New Setting: Domination victory

by **OliverFA** on Sat Aug 31, 2013 10:45 am

Concise description:
If at the begining of a player turn, that player has 67% of territories, 67% of armies and 67% of income, then the game is won by Domination.

If that's too low, make it 75% or 80%

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
It will avoid boring and tedious endgames, when its clear who has won yet the game must continue.

It will make for a more climatic end game.

by **greenoaks** on Sat Aug 31, 2013 5:10 pm

Games can be won with a comeback from just 1 territory.

I have done so on Realms 2, Speed, No fog.

not sure how many were in the game but at the time of almost elimination there were 3 of us. 10,000+ games and i still remember that comeback.

btw, it's a no from me.

by **OliverFA** on Sat Aug 31, 2013 5:39 pm

I don't question games can be won with a comeback from just 1 territory. But, which is the percentage of games lost by a player who was the leader with the conditions I marked? I would be surprised if that was higher than 10%

As an option, would eliminate boredom from ending part of games, and contribute keeping players engaged in the site.

Plus, you are talking about a completely different thing. I talk about leading player. I don't say anything about the rest of players.

by **greenoaks** on Sat Aug 31, 2013 6:05 pm

i just don't see it adding enough of a difference to what we have to warrant its development.

it will split players between similar settings making games slower to fill. your attempt to improve the situation for some will end up lessening the enjoyment for all.

by **JamesKer1** on Sat Aug 31, 2013 7:20 pm

This would suck in a escu game for a player that is about to cash a big one....

by **macbone** on Mon Sep 02, 2013 6:02 am

Yep. I've won plenty of escalating games where I only had a few territories left but a nice stack and a cash. A definite no from me.

by **betiko** on Fri Sep 06, 2013 10:19 am

I do think it could be interesting for trench games though. So many are just endless.
As we can t have a resign button and for me the main issue is on trench games, i think this isn t a bad idea for certain settings. It shouldn t be applied in no trench escalating though, ever!