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freestyle teams and simultaneous moves

PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:19 am
by Dirk Dastardly
Ok, an opponent who will remain nameless got all over me because my teammate started his turn while mine was going. My opponent was inscensed and he threatened to add me to his ignore list. I didn't see the problem.

On the other hand, I once played a freestyle game where my opponents were RL friends, and took every single turn together, making them far more effective than me and my opponent (whom I had never met, and had no outside means of communicating/scheduling).

I just wanted to know what other people thought about this.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:24 am
by dominationnation
Its perfectly fair. If people want to spend all the time to plan that then Its perfectly fair.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:29 am
by Dirk Dastardly
I guess I should've checked my opponent's negative feedback - more than half of it is from people he's accused of cheating for doing the same thing. Looks like I'll be getting my first negative feedback :? :roll: :(

PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:59 am
by CrabNebula
Its perfectly fine. That is what teamwork is for, work together. Sometimes that decides between winning and losing.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:45 pm
by Trainsrokg
i do it with my dad all the time, or aleast try to, its hard when im at my moms house

PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:53 pm
by frood
Let's see... now who could this mysterious player be :-k :-k
Could it be extratabasco by any chance :-k

PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 8:09 pm
by Trainsrokg
no its williamhansonlaw

PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:45 pm
by Dirk Dastardly
nice to see the mix of responses, and some people agree with me

I just worry when it happens every turn because it makes me wonder if it's one person, or two people sitting right next to each other, which might as well be one person - but I guess this is a separate issue and handled independently

oh yeah, on the guesses - :lol:

PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:45 pm
by newline
is this unnamed opponent called "Codeblue1018", perhaps?
he did the same thing to me!

PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 12:22 am
by SkyT
well, i play freestyle with my roommate and my girlfriend all together, and yes, we take turns together EVERY SINGLE TURN, i dont see a problem with it at all.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 1:06 am
by turtle32
ya, if you look all extratabasco plays is freestyle tripples, which is halarius because he doesn't want anyone to take their turns at the same time!

i havn't looked but i bet if you search flame wars he is in there about a million times.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:18 am
by jiminski
turtle32 wrote:ya, if you look all extratabasco plays is freestyle tripples, which is halarius because he doesn't want anyone to take their turns at the same time!

i havn't looked but i bet if you search flame wars he is in there about a million times.


hehe yes Sky but very rarely for this reason .. mainly for his politics.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:35 am
by stringybeany
If you don't like simultaneous turns, there is a simple solution: "sequential"

Good grief.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 2:04 pm
by DaGip
If I ever play simultaneous FreeStyle...I would have it no other way. That is just the nature of the beast, and it does take some team planning to be able to do it successfully. Playing simultaneously can be real fun as a team if they can all get together at the same time. But I have opted, for the most part, to refrain from FreeStyle games. I believe that Sequential game play to be more enjoyable as it is more like playing a real board game of Risk. And if you don't approve with FreeStyle games...then don't play them! (this goes especially to xtratabasco...hehe!) :lol:

PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:13 pm
by kiamors
Its perfectly legal and a good tactic. It does suck when people play in the same room and they make all their moves one fatal swoop, but as long as its team play and they have no unannounced partnerships then its just the nature of the game. just because you can't play with your team mate real time doesn't mean you shouldn't force it on others. Its not like its against the rules or anything, and as stringybeany said, if you don't like it, don't play freestyle.

PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:58 am
by killerkid037
Its perfectly legal, although a bit cheap in my opinion, it puts players who don't know their partners at quite a great disadvantage but.. what can you do?

There's not much point in posting names of those who do it, there's an awful lot. No joke, knowing the truth one of those is yosevuk...