blakebowling wrote:Dukasaur wrote:angola wrote:A standard game with 2 minute rounds wouldn't take all that long, frankly.
Exactly.
Gilligan wrote:Sequential speed would take a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle too long
Under 3 hours even on a really big map, by my calculations. Under 1 hour on some of the smaller ones. For some people that's a long time, but for most it isn't.
Your calculations are way off.
In order for a doodle seq br to end in under an hour, each player would have to take <40 seconds for their turn, and the game would have to end in 5 rounds.
For the benefit of those who can't see our private discussion, I bring the public part of my answer:
Dukasaur wrote:You're assuming that the game would go twenty rounds with all the players intact, which is incredibly unlikely. Assuming escalating spoils, the killing begins as soon as there are enough cards in play to make mid-turn cashes a reasonable possibility. In a four-player game, that 11 or 12 rounds, in a five-player game that's about 10 or 11 rounds, in a six-player game it's about 9 or 10 rounds, and so on. I run a lot of seven- and eight-player games; they rarely get into double digits. The more players, the sooner the killing starts. Game Ten Million, with 50 players, ended today early in round 4. (And no, I didn't win; another good reason for me to be bitchy.)
If these games go into the double digits, it's with only two or three survivors of the original field. That's about the only way an escalating game continues: if two or three survivors have not enough power to kill each other. But at that point it's no longer a BR; it's just a two-or-three player game.
Now we had this debate a year ago, I thought people understood my point. How many times will I have to prove it? I thought that's why we tried game Ten Million as sequential, to see if it really would last forever, and of course it didn't. With 24-hour turns, it went less than two months. Two minutes is 1/720th of 24 hours, so if a sequential BR with 24 hour turns lasts less than two months, it's reasonable to assume that the same game with 2-minute turns would last two hours; for sure not more than 3.
