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MallaLubba
11-26-2003, 09:38 AM
I understand the point of the time limit and I think it's great, but what if there was a pause button in the game. Say someone calls me while I'm playing or something, and I just need a little while to get back I don't to accidentally time out and loose the game.
My suggestion would be that one player would click the pause and the other player would have to click his/her pause as well. This would put the board in pause until BOTH player unclick the button. Also the pause would only last a certain amount of time. This way a player can't dupe another into setting the pause and then leave the room for 5 days to get the win. Basically it would just give someone a little more time to go to the bathroom or something. They'd have to communicate a little to accomplish this, but if someone told me they'd brb I'd be willing to keep the game going instead of getting the cheap win.
Thought?

jaydude6
11-26-2003, 10:30 AM
sound good.
just adds a minute or 2 though... we do have lives

AzN_GuY
11-26-2003, 04:18 PM
Situation:
John "Cheapass" Doe (record 0-12-3) vs Jane "Unsuspecting" Doe (record: 15-2-4)

Please no complaints about the girl being the unsuspecting one...

John's losing (again) so he reverts to a new tactic:
John: sry, i REALLY gotta go 2 teh bathrroom... pause plz????
Jane: The game's almost over...
John: PLZ PLZ PLZZZZZ IM GONNA PISS MY PANTS
Jane: You could just surrender yknow...
John: BUT I CAN WINNNNNN
Jane: sigh... alright.
John: THANK YEW *pauses*
Jane: *pauses*

***10 mins later****
Jane:... back yet?
***10 mins later still****
Jane:.... um...
***5 mins later***
SYSTEM: ***Jane has exited the game***

John gets a win!!!

jaydude6
11-26-2003, 04:25 PM
note i said 1 to 2 minutes... after that it would "accidentally" unpause.

AzN_GuY
11-26-2003, 04:27 PM
i cant get to the bathroom and back in less than 1-2 minutes every single time...

Hydrant
11-26-2003, 04:41 PM
There should be some way to pause

maybe like a 5 min time limit

icedragon
11-27-2003, 01:26 PM
yeah, good idea! so if i suddenly get thirsty in the middle of a game, i have enough time to go to get a drink :)

Shadoww3
11-27-2003, 02:56 PM
I thought about this, it could also abuse waiting for unit drops.

Bills
11-27-2003, 02:58 PM
There is no pause button in the works and chances are wont be ever:)

Seiya
11-27-2003, 05:13 PM
A pause button makes so much sense if you think about it though - just today someone came in and had to talk to me. I couldn't pause the game and by the time I got back to it I was sitting out in the lobby; with a loss added to my record. You can give the other person a win if you'd like (because they did wait patientely), but personally I don't think it's fair to recieve a loss like that. I hope at least the losing part gets reconsidered...