missed turn becoming not missed turn... [Pending]

[Mr_Adams]

suggestion: Ability to start a turn after your "time is up" given that the next person has not yet started their turn.

reason for change: pretty obvious

So basically, I show up an hour after my time is up, but the next player hasn't started his/her turn yet. I should be able to salvage my turn by playing it now. This would make bus Saturdays less painful to these long term games....

[insomniacdude]

Actually, this is really brilliant. One of the best ideas I've ever read. Obviously this would only work for sequential games? If it's included in Freestyle, it need some finesse.

[caricaturd]

I second that. I hardly ever miss turns, but when I do, its usually by a few short hours, if that. I also play sequential games pretty exclusively, so I'm all for this

[Timminz]

This sounds like a surprisingly good idea, to me. I can't see any abuse coming from it, and it would help the many players who really try not to miss turns. I know I've missed a bunch of turns by minutes, when traveling.

[Stoney229]

I've wished for this for quite a while... can't remember if there was (but I don't think there was) any reason I never posted the suggestion myself.

[Iliad]

That's a great idea. You could play until the next person starts his turn.

It really sucks if you miss a turn and you have to watch hopelessly wehn the other person hasn't started their turn yet.

But you gotta think about the next person and so he dooesn't get less time somehow. Just gotta be careful here there's no double turn loophole. I don't think there is but keep an eye out to abuse

[Jamie]

Brilliant

[lackattack]

Very interesting. I'll put it as "Pending".

[yeti_c]

I think this should probably be "sequential" only?!

Working out the exact order of What the hell - could be tricky for Freestyle... as who played last determines who can play next...?!

C.

[wicked]

What if the legit person's whose turn it is comes on when the previous player is playing and has to wait? What will his "time to next turn be"?? Will he get the full 24 hours, and how will that be noted on the game clock? If it's really my turn in a game, and I come on and see the guy before taking a turn, I assume I have 24 hours and put off that turn. When in reality, I may have quite less than that. If I only play once a day, then I get screwed.

I think there's a huge potential for confusion and a slight possibility for abuse.

It would have to be for sequential only, as it's always your turn in freestyle within the round if you haven't gone yet (and weren't the the one to end the round).

[insomniacdude]

What if the legit person's whose turn it is comes on when the previous player is playing and has to wait? What will his "time to next turn be"?? Will he get the full 24 hours, and how will that be noted on the game clock? If it's really my turn in a game, and I come on and see the guy before taking a turn, I assume I have 24 hours and put off that turn. When in reality, I may have quite less than that. If I only play once a day, then I get screwed.

I think there's a huge potential for confusion and a slight possibility for abuse.

I'm generally in the boat that argues "Pay more attention". Just check the game log. It won't be hard.

[yeti_c]

Once the player takes there turn then the next players turn starts again (i.e. they get 24 hours)

C.

[insomniacdude]

Once the player takes there turn then the next players turn starts again (i.e. they get 24 hours)

C.

Hm. Another decent option. I don't know if I like the idea of a max 14 day wait in 8p games, but the safety net might be nice to offset that.

That would also be nice for team games. If a player wants the advise of his teammates no how toe react to a new move, they might not achieve that with only four hours left.

[yeti_c]

Once the player takes there turn then the next players turn starts again (i.e. they get 24 hours)

C.

Hm. Another decent option. I don't know if I like the idea of a max 14 day wait in 8p games, but the safety net might be nice to offset that.

That would also be nice for team games. If a player wants the advise of his teammates no how toe react to a new move, they might not achieve that with only four hours left.

Here's another problem though...

Say player 1 skips... OK whilst player 2 can take his turn player 1 still can...

Then player 2 skips... can Player 1 still pick up his turn whilst player 3 *can* play?

(Thus resetting it to player 2's turn...)

If so - then this could be an elegant solution to a vacation flag... i.e. you just leave it rolling until the player that has gone away and plays their turn... it then rolls all the way back to his initial skipped turn and the game carries on...

In this instance though you would want to *not* have a 3 turn deadbeat... (i.e. if everyone is missing their turns then don't deadbeat people out)

C.

[yeti_c]

(PS then of course you'll get a load of Neg feedbacks saying - "we'd agreed vacation but they took their turn and I missed mine")

C.