Manual Territory Selection: Choose or Draft Territories

[Dibbun]

Concise description:

• There would be a game option to have manual territory selection.

Specifics/Details:

• When the manual territories option is selected, players will go 1 by 1 selecting the territories they desire. Then, depending on whether deployment is automatic or manual, after all territories which will be selected have been, the deployment phase will begin.

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• Adds additional customization and layers of strategies to games.

[demonfork]

Concise description:

• There would be a game option to have manual territory selection.

Specifics/Details:

• When the manual territories option is selected, players will go 1 by 1 selecting the territories they desire. Then, depending on whether deployment is automatic or manual, after all territories which will be selected have been, the deployment phase will begin.

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• Adds additional customization and layers of strategies to games.

Already been suggested like infinity times.

[TheForgivenOne]

Concise description:

• There would be a game option to have manual territory selection.

Specifics/Details:

• When the manual territories option is selected, players will go 1 by 1 selecting the territories they desire. Then, depending on whether deployment is automatic or manual, after all territories which will be selected have been, the deployment phase will begin.

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• Adds additional customization and layers of strategies to games.

Already been suggested like infinity times.

This is true. This would make games last a VERY long time. Especially for Speed games.

[Dibbun]

True that.

I'd still like to see it

lol @ Hive game with manual selection.. 12 hour speed game ftw

[nebsmith]

For this to work in any resonable ammount of time all players would have to be online and in the game together for the deployment. While I have played this way in RL, it only works because you are all sitting around the same board together.

[sdkenned]

Concise description:
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At the start of the game, rather than receiving random starting territories, players take turns drafting territories.

Specifics/Details:
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The boardgame RISK allowed gamers to choose whether starting territories would be randomly distributed or drafted deliberatly by players, in turn.

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
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An initial territory draft would add a huge strategic component to Conquer Club otherwise lacking.

[Gilligan]

Concise description:
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At the start of the game, rather than receiving random starting territories, players take turns drafting territories.

Specifics/Details:
[list]
The boardgame RISK allowed gamers to choose whether starting territories would be randomly distributed or drafted deliberatly by players, in turn.

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
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An initial territory draft would add a huge strategic component to Conquer Club otherwise lacking.

I love the idea but it's not totally practical. How long would it take to do this on hive with 8 players? As long as the game!!

[nicestash]

Maybe make it an option for speed games only? It'd take a long time to draft out an entire map if the 2 players are online at different times.

[sdkenned]

I think the duration of the draft is not the point... quite the contrary. The point is that the draft, no matter how long, is as significant or almost as significant as the gameplay itself. It adds a whole new dimension to strategic thinking, approach and planning. Such a feature will expand the dynamism of CC exponentially.

[elonpuckhog]

This has been suggested before. I like the idea, but you have to get it to where it won't take so long to start the game.

[sdkenned]

May I ask: why?

[blakebowling]

I could see having this feature either for speed games only, or as a premium perk (not necessarily because of the exclusivity of it, but to keep free members from getting stuck in these type of games).

That being said, I feel CC could do with more perks for premium members.

[chapcrap]

I could see having this feature either for speed games only, or as a premium perk (not necessarily because of the exclusivity of it, but to keep free members from getting stuck in these type of games).

That being said, I feel CC could do with more perks for premium members.

This. I'll try to find the other suggestion to merge with this.

[agentcom]

Similar suggestions have been MERGED.

The OP has been edited and the title changed for clarity and for ease of finding this topic through search.

Chap if you have more to add to this topic or any related topics feel free to merge here and/or edit the OP as necessary and add to or merge with the posts linked there.

[sdkenned]

Though perhaps not the solution, it may be possible to develop a permission system based on medal acheivement... by which players unlock the ability to start and play in territory draft games... as though it would not be a feature that would be availible to newbs.

Limiting (shortening) the time allowed to select a teritory also makes sense, with the consequnece of missing a turn being a randomly selected tert.