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Can we please change the endtime of domination rounds? | |||||||
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At the moment domination ends at 3 AM for those of us in Europe. Which means that most weeks I am not able to play, since I have a job. I understand that changing it to a more old-world-friendly time might screw those in North America, but couldn’t we have variable times? As long as it is not just after rollover any time between rollover on Wednesday and rollover on Thursday should not make a difference for amount of visits, AF and such. Even if just once a month there was a more friendly time I would be happy. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 10:09AM | View Fatquack's Profile | # | ||||||
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Nah, I like it the way it is.
We get all the fat people and you get all of the castles; I find it pretty fitting that we should get the good domination times. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 2:55PM | View TeeKayEff's Profile | # | ||||||
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It could definitely be more neutral, doesn’t have to be thaaat biased. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 2:57PM | View Echuu's Profile | # | ||||||
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Echuu Posted: Europe is neutral enough already, they’ve got Switzerland. It’s only natural for the nation stationing FOX News and the Green party to be slightly biased. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 2:58PM | View TeeKayEff's Profile | # | ||||||
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I think, but could be wrong here, that there are manual things which need to be done at Domination end time, so it needs to be a time when people who can do those things — located on the east coast of Canada — would be awake.
If that’s the case, the problem could be solved by cycling the end times of the round throughout Wednesday, and publishing a schedule in advance for planning purposes. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 3:06PM | View MC Banhammer's Profile | # | ||||||
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As a Eurofabulous person I support this. My grades have really been slipping since I started playing domination, because it’s pretty hard to do well in school when I’ve only slept for 3 hours. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 3:11PM | DEAD fabulous person | # | ||||||
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this wouldn’t be such an issue if domination wasn’t so dependant on last minute moves. It’s broken. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 4:16PM | View BirdofPrey's Profile | # | ||||||
Maybe the length of a Domination round should be increased. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 4:34PM | View twas's Profile | # | ||||||
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was Posted:
wouldn’t make a difference, everyone would still wait until the very end to do all their card-playing and such. It’s lame.
Someone suggested before some kind of limit on how many cards can be played in a certain amount of time or something like that. i think there needs to be some variation of that put into place. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 4:52PM | View BirdofPrey's Profile | # | ||||||
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BirdofPrey Posted:
Couple of ideas:
1) No cards can be played during the last 24 hours. So there’d still be a rush but you have a day to recover.
2) Limit the number of cards a player can hold to something like 5. You’d be forced to use them throughout the week if you wanted to while still being able to do some last-minute ninja-ing, but the impact wouldn’t be a strong in that last minute. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 5:05PM | View MC Banhammer's Profile | # | ||||||
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MC Banhammer Posted:
I like this idea. I think it can be a little more than 5 (maybe 7 or something)
That allows for other features, like granting special bonuses depending on your cards, for example if all of your 7 cards are destroyers, destroyers will be slightly more effective for you. I’m thinking +1 for 3, another +1 for 6, and one more +1 for all 7. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 5:08PM | View BirdofPrey's Profile | # | ||||||
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No cards in the last 24 hours sounds a little blindsighted to me. People could just save up 12 visits and go on an 50-scoop last minute rush, or just do a last minute Klan raid, in the case of the latter it’d be terribly biased towards those clans that are large and domination oriented (i.e., Brainfreeze, Good Omens, and Brainfreeze).
Maybe each card has a different “life span”? Say, you need to use your modest improvements within a day of buying them, your shotguns go defunct after 2 days, bumholes dead in 36 hours, etc. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 8:02PM | View TeeKayEff's Profile | # | ||||||
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all these suggestions sound like people have never played n the top bracket.
that bracket is all about cards, otherwise it would be whoever could do the best lemon/pistachio run at the last minute, EVERY WEEK.
way i see it, leave it as it is, but let people label themselves as euro or american in their options, and run two different domination times, and let people place into pods based on their selection. Pickled Dickbutt edited this message on 05/30/2008 8:14PM |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 8:12PM | Pickled male reproductive organbum... | # | ||||||
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Pickled male reproductive organbum Posted:
But if we do that I couldn’t bumhole you anymore. Where’s the fun in that?Log in to see images!
More seriously, if we have two sections that are separated we can’t stop our transatlantic competition from gaining medals, making the leaderboard terribly unbalanced. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 8:18PM | DEAD fabulous person | # | ||||||
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yeah you can, you just register as transatlantic Log in to see images! |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 8:20PM | Pickled male reproductive organbum... | # | ||||||
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if it were me though, i’d just set an alarm for 2:40am and suck it up once a week. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 8:22PM | Pickled male reproductive organbum... | # | ||||||
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Pickled male reproductive organbum Posted: Read my post above, in which I pointed out the same flaw. However, having the entire week summed up in who can play the most cards in one minute is just as equally broken. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 8:27PM | View TeeKayEff's Profile | # | ||||||
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While I think the timing is awkward for euro players they constitute a small fraction of the userbase.
I do however think some things can be done to limit the horde shields and modests until the last minute and blitz routine that everyone seems to do currently.
If you limit the number of cards that can be played in an hour it becomes a much more strategic game. Another idea would be to keep the time roughly the same but to have it end at a random time during that hour. You could hide the precise end time and people would need to rush a bit earlier or risk losing access to cards. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 8:29PM | View Vuron's Profile | # | ||||||
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i just don’t see how that could work. you’d have to throw the cards out early and subject yourself to so many attacks that shields become worthless |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 8:35PM | Pickled male reproductive organbum... | # | ||||||
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Vuron Posted: This sounds very interesting. |
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Posted On: 05/30/2008 8:35PM | View TeeKayEff's Profile | # | ||||||