Per Turn MP Time Limit? Contribute Your Thoughts!

I like it and am casting a vote for 1-2 minutes. I would like it however if the first turn of the game for each player was a bit more forgiving. It often takes me a little extra time to look at where all the characters are in relation to each other and start to come up with my initial strategy. 3 minutes for that should be plenty though.

As for auto passing I think a 2m, 1m, 30s you're out could be nice.

 

Sounds like a good idea to me, I'm sure you guys could implement it well.
I also agree With Evolved, first turn should clearly give a little more time to plan your strategy.

 

I agree, the first step is usually the hardest to decide so three minutes first turn and then two minutes or 90 seconds for the rest of the game would be fine.
I am more inclined towards the first possibility, autopassing three times for game over would make it faster for players that do want to play to get back into matchmaking instead of needing to kill enemies and stall the game on the vicotry points.

 

This is a great idea, glad you are thinking of stuff like this to enhance the playing experience for the legitimate people who aren't trying to take advantage of others. I also think the reputation system has potential but also will have a lot of consequences that you will have to think through when you implement it.

For this time limit, can you define what is a "turn"? If I am playing you and I am afk, you go first and play your card. Then it sits there for the 2-3 minutes and I do nothing so it passes, then you play your next card...then it sits there for 2-3 minutes again and I do nothing so it passes. Was that one turn or two? If that was two turns, what happens if the turn that they happen to be afk is the final turn of that round and now they are sitting at the discard screen, but they are still afk? Will the discard screen also count as a "turn" for time limit purposes?

 

I am in favor of two minutes with a decreasing timer every time it is auto passed (three auto passes in a row = a boot)
1 minute is bit short for me because sometimes I might want to legitimately sit and think or count squares or something

I can totally understand having the first turn be extra time (3 or 4 minutes) because people might be afk before the round starts waiting on an opponent they may need the extra time.

But maybe if they are passed on their first turn it should be an auto forfeit? It seems like 3 or 4 minutes of inactivity should really let the other player find a real game.


Another option entirely:

Essentially the match would start with a 5 minute timer, but every time you play 30 seconds is added to the timer. If your 5 minutes runs out you go into 90 second overtime where you get 90 seconds per move.
Obviously with this you lose a definite time limit on the match, which would be bad without the victory squares (turtle, turtle), but with them it seems fine as long as both players are playing and drawing cards.

 

Do you have data on how long turns are now? (or, if if this is becoming common, how long turns were a couple of weeks ago?)

Edit: "this" being the akfing that was being discussed in the thread that I was reading that is not this one

 

If I'm reading this correctly, this would reduce the overall game clock to 6 minutes from 20? I think I'd like to see the game clock reduced, but maybe down to 10, and that might be a completely separate discussion from this one.

What about an amendment to "up to a maximum of 17 minutes" to avoid having two discussions at once?

Otherwise, I love that suggestion (and like reducing the maximum clock too, I'm just leery of tangents in forum contexts )

 

The 3 minute turn clock that increases by 30s sounds great.

 

Ok, so, apologies if this is really obvious to everyone but me, but one of my super-powers is asking stupid questions

The proposal here is that the existing 20 minute timer operates as it does, so a game is still no longer than 40 minutes, and in addition, you've got like a "bank" of time for the per-turn thing.

"turn" here is "playing a card", so if you ever spend more than 3 minutes playing a single card, you lose the game, or if you spend more than a minute per
card for three cards in a row, you also lose, but you can fill this "bank" back up to 3 minutes by playing very quickly (or passing) 6 or 7 cards times - Like a Fisher delay with a cap? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_control#Compensation_.28delay_methods.29 )

Assuming that that's right, I like the chess-clocky feel and the instant death. 3 minutes seems very generous for a single card, and I like the building up of that window with play - even if you're thinking very hard, you should pick up an extra chunk of time for your first move or two with the pass at the end of the round, but if you're stalling, then you get down to 30 seconds per card and stay there relatively quickly.

It does sounds a little complex, and the mental picture of two clocks running is not pretty. Presenting it nicely could take a little bit of work, but this seems like a good direction.

 

Sounds like decent idea, minute or few should be plenty of time to decide an action.

However, timer on first turn should be atleast as long as maximum wait time for PvP match (6 min atm?). Reason being that typically when there's less players, people might go and do something else while waiting for the match start.

Either ramp up first turn timer or reduce Pvp wait time. I would prefer reducing pvp wait times, it's quite annoying when after few wins.