Saladin wrote:If it's easier Hannibal, than you could also just make it a full duel game.
Many thanks. I appreciate the offer. Really. But Duel-Lite really SHOULD work, now that I finalised the rules for it; and I know the engine can do it; it's just that, er, the set-up defaults to Full Duel (till Kor intervenes to change it), which means that the nap-restrictions of Full Duel get applied to Duel-Lite when they shouldn't, which blows orders.
BOTH Full Duel and Duel-Lite have had separate clear rules and engine-policing for weeks now; but the the problems are two-fold: 1) a set-up of a Duel-Lite still needs Kor to switch it from Duel to Duel-Lite, apparently before you start; and 2) the engine still defaults to print Houserules of ages ago, before I updated them.
I'll get on to making the 2 sets of rules clear AND get Kor to make any new game default to THEM rather than earlier versions of Houserules (I did already ask that a while back ...).
But, Sal, I just took a look: even these, the OLD rules, and for DUEL rather than Duel-Lite, do still clearly say, TWICE, that NOBODY, Human or Robo, can HEADHUNT for TWO turns:
From even the current Houserules attached to your new Water-Crossing game:
"In addition, no player can attack an opponent's home provinces for the first TWO turns. (including missiles and spy opperations.) ....
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A reminder: on Turn 01 AND Turn 02, no attacking, missiling or spying the start-province of any of your human opponents, nor of any Robo-player. After Turn 2, ........................"
THAT bit is TWICE clear, in ALL versions of the rules of EVERY Duel!
I feel the need to defend that rule of mine here: Hey: Duel is very intense; it risks being all over in 4 turns. Not ideal. Giving 2 turns of grace gets the balance a bit better, the game a bit longer. Plus: In Standard, you could always, possibly, make some kind of a comeback after a loust first 2 turns; via diplomacy with others; but in Duel there are no others; defeat at end of turn 1 or 2 leaves you no way out; the BALANCE for a Duel means it it's best to have TWO turns of no head-hunting, to avoid any "game-all-over" after 1 or 2 turns, with no diplo way out ... Plus: it adds more skill? : You can't simply spy on the other's start-provs, not for two turns; you have to use judgement as to where they will end up, OTHER than their start-provs, to spy on THOSE where you judge they'll be, rather thasn on those (start-prov) where you KNOW they'll be. At least for the first 2 turns.
Yep, I know this is a confusing difference from Standard 10-player WOK, but it's better for all Duels. Easy to remember: ALL Duels have two turns of grace/no head-hunting, no doing ANYTHING against the start-provs. Believe me, it makes Duels better, or else it might all be over in too short a time, ALL Duel rule-sets have ALWAYS had this rule of no head-hunting till after T2, that has never varied; it was there in these Houserules, too ....stated twice for emphasis and clarity.
Right, do you wanna re-start? Or switch to Full Duel? Or restart with new set-up? My best suggestion is: you restart from Turn 0, current set-up, with new orders each from Turn 0. But wait till Kor makes the engine know it is a LITE game, not a Full Duel game.
Lemme know your thoughts?
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