17 wrote:You might be right, but I thought it was rejected...
references?

They don't exist sorry bud.

Fix'd.

by **Night Strike** on Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:38 am

BaldAdonis wrote:
Jamie wrote: Almost all those would stay trapped, cause you could never fort them. The only way they'd ever be useful is if your opponents conquered the countries around them.
I think that's the point. Sort of like a standing army: the armies in one country won't fight unless the battle comes close enough to affect them.

Jamie wrote: The only way they'd ever be useful is if your opponents conquered the countries around them

No kidding! In our test game, I dropped three territories in Australia. So now two behind my lines have 3 each.

It's like the national guard who stay to protect the homeland.

by **Kaplowitz** on Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:46 am

I would never play it- but it sounds good!

by **Risktaker17** on Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:52 am

its just an option so that is ok.

by **Herakilla** on Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:12 pm

Risktaker17 wrote:its just an option so that is ok.

that is never a reason to make option, there is such a thing as too many options but this idea is good enough that it merits being added

IMPLEMENT IMMEDIATLY! then ill go play 10 games with it

by **Timminz** on Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:46 pm

BaldAdonis wrote:
Risktaker17 wrote:
Timminz wrote:
Risktaker17 wrote:You might be right, but I thought it was rejected...
references?

They don't exist sorry bud.

Fix'd.

That doesn't say anything about being rejected.

by **Timminz** on Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:57 pm

So, what does it take to get a suggestion officially recognized?

by **insomniacdude** on Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:59 pm

Timminz wrote:So, what does it take to get a suggestion officially recognized?

I've been trying to find an answer to that for over a year and have yet to get a real answer.

by **cicero** on Sun Feb 03, 2008 6:24 pm

Jamie wrote:Bad idea. You start out with 3 men on each country. Almost all those would stay trapped, cause you could never fort them. The only way they'd ever be useful is if your opponents conquered the countries around them. If you have a no forts game, you'd have to make it unlimited forting for round 1, than no forts after that. That might work

Are you sure?

The only armies which would be trapped would be those in territories which only bordered with your own. An initial deployment including such territories is, I would suggest, rare. [Maps like Feudal War with auto-deploys might prove awkward though

They'd need a switch in the XML debarring the selection of "no forts" I would think ...]

Even so, it would only require another player to attack one of the surrounding territories to give that territory a target.

I think the OP's suggestion is sound.

[I find in games of unlimited, adjacent or chained forts that often I don't actually use the forts. It would be an interesting challenge, in my view, to have to play that way all the time.]

Cicero

by **cicero** on Sun Feb 03, 2008 6:29 pm

insomniacdude wrote:
Timminz wrote:So, what does it take to get a suggestion officially recognized?

I've been trying to find an answer to that for over a year and have yet to get a real answer.

There is no formal method or (automatic) formal recognition.

However it is in the interests of the mods/site owners to review posts made here to see if the suggestions (or bug reports) can be used to improve the site. This they certainly do. [Hence the name of the sub-forum

.]

I think that threads which make a suggestion articulately and discuss it constructively, with the minimum of throwaway posts, is more likely to get attention and so get 'officially recognised' - in the sense that mods/site owners contribute to the thread or mark it as "[to do]", "[rejected]" etc.

It's in our own hands ...

Cicero