3 player games, are they even worth playing?

by **mibi** on Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:43 am

Generally I try to avoid situations where the game gets down to the three players because what usually will happen is that the two weaker players will gang up on the stronger one. This goes around and around until someone makes a mistake or gets bad dice.

So I don't really see the point in playing 3 person games, where this situation is present from the get go.

Is there anyone out there who actually plays 3 players games?

by **kingpin01** on Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:56 am

This is why I avoid flat rate and no spoils games as much as possible. I stick with escalating mostly, or flat rate team games.

by **slowreactor** on Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:58 am

3 player is the easiest setting for secret diplomacy/multi abus.

by **hwhrhett** on Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:28 am

3 player games work fine if its esc, or assassin. but i rarely play no cards or flat rate games.....

by **AndyDufresne** on Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:45 am

hwhrhett wrote:3 player games work fine if its esc, or assassin. but i rarely play no cards or flat rate games.....

Right, if I play 3 Player Games...I'll usually stick to these settings. More often than not I like 4-5-6 players the best, or a good old 1vs1.

--Andy

by **Kotaro** on Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:47 am

I usually play Private 3 ways, invite ever-so-unpopular mods, and a close friends.

Don't ever actually talk about it, but they're hatred shows ingame

(and I usually lose too ;_;)

by **the.killing.44** on Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:54 am

AndyDufresne wrote:
hwhrhett wrote:3 player games work fine if its esc, or assassin. but i rarely play no cards or flat rate games.....

Right, if I play 3 Player Games...I'll usually stick to these settings. More often than not I like 4-5-6 players the best, or a good old 1vs1.

--Andy

:P

by **AndyDufresne** on Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:00 pm

Usually. Sometimes it is nice to experiment.

Sometimes it is also nice just to have a shorter game, which 3 players can provide. But for the most part I tend to like a little bigger or smaller games.

--Andy

by **Master Fenrir** on Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:20 pm

mibi wrote:the two weaker players will gang up on the stronger one.

I won't play 3-player for this exact reason. I'd consider it on a map like Feudal War with fog, but that'd be about it.

by **squishyg** on Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:41 pm

3 players on lux or doodle can be fun. I tend to like 5 player games best.

by **darkangelsguy205** on Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:59 pm

i do because it is beter then 2 player games because you get more points off of them

by **Blitzaholic** on Tue Sep 08, 2009 4:11 pm

mibi wrote:Generally I try to avoid situations where the game gets down to the three players because what usually will happen is that the two weaker players will gang up on the stronger one. This goes around and around until someone makes a mistake or gets bad dice.

So I don't really see the point in playing 3 person games, where this situation is present from the get go.

Is there anyone out there who actually plays 3 players games?

I played a lot 3 player assassin

by **grandin** on Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:31 am

Not that i'm a very experienced player, but i must say that I enjoy 3 player flat rate speed games. A 4-5 player speed is perhaps even more fun, but it takes quite a while longer to finish. If i've got an hour or two to spare, but not much more, 3p seems to be the way to go.

by **targetman377** on Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:39 am

i like 3 person seq. flat rate games on texas map i find that one of the funnest setting. sorry for not agree with you all.

by **azezzo** on Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:51 am

i like 3 player "classic" map escalating speed games.

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by **slowreactor** on Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:52 pm

2v2v2 is just as bad as 3 player...

by **laughingcavalier** on Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:11 pm

Good for speed, OK for escalating and it can work in fog. But few things are more satisfying than clearing the board after a no-spoils game has got stuck at 3 or 4 players for months: all those weeks of frustration released in one glorious moment.

by **Kotaro** on Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:02 pm

I find that 3 player Terminators are fun. Who will play conservatively and wait to get the last kill? Who will be super suicidal and try and take out the highest ranked?

by **tdans** on Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:32 pm

Kotaro wrote:I usually play Private 3 ways, invite ever-so-unpopular mods, and a close friends.

Don't ever actually talk about it, but they're hatred shows ingame

(and I usually lose too ;_;)

youve never invited me :'(

by **King_Herpes** on Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:05 am

Threesomes are well worth a serious attempt. Stupid question.

by **lord voldemort** on Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:16 am

King_Herpes wrote:Threesomes are well worth a serious attempt. Stupid question.

qft...

by **MrBenn** on Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:42 pm

I have played the grand sum of 23 three-player games during my time here at CC. The only one that sticks out as a particularly good game was a foggy game on World 2.1 (Game 2383919).

Part of me wonders if 3-player games work better in the fog, purely because it's less obvious who the game leader is?