SpielByWeb

[JeffyJeff]

I noticed several times I've been told it's my turn, and it is, but when I get there, my only choice is "click here to receive your income"...

It would be nice if the game coud skip that if there is no choice and just hand out the income (maybe sending out an email telling me what it's done, but not that it's my turn). That should speed up play a little. I think Wallenstein does something similiar in most cases where the action has no user interaction needed.

Jeff

[jbluestein]

Doing this gives information to other players, though. It tells them that you have no power cards that could influence your income, not necessarily something you want them to know. I realize this slows things down somewhat, but IMO it's an acceptable slowdown.

[JeffyJeff]

good point, unless it did the auto-complete after a random amount of time, and not during sleeping hours, if the player hasn't manually completed the turn (and had no options)... though that would be a lot more work to implement, and would fill a very small niche that probably not worth the effort

[Montu]

[qzhdad]

Maybe when setting up the game, the creator could select the autoselect option. People that were worried about giving away info could avoid those games. Realistically, this information isn't overly useful to one's opponents. And how often will one not play a power card for 3 points? (And it's not often that I hold an income enhancing card for an extra round.)

[Abbacus]

[JeffyJeff]

[Montu]

Jeff is right. Since green cards are played after the sacrifice, they cannot possibly affect that. And since the likelihood is extremely high that you will buy more cards before the next sacrifice, knowing someone had no green cards last round does not tell you that they have none this round (unless they do not acquire more cards, which is rare).

Someone please give me a practical example of when knowing that another player has no green or scoring power card could be strategically useful.

[Mabi]

I agree that this kind of information would be negligible, so I support the proposal of auto-completion when you don't have any cards to play. But not in the other case: I don't want the system automatically playing the cards for me, at least not the income cards (it's not uncommon to save up one for a later turn). About the bonus scoring cards, I can't imagine a situation where I wouldn't play them.

[JimF]

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[Abbacus]

[Golux13]

This sounds like an awful lot of fuss over what is, in the end, a very minor inconvenience. Having to click even when you have no options is not so horrible that I would want Mikael to devote significant time or effort to "fixing," not when there are so many other things I would like to see -- new games, new features to enhance playability (e.g., the colorblindness issue discussed in another thread), bug fixes (when necessary), etc.

[JeffyJeff]

[Golux13]

You're right, the delay for other players is another inconvenience. Again, I think it's a minor incremental delay, given the general pace of play. If someone is a bottleneck, then whether you are in Scoring or Harvest & Collect Income is not going to make a big difference. Whether you're waiting for the player ahead of you to "click here to receive your income" or to make some substantive decision and act on it, you're going to wait. I would guess that an auto-complete function would shorten a one-move-per-day game of Amun-Re by half a day, maybe one day at best.

For the record, I say all this as someone who checks in several times a day in the (usually vain) hope that one or more of my games will have advanced.