freestyle speed

[Artimis]

Depends, I think it's fine to wait for minutes, but in a 24-hour game you're suddenly left hanging without notice. It isn't really really cheap since it's in the nature of the game (so I won't vote) and it's fair to take your advantages esepcially when you most need them, but testing a player's patience goes beyond hoping to surprise them with your timing, and I would describe anything more than 5 minutes unannounced deliberate delay, if you've been playing rt, as an acceptable tactic but rude.

It just so happens we have just such an individual here Game 3604626. everyone has taken their turn, yet he continues to wait. He did this in another game right here Game 3619488, waited until about 5 minutes to the end of the round and took his go. If it gave him some kind of advantage then fair enough, but there's no one else left to go and he's online but won't take his turn until the last minute. It's not expressly forbidden, but it is just bloody bad manners.

[FabledIntegral]

I really find it amusing people who say "it's war," when it's a fricken online computer game that highly resembles a board game.

[tsioumiou]

freestyle with skill is unbeatable. and a skillful freestyler (strategy skillful) can compete some1 skillful in sequential. while the opposite doesnt happen

[ignatious]

I think waiting is fair. What I don't understand is how some people move so quickly in freestyle. Don't you still have to select the country you want to attack from the drop-down (doesn't always default to right one) and sometimes you don't want to advance everything so takes a sec to put armies to 0. Is there some trick to this I'm missing or are some people just that fast?

[reggie_mac]

Clickable maps, high speed internet connections, but that is a good point, if some people are going to do anything they can to be faster, why not do everything you can to be slower.

[tsioumiou]

Clickable maps, high speed internet connections, but that is a good point, if some people are going to do anything they can to be faster, why not do everything you can to be slower.

true u cant play freestyle with a bad connection. we are talking about the ppl with a normal connection though like myself

[the egg]

Going in the last seconds of a turn is definitely playing the system to your advantage and it is inherently fair. Click-able maps are also fair, available to everyone, just as spiked shoes for track runners or wide receiver gloves for football players. Using the best equipment is not cheap but is natural.

I believe that there are better ways to measure your skill than playing freestyle speeds which is why I no longer choose to play that game style. Sequential games are more strategical (but not more fair) because they have all users on the same playing field in terms of equipment. 1 v 1 sequential games / 2 v 2 are a joke though due to luck of the draw going first.

[reggie_mac]

Clickable maps, high speed internet connections, but that is a good point, if some people are going to do anything they can to be faster, why not do everything you can to be slower.

true u cant play freestyle with a bad connection. we are talking about the ppl with a normal connection though like myself

I used to play ass doodles on a dodgy connection (constant time outs, like every 3rd click) without clicky maps, i got my ass handed to me most times, but i still enjoyed it,And i guess that's what it comes to at the end of the day, if your not enjoying playing the game then don't bitch about it, just don't play it.