Barrissmo76 wrote:I'm a member. Some of my other buddies do real time games every once and a while and I always wanted the open spot available when they were ready to go so I sign up for unlimited my first day in. That and it drove me crazy when nothing happened in the first 4 games I started. I made it about an hour before I paid the $20.
As far as the record for win streak goes, all three of us think Templeton shouldn't have it. There are little glitches in the freestyle game that allow you to win even if you have horrible luck. When you combine the fact that they can always make moves together with our almost unlimited access to internet (we work for ourselves so we can stop when ever we want. for a month their lives revolved around the times rounds ended), it isn't a level playing field even against the experienced people who know what they are doing. If an opponent had a family or an important job they wouldn't be able to compete against all of the strategies you can use in freestyle. While they enjoyed winning none of us want any credit for records using that strategy.
Basically, if you get in trouble during a freestyle game you can use the end of round time to your advantage. They always joined games and never started ones of their own so they so they always had control by going first. When opponent C and D make their move the clock resets to 24 hours to start the next round and now Templeton and Bosco have control. If C and D have a continent that you can't bust up in one turn you wait until there is 5 minutes left in the round and then both of you make your turn. During their turn Bosco and Templeton would try to get a continent of their own. It normally only had one guy on all the borders but they would end their turn with one minute left in the round and when that minute was up, they would get to go again.(that is the glitch - the opponent only has 1 minute or he misses his turn) Now they get tons of guys because they each have a continent and they now have enough guys to bust up the opponent. When the opponent goes, he does get double guys for missing a round but it is double guys after his continent is busted up. There is a risk to this strategy because the opponent could be watching the clock and they could log on when you do and then you lose control and they get their continent bonus. However, if you are a family man or work a job with no internet access you can't always be there at that time to stop them, so the win has little to do with skill at Risk opposed to skill at finding glitches in games. I showed them the glitch so I would be as embarressed as them if they got credit for winning that way. We would much rather start from scratch and build up points in sequential games which have an even playing field even if one side is in the same room. We'll see what happens. Either way you deserve the record.
well, you arent the only one who uses it...its legal...most know that almost any decent player can play those games and get a good record...and lots of points...many just simply choose not to
i dont happen to like playing it that way, so I dont, but that doesnt lessen it as a valid tactic... as long as you guys are more than one guy, which I for one have no doubt, you get the record...JR will break it again anyways soon enough...
and as far as resetting the points, it really isnt necessary...there are many at the top of the scoreboard that have played those games...maybe not to that degree of synergy, but...there really isnt anything technically wrong with it...
