Option to change from Real Time to Casual and back

[Kjell]

I for one would appreciate it. Say you're having a game with some friends or strangers and the game is taking much longer than expected (like the three hour game I played last saturday), but you don't want to give up, wouldn't it be great with a pause mode button? It'd have to pause the game for everyone (decided by vote? Or everyone agreeing by clicking somewhere?) and resumed when everyone has the time again.

Just a suggestion, I know you guys have more pressing matters right now.

 

[zspBANNED]

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I like where you're going with this, Kjell. There was a suggestion made in the majcom forums which should have been placed here to be given it's proper attention. What do you think about this instead?

 

[Kjell]

I think that's a good idea as well, I'd like to have both the option of "morphing" a game into casual or realtime and pausing it.

 

[Badorties]

I like this as well. +longlist.

 

[ORBOTRON]

I like the original idea of converting to casual, I think the pause button could lead to quite a few endless games. If just one person involved leaves the site, the game is stuck in limbo forever, whereas if it's simply converted to casual, that player would AWOL and allow the game to go on, even be changed back to RT if everyone was able to get together at the same time again (minus the AWOLer).

 

[zspBANNED]

So to be sure, you, ORBOTRON, agree with my post!?!?

 

[Kjell]

I like the original idea of converting to casual, I think the pause button could lead to quite a few endless games. If just one person involved leaves the site, the game is stuck in limbo forever, whereas if it's simply converted to casual, that player would AWOL and allow the game to go on, even be changed back to RT if everyone was able to get together at the same time again (minus the AWOLer).

I guess, but that's a risk you'll have to take. Would be nice with a pause button though, in case players want to take a quick break to go to the store real quick, make phone call or whatever without doing the rt->causal->rt conversion.

 

[ORBOTRON]

the thing is, it would be just as easy to convert from RT-CAS-RT as it would to go from RT-PAUSED-RT, to me, it's really a no brainer. By converting to CAS, you basically pause the game, without risk of it turning never ending.

Z, to be sure, I agree with a suggestion started by someone else, that you happened to also agree with, haha