Auto battle only option for mp

VIPDMT

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12 years ago

Aug 2, 2012, 11:56:29 PM

Do you feel it would be a fantastic idea to have auto battle only option for a mp match?

VIPDMT

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VIPDMT

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12 years ago

Aug 3, 2012, 9:10:24 AM

So.. why would you NOT give the option? I am curious as to the reasons.

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VIPFinalStrigon

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12 years ago

Aug 3, 2012, 1:00:45 PM

Battles really don't take that long, and sometimes you need to go into a manual battle to make sure your fleet comes out in one piece. If other players are stuck waiting for the turn to end, they just have to understand that down the line, they may be the ones wading through a number of battles, making everyone wait on them.

wahnvorstellung

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wahnvorstellung

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12 years ago

Aug 3, 2012, 3:15:19 PM

I believe that this could make sense in combination with auto battle cards. Because at the moment it would degrade the abilities of Pilots and Commanders pretty hard. But i like your idea and clicked for yes. In general it would speed up games pretty much & this could be a good option for a small game in the evening =)!

VIPDMT

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VIPDMT

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12 years ago

Aug 3, 2012, 3:31:37 PM

FinalStrigon wrote:
Battles really don't take that long, and sometimes you need to go into a manual battle to make sure your fleet comes out in one piece. If other players are stuck waiting for the turn to end, they just have to understand that down the line, they may be the ones wading through a number of battles, making everyone wait on them.

OK so only join games when they wish to manual battle.... I declare autobattle in the lobby prior to launch and most of the time it is mature players who adhere to this agreement. We do have ruined games due to others who agree at the start then proceed to annoy everyone with manual battles (effectively cheating since all agreed at the start) until the host leaves.

Mortador

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Mortador

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12 years ago

Aug 3, 2012, 7:23:18 PM

No,

My friends and I love to play with manual battle. You should play with players who want to play with auto battle ON only.

VIPDMT

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VIPDMT

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12 years ago

Aug 3, 2012, 8:31:09 PM

Mortador wrote:
No,

My friends and I love to play with manual battle. You should play with players who want to play with auto battle ON only.

Hmm, you should read more. That is exactly what I already said.... Thats why the host should have the option. The whole reason of the pole...

haniblecter

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haniblecter

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12 years ago

Aug 4, 2012, 2:28:34 AM

I think its a pretty big mental game with who's going to play with what. Its a nice part of the game imho. Like poker, but funner, and not televised.

Milaha

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Milaha

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12 years ago

Aug 4, 2012, 5:01:51 AM

If "Auto-battle only" is recognized as an official game mode then amplitude will need to balance around it. Balancing around it will take significant resources away from other aspects of development. Manual battles allow significantly more strategic depth, and if something were to be done to improve the speed of the process, then it should be focused on ways to improve the speed and efficiency of manual battles rather than wasting resources by adding in a mode with far less strategic depth.

There is nothing stopping players from agreeing to an auto-only game right now, it does not need official support and everything that comes with it.

Tony_Bo$$

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Tony_Bo$$

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12 years ago

Aug 8, 2012, 8:56:37 PM

The poll answers should be better. Simply the host doesn't decide for himself since the players in the lobby can see all the settings so simply if you don't want a game with auto-battle only you will not enter it...

but it might be added as an option although that it destroys a part of the strategy option...

Dagobert

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Dagobert

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12 years ago

Aug 8, 2012, 10:38:18 PM

manual without visualisation.

So you can pick a card.

See the effect and how much damage you took and proceed to the next card.

the speed would not be as fast as auto but faster than manual.

nosavynada

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nosavynada

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12 years ago

Aug 8, 2012, 10:50:00 PM

1. You can already just agree to use auto.

2. So now it is the "mature" players who choose auto and by extention the "immature" that choose to play manual?

3. You know why a game is taking too long if you are using the timer option in the Advanced options so that when it gets to the last person still doing their turn a timer starts and then auto ends the turn when it expires. Combined with the fact that the progress / status icon on the upper left shows you who is still doing their turns. So if it is still going ...there is a battle...or potentially the game is locked up which likely is obvious because no ones pleas and comments in chat are updating...

Option - possibly - but as stated there are other things to be placed ahead of that I feel.

sti

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sti

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12 years ago

Aug 9, 2012, 1:39:06 AM

Everything they add takes things away from different aspects. Saying how "mature" players do this doesn't help either.

Mansen

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Mansen

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12 years ago

Aug 9, 2012, 1:42:29 AM

Sure - always nice with options. Saves having to wait for people. It's not like people would join an "auto only" game anyway if they didn't want to play with it.

Azzeral

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Azzeral

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12 years ago

Sep 19, 2012, 9:17:00 AM

The way I play with friends is that we agree before a battle whether we will auto or manual, like a scout against a fleet would be auto. I think it's unfair in MP if you go manual and the other goes auto and you don't have time to make your move after the battle and I also don't think it's fair for the player who played auto.

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