Effects on a Game from Expelling Player
Posted: 18 June 2014, 11:40
I would think someone would have posted on this, but I can't find it. Sorry if this is a repeat.
So I've got this game of Stone Age. Player A, first on turn, never took his turn. So he got expelled. So it skipped to Player B to start. Next round Player B got to start again. Then it went to C & D. Then there we are on Player A again, who isn't there, so B gets to go, and then B gets to go again on the next round. So every time it comes around again, Player B gets to go twice in a row.
This is an unfair, unbalanced problem for this game. (I'm already foreseeing a definitive problem with him getting to start next round again when it should be me. Little problem of a card... )
There's other problems, which I think are more minor, like that all 4 hut piles are still there, and no one gets blocked out of the village. I don't think the huts are hurting anything, but the village issue kinda makes it easier - I'm sure someone would mind that.
It's turn-based, but I'm not seeing that this issue would be any different with the real-time games. ?? That's why I was surprised to not see anything about this, cause this could throw off a lot of games when this happens, not just because of start player but all sorts of reasons.
I'm seeing this as kind of a serious issue. I would think either everyone would need to agree to play that way (like in a case where it doesn't really matter), or fix it so the game realizes that the players have changed and adjust accordingly.
So I've got this game of Stone Age. Player A, first on turn, never took his turn. So he got expelled. So it skipped to Player B to start. Next round Player B got to start again. Then it went to C & D. Then there we are on Player A again, who isn't there, so B gets to go, and then B gets to go again on the next round. So every time it comes around again, Player B gets to go twice in a row.
This is an unfair, unbalanced problem for this game. (I'm already foreseeing a definitive problem with him getting to start next round again when it should be me. Little problem of a card... )
There's other problems, which I think are more minor, like that all 4 hut piles are still there, and no one gets blocked out of the village. I don't think the huts are hurting anything, but the village issue kinda makes it easier - I'm sure someone would mind that.
It's turn-based, but I'm not seeing that this issue would be any different with the real-time games. ?? That's why I was surprised to not see anything about this, cause this could throw off a lot of games when this happens, not just because of start player but all sorts of reasons.
I'm seeing this as kind of a serious issue. I would think either everyone would need to agree to play that way (like in a case where it doesn't really matter), or fix it so the game realizes that the players have changed and adjust accordingly.
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