SpielByWeb

willythesnitch · Joined: 06 May 05 Posts: 13

Personally I think the goal is to keep the feel of the game as if it were being played face to face. When playing F2F, do you pick up a worker and put him on the destination, or do you move him tile by tile so that your opponent can see your moves? Whenever I've played, we always go tile by tile.

The way the implementation is now, there is no way to provide a bonus to the unobservant player. By indicating the best route, you are giving an advantage to those who don't always pay attention. I'd rather find the best path myself and know that I made the best moves on my own, than have the route pointed out for me. Better to slow the game a little for everyone than allow lesser players an advantage.

Chad

HappyProle · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject:

I was just looking at the worker movement issue as well as some of the other interface requests (e.g. one-click digging) and it now occurs to me that this might be a good candidate for a game variant.

The variant could be called "fast play" or something similar. It could include:
Treasure digs by clicking on treasure tile
Temple digs by clicking on temple tile
End-to-end worker movement
Worker-to-camp by clicking on camp icons (bringing leader to camp would still require clicking in supply?)

Having this as a variant would allow us to test this style of play without disrupting existing games.

Guest · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:53 pm Post subject:

A variant would be good.

I never want to play against unobservant players. What's the point? It would be boring and there'd be no challenge.

When we play face to face, we pick up the worker, put it on the destination hex, and announce how much it cost to get there. I've never seen anyone physically move the pawn from stone to stone or hex to hex. To each their own, I guess.

To me, this is like arguing whether we should let the computer count our scores or whether we should be required to manually count our points. Why not let the computer do what it does best - counting!

freduk · Joined: 18 Jan 06 Posts: 433 Location: Bristol, UK

HappyProle · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:48 am Post subject:

Ok, the new version has been uploaded and it will be put into place shortly. See the first message of this thread for details.

JeffyJeff · Joined: 27 Oct 05 Posts: 85 Location: Longwood, FL