Conquer Club

Suggestion: Allow for an individual to have the ability to extend their time by one, two, or three minutes in a speed game.


Specifics:

• Allow user to extend their turn for a maximum of 3 minutes across a speed game. The user may extend their time for 3 minutes all in 1 turn, or a MINIMUM 1 minute for a Maximum 3 turns, or 1 minute for 1 turn and 2 minutes for a later turn, etc, whatever is appropriate.
• It is not easily abused because a user cannot extend his turns by several minutes every single turn. The user has extended time that he/she may use when required. Other players probably won't be annoyed, especially if this privelege is used logically (as explained below).

This will improve the following aspects of the site:

• During the critical points in speed games, it allows the users who have a winning position to execute what may be a tedious turn that requires several minutes to execute. This is most common (from my experience) in the escalating world 2.1 games where it is such a huge map that it is difficult to take over the entire map in 4-5 minutes; this is a situation that occurs alot for that map in particular.
• Allows for 'forgiveness' for those who need to leave the game for a few minutes.
• E.G. User may get disconnected for 4 minutes on a critical turn and be able to extend turn for 3 minutes so he can execute a plan rather than rush a turn.

I hope this is approved. It can't do harm and does a great deal of benefit. Those who get disconnected alot would be more comfortable playing speed games.

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EXAMPLE:

Combined with being new to speed games, my slow connection has cost me 1 game where I had the win but didn't quite eliminate the opponent to get his cards (thus next player in line did and stole). In a second game today it again happened on world 2.1. I got the critical player down to 7 territories, AND, couldn't end in time to get a card. If I had an extension of 1 or more comfortably 2 minutes, I probably could have won right there. Instead I had to play a (very fun) endgame where I had to get kind of lucky to win! It was frustrating. I was forced to plan my whole turn during his move, and go as fast as physically possible for me (look at the log in the first game!) and I STILL just barely finished in time.


Here's the 2 games in reference. http://www.conquerclub.com/game.php?game=5844233 (eventually won but had to go really fast)

http://www.conquerclub.com/game.php?game=5756281 (cost me the game, gave on deck player a steal)

An interesting idea, but if you have lost your connection, how do you tell the site to extend your turn?

ender516 wrote:An interesting idea, but if you have lost your connection, how do you tell the site to extend your turn?

Well you can't, but usually it takes less than 2 minutes to reconnect so most of the time you'll be able to get enough connection to return and hit the time.

nah bad idea. It would be unfair in escalating games going for the kill and what not. There is already plenty of time to take turns in 5 min speed games.
A better idea that has already been suggested is varying time limits 2 mins, 5 mins and a longer say 10-15 mins

lord voldemort wrote:nah bad idea. It would be unfair in escalating games going for the kill and what not. There is already plenty of time to take turns in 5 min speed games.
A better idea that has already been suggested is varying time limits 2 mins, 5 mins and a longer say 10-15 mins

But I don't think a game should be lost just because you were too slow to finish your turn. How bad is it to win a game from TIME? Unheard of.

Pokerastin8r wrote:

lord voldemort wrote:nah bad idea. It would be unfair in escalating games going for the kill and what not. There is already plenty of time to take turns in 5 min speed games.
A better idea that has already been suggested is varying time limits 2 mins, 5 mins and a longer say 10-15 mins

But I don't think a game should be lost just because you were too slow to finish your turn. How bad is it to win a game from TIME? Unheard of.

If you are having trouble conquering 114 territs in less than 3 mins, you should invest in clickable maps.

I think this is a bad idea, if you are having time issues go faster. One strategy is to spread oneself out with a lot of territories especially in fog, to make it hard for an opponent to eliminate you. I think this idea would detract from game play and be unnecessary fluffing around.

Pokerastin8r wrote:

ender516 wrote:An interesting idea, but if you have lost your connection, how do you tell the site to extend your turn?

Well you can't, but usually it takes less than 2 minutes to reconnect so most of the time you'll be able to get enough connection to return and hit the time.

Yes, "usually", but I almost lost an Extreme Global Warning game a few days ago because I lost my connection during reinforcements and couldn't get back on for half an hour! I just managed to end my turn and get spoils, but those 17 troops in Madagascar should have been surrounding North America. Luckily, my luck returned and I cashed a set in time to take the map. All of this, I suppose, may not directly relate to the topic at hand, but my point is you cannot rely on an extension if you have lost your link. A two minute interruption in a five minute turn will be fatal 40% of the time.