Stone Age / Not Alone

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shparks79
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Stone Age / Not Alone

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When playing Stone Age, there are times when everyone has to pick an item, in order by turn. The last person gets whatever item is the last one left. Since there is no possible course of action other than clicking the last item to pick it up, I would appreciate if you would change the game so that the last remaining item is picked up automatically. There is no reason to wait for that player's turn.

There is a similar situation in Not Alone, except this one comes up every round and involves multiple players. We all have to wait while every player chooses to pass rather than play a particular card based on which of the four phases we are in. The game asks us if we want to play or pass even when we don't have a phase appropriate card to play, and the only actual option is to pass. Since passing is the only thing we can do, I don't see the point of having to wait for each player to click the pass button every time. Please change it so that it passes automatically whenever you do not have any other option but to pass.
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RicardoRix
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Re: Stone Age / Not Alone

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For Not Alone, will that not suggest whether you have that Phase card or not in-hand? There is a similar situation in For Sale where the player is auto skipped if they don't have enough money therefore inadvertently signalling exactly how much money they have.

For stone age, this has been discussed a few time before. The last player still needs to be given the time to acknowledge the item taken, follow the game flow and to observe the other items taken.

You can see all the potential bug reports about being skipped and left-out. 'The game didn't let me .... and just skipped my turn'.
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Jest Phulin
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Re: Stone Age / Not Alone

Post by Jest Phulin »

shparks79 wrote: 15 November 2019, 02:04 There is no reason to wait for that player's turn.
One reason to wait is to ensure that all players are alerted to changes in their inventory. It may not seem like a great reason to you, but it is a reason.

That being said, I feel a good compromise would be something like is implemented in Puerto Rico: individual options to auto-play turns if there is only one legal move available.
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