Manual Territory Selection: Choose or Draft Territories

[chapcrap]

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...

I am very much in favor of something like this... However it's probably a whole new suggestion and may take a bit of work. I'm also sure there are some who will say that since they pay, they should get access to everything automatically...

[sdkenned]

Well, even paying players don't get access to certain ranks until they have played enough games... this (paying players objecting to not having instant access to the feature) is not a strong arguement against the idea.

[agentcom]

I summarized in the OP the points against it, but I'm actually for this. I think it should be premium only and one of the things that new recruits can't join. (Or if we put in some sort of escalating "unlocking" of features, this should be somewhere on the scale.) I see no problem even with hive if that's what a user truly wants to play.

[sdkenned]

Great! What is the process of integrating this feature into the system architecture?

[DoomYoshi]

While I think this is feasible, I don't think it is a good game setting. I played with Draft exclusively for many years, it's not nearly as rich of a game as random draw.

[sdkenned]

Ah, so you are arguing that this new feature would not expand the wealth that is CC? This is the best arguement against the feature, in my opinion.

While your experience suggests you are probably right, said experience also makes you the best person to expound on the virtues of territory draft. What WAS present in Territory Draft games that is not present in random draw games?

There seems to me, as a person of imagination, that in manual draft games a certain mythologization of the game can form that is otherwise lacking or at least less significant in random draw... the selection of favorite territories, and concssions thereof for purposes of forced blocking, etcetera, are interesting aspects of the game that are completely unexploited with only random draw availible.

I can see how manual draft may soon lose appeal, when everyone is gunning for the same territories with the same strategy, but with CC's wealth of maps, the feature may remain interesting indefinitley.

[nicestash]

What about the exponential increased potential for farming?

[sdkenned]

Can you expound on this [farming issue] a bit?

[nicestash]

Well, on the super complicated maps, most players don't even know what the bonuses are. A top player could make a lot of these draft games, and by using his knowledge of the map, start with a massive bonus right off the bat. The other player wouldn't even have a chance.

[qwertylpc]

then dont let noobs play it, they are the ones joining the games, there fault

[greenoaks]

then dont let noobs play it, they are the ones joining the games, there fault

if that reasoning didn't stop Admin from perma-banning a Conquerer then it won't work here either.

[sdkenned]

The positives seem to outweigh the negatives.

[Eddygp]

Concise description:

• Granting the possibility, as a new possible Gameplay option, to choose the territories you start with

Specifics/Details:

• Manual initial troops let you decide where to deploy the troops you start with, but another option to choose the territories you start with should be available too.
• Before starting the game with this gameplay option, the player would be asked to choose a certain number of territories, and once he/she finishes, to deploy manually his/her troops or automatically, depending on the game setting.

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

• Most quadruples, triples or doubles games would benefit from this due to strategical situation, and it would also help standard games in case one player has a particular strategy that he likes.
• It would give more flexibility to players when starting a game and thus giving a chance to those who prefer strategical positioning to other factors currently available.

[DoomYoshi]

MERGED

[Armandolas]

Concise description:

• Before i discovered CC i used to play Risk online.When the game started we had to "truly" manually deploy our troops across the board. And when i mean manually it is really choose the territories where we wanted to be.Then after that is finished, we would place the number of troops wanted, in the previous selected regions.

Specifics/Details:

• I was quite surprised that CC wouldnt have this option

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

• It adds a lot more strategy to the game because you really need to choose where to deploy, instead of it being randomly distributed . That situation allows unbalanced and unfair gameplay. With this the factor of luck is reduced