With all of this talk about how a player can manipulate a freestyle game to his/her advantage, I thought of a new freestyle option.
What if, after the last person joined a game, there was 24 hours before the game started (it could be less than that). Everyone would get an email that stated "At 8:23 p.m EST your freestyle game will start". Players would have 24 hours to look over the map and decide for themselves on a game plan. Once the 24 hours was up, everyone could play at any time. But here is the different thing. Once the last player has gone (lets say it took 7 hours for everyone to play) the next round would not start for the remainder of the 24 hours left (in this case 17 hours).
Players could move early or late and no one could complain about how a player could get back to back turns because everyone could do it.
You would also need an option for making the playing rounds shorter than 24 hours. ( I believe that might be in the works already)
What do you think.