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10 second "take back" option for troop movement
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Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:55 amby sl0p0k
Okay, this game could seriously use something that equates to a "the move doesn't count until I take the hand off the pieces" type option! Something like ten seconds to pull back armies you JUST advanced or fortified to a territory. I'm not talking about taking back an attack, just the movement of armies.
I had my strategy all planned out earlier. Move X armies here. "Click" CRAP!!! Wrong space damnit!!! Will probably cost me the match. One of those things that would neeeeever happen on a board game, which this is trying to approximate.
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Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:02 amby Herakilla
that "it doesnt count till my hands off the pieces" is from chess, not risk!
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Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:05 amby sl0p0k
Not how I played the game when I was a kid. Plus, unless you have severe motor control issues, you don't put troops in the wrong territory when you have a set idea in mind!
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Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:15 amby Herakilla
exactly, so my friends and i never called anything like that because we never deployed wrong
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Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:22 amby sl0p0k
I was talking about while playing on an actual board game, not online. Scrolling down drop down menus and physically moving armies with your fingers are two different things. Thus, a "take back" for wrong clicks would be a nice thing to have.
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Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:11 amby firth4eva
wouldnt work in freestyle
many times i have deployed and then my opponent 3 sseconds later and i could just take them back and win
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Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:42 amby Wisse
Herakilla wrote:that "it doesnt count till my hands off the pieces" is from chess, not risk!
it is even worse, when you touch a piece you have to move it (if it is possible)
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Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:29 amby sl0p0k
Ahhh... okay. I didn't realize freestyle was like that. I've only played a few, and everyone played hours apart from each other.
Fine for sequential, no so much for freestyle.
I guess lesson learned for me, pay better attention to what's on the screen than what's in my head!
Move on, carry on....
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Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:58 amby Ishiro
sl0p0k wrote:Not how I played the game when I was a kid. Plus, unless you have severe motor control issues, you don't put troops in the wrong territory when you have a set idea in mind!
I bolded the important part. If, as you imply, you are no longer a kid, you shouldn't need rules like this. Slow down, double check yourself and put armies where you intend them to go.