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[PaperPlunger]

I don't know if this has been suggested here before, but I have started playing a little bit of WaW while I wait for CC games. They have a Massive attack button where if you click, it will automatically attack until you take the country... or fall below it (I think until you have less armies anyway...)

That would be awesome to have, because it would make attacking faster, but you would have the choice to attack regularly, or with the massive. I think it's great to have in WaW, and would be even better to have here.

[kingwaffles]

I believe it has been suggested before, but I don't think it would be terribly useful, for me anyways. I can see that going badly quit a bit of the time. If the dice are going against you, then your best bet is usually to stop and you wouldn't have that option if you used that kinda of button.
I'm not saying it shouldn't be done if theres support for it, I'm just saying that I don't think it would be useful....

[lackattack]

It's on my to-do list

[dcowboys055]

I dont know if this topic has been brought up before but wouldnt it be useful to have a "do or die" button so when you have those 54 v. 49 battles you could just instantly simulate it down to either the defender dying and you losing as many as it would take or the attacker ending up with only 1 army left and the defender with however many they have left? i've seen it on some other risk websites and i use it a lot with the big battles. It's not exactly needed but it would be very useful especially in those stupid escalating cards matches. Priority...eh 1? 2?


THanks, Dcowboys055

[vtmarik]

I kinda like the idea, though it takes the visceral fun out of pressing that button over and over again imagining the bloodied corpses piling up like some kind of puff pastry of death...

But perhaps I'm just a psycho...

[Napoleon]

yea i really like that idea because it gets frustrating pressing attack over and over again

[PaperPlunger]

i suggested this before as something called "massive attack" which i got from WaW. People didn't like it though

[nhulbert]

I used to play some risk game that I downloaded a while back where I could play against the computer, and there was something like that. I wouldn't want it to bring it down to less than 4 armies for the attacker, though. You could go manually from there. But also, I don't even think I'd use it... Sometimes I like to stop if I start losing too many armies, or whatever... Others would probably like it, though.

[lackattack]

Also suggested here http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1537. It's on my to do list. one issue is how do I display all the dice rolls? A long vertical list?

[dissolution]

can u make it a pop up that shows the dice roll, in the case of a massive attack. Some people wont wanna see the dice roll,. see they wouldnt have to, but those whod wanna see it, will be able to click the popup or wtv..

[AndyDufresne]

First off, I don't think it should be the norm for all large army battles. As was stated, sometimes it's nice to stop attacks, move to a different area, and start again. Also sometimes with large armies I like to weaken a certain area, but not take it over specifically in that turn. Might be neat for an option, but I don't think I would use it, at least until I knew the game was won in the last turn.

...how do I display all the dice rolls? A long vertical list?

I'm afraid a long vertical list would simply be too much for the game window, and it would be hard to follow the flow of the of the battle with a giant interjection of dice rolls. Also think how people usually post the game window information, that would make them huge, and unnecessarily long. I think a simply horizontal list might be the best option, unless there is another idea floating out there on how to do it. (I.E. Dice roll: Attacker: 4 2 6 / Defender: 3 4, Attacker: 2 3 1 / Defender: 1 5, etc). I think that may even be hard to read, but it seems like a better option than the vertical list.

Edit: Popups are annoying, and many people have them disabled. I know I do. I wouldn't want to just enable them for this.


--Andy

[vtmarik]

Also suggested here http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1537. It's on my to do list. one issue is how do I display all the dice rolls? A long vertical list?

Maybe just displaying the results of the dice rolls. An "echo off" command to use an old DOS term.

[dcowboys055]

i know it wouldnt be used that much but it could be useful for times where you either dont like to click a lot or if you have a short amount of time to take your turns (inbetween classes, before work, etc.) and if you have to click over and over and over you might not get to take your turns in other games your in

[Jota]

If something like this were implemented, it'd be nice if it included a drop-down to let you choose how many armies to stop at.

[lackattack]

I think it should just stop when you are left with three, because that is when the odds change.

[AndyDufresne]

Hehe, I know I wouldn't use it until the very end then...


--Andy

[Jota]

Yeah, what Andy said. There are many times when I'll want to attack, but I don't want to risk having too few armies left to defend with. How many armies is "too few" depends a lot on the circumstances at the moment.

[joeyjordison]

an attack until dead button would be very useful as in the very last stages of a game when you are certain you are going to win it is very annoying having to click attack over and over to finish. the attack until dead button would basically attack from your designated country to that of your oponent until either all your armies are gone or until you conquer that territory.

it would also be handy in cercumstances such as this: Game 26809

[lackattack]

Already in the suggestion box as "do or die" button

http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2210

[Phobia]

ive never like "do or die", particualy in dominate game, every time i use it it seems to make me lose all my men

[Machiavelli]

I think it would just be added clutter

[Pedronicus]

I want to see it added - just so I can laugh my socks off, as all the moans come rolling in......

"I was playing my first game ever, and clicked the Do or Die button on my first go... then i was left with lots of ones all over board"

[sully800]

I definitely think its a good feature....I wouldn't use it often, but there are definitely situations when thats the appropriate mentality. If you are trying to take a player out and you need their cards to survive....then you just have to go for it..even if you get behind, continuing to attack might be your best strategy. Or during the end of the game when you are about to take out the last player. You might have plenty of men and you're going to eliminate their last big country....Do or die would just save time and clicking.

Also, it would be fun to see people use it too often and have it weaken them for me to take out

[lackattack]

I would definitely use it because I'm on dialup internet and it takes forever to fight a large battle.

Kinda like calling long-distance on my parents' rotary phone and making a mistake on the last digit and starting from scratch

[PaperPlunger]

also suggested here a loooonnng time ago http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewto ... ive+attack