Improved Multiplayer

[Maltrease]

I really like that idea Gandalf. Actually what would most likely happen is you do your most critical turn elements and submit it. Then go back and do more things and hope to have time to resubmit your turn.

Another idea would be to make the last player pay some kind of fine. Like 20-50 gold to each player depending on how many people are playing.

[Gandalf Parker]

Well the musical chairs thing can be done now on a linux server. The fine couldnt.

[danm]

I like your the mind-reading game server idea better Maltrease.

In fact, once implemented, you could extend the idea so that after submitting my turn, the hosting logic could change it so that it does what I SHOULD have done that turn instead of whatever idiotic thing I actually did.

I think there's some real potential there )

[Agrajag]

Wow, that's a really cool idea Gandalf. Though I know there's no way I could survive in such a game

[paradoxharbinger]

i don't understand the changing of a person to ai if they take too long, wouldn't this eventually devolve into an sp game for everyone? so say someone doesn't get done before you, are they booted out of the game, or forced to take the actions the ai decides for them? and in the case they are forced out of the game, what happens on thier end? 'woops, you took to long, you've been booted.'

on the other hand i do like the musical chairs idea, though maybe set the threshold at a fifth of the players in the game, so for a 15 player game, the last 3 get cut off. i think it would keep any one person from getting thoroughly trounced if they are especially slow, even out the battlefield a bit, so to speak.

[PashaDawg]

Why don't you play a blitz in the IRC channel? That's fast! You can play the game all afternoon... no waiting...