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new freestyle loophole

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:24 am
by JOHNNYROCKET24
forgive me for the double post, but I thought this might deserve a new topic


round 1

player A moves
player B moves

round 2

player A doesnt move in 12 hours

player B moves
player A moves

round 3

player B moves


player B made 3 of the last 4 moves just because player A dint move within 12 hours. thats worse than a forced missed turn. we made the loophole worse than it was. unless im missing something here ?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:27 am
by firth4eva
Yes. You are missing the point that nobody cares.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:31 am
by chessplaya
firth4eva wrote:Yes. You are missing the point that nobody cares.


:lol: :lol:

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:36 am
by Elwar
How is that worse :?

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:44 am
by Iliad
firth4eva wrote:Yes. You are missing the point that nobody cares.

:lol:

And no Johhny there isn't anything broken here

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:47 am
by orion_
firth4eva wrote:Yes. You are missing the point that nobody cares.

Re: new freestyle loophole

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:49 am
by wicked
Yes we changed the fact that B will no longer be suprised and lose armies. Player A can still delay 23.9 hours and get a defacto double turn, but this way he doesn't screw B.

Re: new freestyle loophole

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:05 am
by autoload
wicked wrote:Yes we changed the fact that B will no longer be suprised and lose armies. Player A can still delay 23.9 hours and get a defacto double turn, but this way he doesn't screw B.


Will Player B get screwed if Player A delays 23.91 hours?

Re: new freestyle loophole

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:07 am
by gimil
autoload wrote:
wicked wrote:Yes we changed the fact that B will no longer be suprised and lose armies. Player A can still delay 23.9 hours and get a defacto double turn, but this way he doesn't screw B.


Will Player B get screwed if Player A delays 23.91 hours?


not anymore

Re: new freestyle loophole

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:10 am
by Telvannia
gimil wrote:
autoload wrote:
wicked wrote:Yes we changed the fact that B will no longer be suprised and lose armies. Player A can still delay 23.9 hours and get a defacto double turn, but this way he doesn't screw B.


Will Player B get screwed if Player A delays 23.91 hours?


not anymore



I hate to piss on your bonfires, player A would deadbeat if he delayed 23.91 hours 3 goes consecutively :lol: :roll:

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:51 am
by oVo
Excluding a missed go, by the end of round 3 both players will have taken three turns.

Re: new freestyle loophole

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:00 am
by JOHNNYROCKET24
wicked wrote:Yes we changed the fact that B will no longer be suprised and lose armies. Player A can still delay 23.9 hours and get a defacto double turn, but this way he doesn't screw B.


screw player B? he gets to make 3 turns to player A's 1 including back to back. that is huge.

Re: new freestyle loophole

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:20 am
by Genghis Khan CA
JOHNNYROCKET24 wrote:forgive me for the double post, but I thought this might deserve a new topic


round 1

player A moves
player B moves

round 2

player A doesnt move in 12 hours

player B moves
player A moves

round 3

player B moves


player B made 3 of the last 4 moves just because player A dint move within 12 hours. thats worse than a forced missed turn. we made the loophole worse than it was. unless im missing something here ?


JR how is this any worse than:

"round 1

player A moves
player B moves

round 2

player A moves after 23.95 hours

player B misses a turn

round 3

player A moves"

Which is what happened under the old system.

Again, player A has made 3 out of the last 4 moves, but player B misses a turn completely. Under the new system no one is forced to miss a turn. In addition, under your scenario player A at least has the opportunity to play within 12 hours and get his turn in first in round 2.

So in summary yes you are missing something, the rules are much fairer now than they have been in the past, and freestyle is always going to throw up some oddities in terms of turn order. At least forced missed turns are no longer possible which is a change for the better.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:22 am
by wicked
Thank you Genghis. That's exactly what I was trying to say this morning, but had just woken up. :lol:

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:25 am
by MeDeFe
And of course, if Johnny is worried he might always do something like this:

round 1

Johnny moves
player B moves

round 2

Johnny doesnt move in 12 hours

player B moves
Johnny doesn't move

round 3

Johnny moves and gets double armies
player B curses and tries to salvage what's left.

Re: new freestyle loophole

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:29 am
by JOHNNYROCKET24
Genghis Khan CA wrote:
JOHNNYROCKET24 wrote:forgive me for the double post, but I thought this might deserve a new topic


round 1

player A moves
player B moves

round 2

player A doesnt move in 12 hours

player B moves
player A moves

round 3

player B moves


player B made 3 of the last 4 moves just because player A dint move within 12 hours. thats worse than a forced missed turn. we made the loophole worse than it was. unless im missing something here ?


JR how is this any worse than:

"round 1

player A moves
player B moves

round 2

player A moves after 23.95 hours

player B misses a turn

round 3

player A moves"

Which is what happened under the old system.

Again, player A has made 3 out of the last 4 moves, but player B misses a turn completely. Under the new system no one is forced to miss a turn. In addition, under your scenario player A at least has the opportunity to play within 12 hours and get his turn in first in round 2.

So in summary yes you are missing something, the rules are much fairer now than they have been in the past, and freestyle is always going to throw up some oddities in terms of turn order. At least forced missed turns are no longer possible which is a change for the better.


understood- yeah I missed the 3 turns out of 4 in the old system

Re: new freestyle loophole

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:42 am
by Genghis Khan CA
JOHNNYROCKET24 wrote:understood- yeah I missed the 3 turns out of 4 in the old system


Great, I like happy endings! :D

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:08 am
by oVo
So another fix to the old 1v1 freestyle might have been,

round 2 - player A moves and player B doesn't

round 3 - player A can't take turn until player B goes
because he moved last in round 2

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:57 pm
by MeDeFe
And what if B "misses" his turn again?

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:40 pm
by Scott-Land
why doesnt player c get to play?

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:38 pm
by Herakilla
Scott-Land wrote:why doesnt player c get to play?


AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA when i read that i imagined a whiny little voice

the old tactic they are discussing only worked 1v1 unless all but one players in a game agreed to do it lol