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Add "Regenerate Map" Button to DW

deletedover 10 years

Tl;dr Sometimes maps suck. A button should be added to let us regenerate new ones without remaking a lobby.

A lot of the fun of Dice Wars is contingent on the map not being terrible and everyone feeling they have at least a chance. When the map opens up and we see the higher dice counts look something like:

Red: 1 six, 2 fives, 4 fours

Blue: 1 six, 3 fives, 3 fours

Green: 2 six, 1 five, 6 fours

Orange: 4 sixes, 2 five, 2 fours

It's disheartening, because it's pretty much guaranteed that orange is going to absolutely stomp everyone. Not only is it unfun for everyone else in that position, it's going to be a long and drawn out process of everyone losing. Diplomacy and "team up on first place" only go so far against fighting legitimately broken starting positions

Rather than forcing everyone to quit every single time this happens, the solution should be handle-able in game. Right above the turn list, put a button that says "Regenerate Map". If 50% or more of the lobby push it before one full turn cycle of all players is completed, regenerate a new map. This process should be repeatable, even in a regenerated map, since one time will not always be enough.

This would go a long way towards making dice wars universally playable rather than something to quit on turn one on if the outcome is obvious.

Add the button
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Add a "regenerate map" button
Add a "regenerate map" button?
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Toke Joption
over 10 years
Stupid feature, it's not the fact it's a balanced game, no game that's fun is completely balanced. Since it's main mechanic is luck, who cares if someone is lucky with dice rolls.
over 10 years
2/3 and I'll sign
over 10 years
I wouldn't allow this after the first turn. It wouldn't be fair for the winning guy to just have the map regenerated in the middle of the game just because he is winning.

Also up it to 75%