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by **PLAYER57832** on Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:06 am

Since so many people have BOB, etc, I would like to see some of those features encorporated directly into CC. Right now, those who have the ability to use BOB get a distinct advantage in some games (particularly freestyle). Since the coding is there, I would guess integrating it should not be that difficult?

As a minimum, I would like to see how many territories people have, maybe down at the bottom, without having to page through the log and count.

It would be nice to get a list of those territories you have lost since your last turn, too... particularly in fog.

All of this information is available already, this would just mean those of us without the add-ons have it more readily (without counting).

by **Woodruff** on Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:12 am

AndyDufresne wrote:
PLAYER57832 wrote:
Woodruff wrote:I know you didn't ask about these, but there are a lot of "seemingly easy fixes" from the to-do list that could be accomplished rather than one big thing?

I say that while recognizing that just because one of us may think it looks like an easy fix doesn't necessarily mean that it IS.

I know with time management, sometimes getting rid of a lot of little tasks is a better thing than knocking out one big task.

(Just a thought...)

I concur.

One example would be to average the individual ratings for each person, rather than having the new rating supercede all previous ratings that person has given (then the overal rating would be an overall average, exactly like now).

This would go a long way to fixing people's gripes on the ratings, without a huge hassle (I believe).

I think Lack is looking first for a bigger update than a couple of smaller ones---since over the last few months most of his updates have been small. It's a cycle.
--Andy

Cycle, my behind...we've got things that have been on the to-do list for more than three years. That's not a cycle, it's a wheel...spinning endlessly and getting nowhere.

by **kratos644** on Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:54 am

1v1 Team games!

by **Ugly_Moose** on Sun Aug 23, 2009 12:30 pm

Something I would like to see is a penalty for deadbeats.

If you are kicked out of a game for missed turns then the points are doubled what you loose and the other players are rewarded for sitting through this with double points.

This should discourage missed turn drop outs.

by **notyou2** on Sun Aug 23, 2009 12:35 pm

How about a system that moderators are elected by a panel that is composed of fair and honest players that aren't exhibiting fundamentalist or extreme liberal views?

by **kratos644** on Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:30 pm

notyou2 wrote:How about a system that moderators are elected by a panel that is composed of fair and honest players that aren't exhibiting fundamentalist or extreme liberal views?

But who would decide who is

notyou2 wrote:fair and honest

or the

notyou2 wrote:players that aren't exhibiting fundamentalist or extreme liberal views?

Another panel to chose the panel

Sorry but probably wouldn't work. There would be bias involved in picking the panel...

by **kratos644** on Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:31 pm

Ugly_Moose wrote:Something I would like to see is a penalty for deadbeats.

If you are kicked out of a game for missed turns then the points are doubled what you loose and the other players are rewarded for sitting through this with double points.

This should discourage missed turn drop outs.

I agree with this idea. On another site similar to this one(except much worse) players lose extra points if they deadbeat a game

by **CharruaWarrior** on Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:20 pm

Initial army placement would drag the game. I've been on a site that literally took over 2 months to have all the armies placed.

The attack details is a great idea. When I first came on this site that was something I looked for.

I also looked for a log showing how many armies and territories each player had. This was also on another site I played and was very useful. If a player has 15 territories I would know I would have to conquer 4 territories from him so he gets the minimum amount of armies on his turn. It's easier than counting territories. Also by showing the total armies a player has you can easily see the strongest player to the weekest. 8-[

by **kratos644** on Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:27 pm

CharruaWarrior wrote:Initial army placement would drag the game. I've been on a site that literally took over 2 months to have all the armies placed.

The attack details is a great idea. When I first came on this site that was something I looked for.

I also looked for a log showing how many armies and territories each player had. This was also on another site I played and was very useful. If a player has 15 territories I would know I would have to conquer 4 territories from him so he gets the minimum amount of armies on his turn. It's easier than counting territories. Also by showing the total armies a player has you can easily see the strongest player to the weekest.

BOB...

by **Incandenza** on Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:29 pm

kratos644 wrote:
CharruaWarrior wrote:Initial army placement would drag the game. I've been on a site that literally took over 2 months to have all the armies placed.

The attack details is a great idea. When I first came on this site that was something I looked for.

I also looked for a log showing how many armies and territories each player had. This was also on another site I played and was very useful. If a player has 15 territories I would know I would have to conquer 4 territories from him so he gets the minimum amount of armies on his turn. It's easier than counting territories. Also by showing the total armies a player has you can easily see the strongest player to the weekest.

BOB...

Well, seems like many of BOB's features should've been folded into the site long ago.

by **kratos644** on Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:34 pm

Incandenza wrote:
kratos644 wrote:
CharruaWarrior wrote:Initial army placement would drag the game. I've been on a site that literally took over 2 months to have all the armies placed.

The attack details is a great idea. When I first came on this site that was something I looked for.

I also looked for a log showing how many armies and territories each player had. This was also on another site I played and was very useful. If a player has 15 territories I would know I would have to conquer 4 territories from him so he gets the minimum amount of armies on his turn. It's easier than counting territories. Also by showing the total armies a player has you can easily see the strongest player to the weekest.

BOB...

Well, seems like many of BOB's features should've been folded into the site long ago.

I will say that I agree with you there Incand. They did make a start at it by listing the next redemption value which BOB did, too. Next it would be nice to see the territ and army counter incorporated as well.

I'd like to see the 1v1 team games in first though.

That'd be so sick. And be great for DW and I in our challenge 8-)

by **lord voldemort** on Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:39 pm

Ugly_Moose wrote:Something I would like to see is a penalty for deadbeats.

If you are kicked out of a game for missed turns then the points are doubled what you loose and the other players are rewarded for sitting through this with double points.

This should discourage missed turn drop outs.

open for so much abuse

by **kratos644** on Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:52 pm

lord voldemort wrote:
Ugly_Moose wrote:Something I would like to see is a penalty for deadbeats.

If you are kicked out of a game for missed turns then the points are doubled what you loose and the other players are rewarded for sitting through this with double points.

This should discourage missed turn drop outs.

open for so much abuse

Depends on how it's done. I don't think the winner should get extra points. But the loser should lose extra points...
Say to people equal score 1000 and 1000 for this example.
player A deadbeats so player B wins
Player A loses 40 points for deadbeating but player B still only gets 20.

by **Sargeant_Pepper** on Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:44 pm

CharruaWarrior wrote:Initial army placement would drag the game. I've been on a site that literally took over 2 months to have all the armies placed.

I think initial army placement could be something added later on down the road, when many of the other interesting features have been added. This would, in my opinion, take too long to start. Imagine an 8 player game. It would take years! Obviously this would be optional, but there are better upgrades which I beleive would benefit all players, would be for the log to show players territories ATTACKED but not conquered. This is what I assumed Attack details in game log was. Sounds a lot like the Log 2.0 promised in 2006? :-$

by **MeDeFe** on Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:13 am

kratos644 wrote:
lord voldemort wrote:
Ugly_Moose wrote:Something I would like to see is a penalty for deadbeats.

If you are kicked out of a game for missed turns then the points are doubled what you loose and the other players are rewarded for sitting through this with double points.

This should discourage missed turn drop outs.

open for so much abuse

Depends on how it's done. I don't think the winner should get extra points. But the loser should lose extra points...
Say to people equal score 1000 and 1000 for this example.
player A deadbeats so player B wins
Player A loses 40 points for deadbeating but player B still only gets 20.

Point deflation. The next big threat to the scoreboard?