First Turns Fast! poll

[snoopy369]

Okay, please vote here for which turn we should require 12 hours to be followed strictly. Before the decided upon time, we will be more lax with time limits, giving warnings and additional time automatically (24 hours?)

The winning turn will be the lowest turn amount at which 50% of the vote has been reached.

Current voting:

0 turns  	 	2  	9.09%
1 turn  		5 	22.73%
2 turns 		2 	9.09%
3 turns 		4 	18.18%
5 turns 		6 	27.27%
10 turns 		3 	13.64%

22 votes total. 11 votes = half, is reached at 3 turns; so unless voting changes (significantly) in the next day or however long I set the poll for, it's going to be 3 turns of "leniency", with the third turn expected to be pretty close to 12 hours.

[Grandpa Troll]

i chose 3 turns

[bongo]

5, but 3 won't make me terribly upset either

[Grandpa Troll]

nor will 5
its just that well..we set rules and yeah circumstances come up but like games just drag on when they really dont need to

thats all I want it the game to move

Peace

Gramps

[1889]

What! I'm the only hard ass to vote for zero slack? Your all worthless and weak.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by 1889
What! I'm the only hard ass to vote for zero slack? Your all worthless and weak.

u r right..im a weakling felt valid points were made to review start positions

[sabrewolf]

edit: sorry, a load of BS i just wrote. with multiple settlers we do need some more time.

my vote went for 5 turns. otherwise we'll be starting to play some time in july...

[Conqueror]

Damn i understood the poll wrongly and voted for 12 hours I only realised when reading it trough 2nd time that you were giving us more time, not less...

If possible, make my vote count for 5 turns, and disregard my first voting.

[snoopy369]

Conqueror, I voted 5 turns on your behalf, having witheld my vote for this reason. I'll still cast the tiebreaking vote seperately.

[Moonbars]

Voted for 10 turns.

There is so much to decide in the early game if you grant a starter pack....

Anybody who thinks they can co-ordinate terrain scouting, city placement and worker jobs in 12 hours, when some team members will be in different time zones, is going to perform badly in this DG

[1889]

So how much extra time are we talkin' here, 12 more hours? So about 1 turn per week.

I don't see why such a pace would need to continue after the first turn is played. By turn two your units are on the way someplace and you've decided what to research. I'm just stuned that a games concieved with the idea of finishing before CivIV would consider taking 2.5 months to play the first 10 turns. Starts are rough times for a game. The initial excitment wears off fast, this pace compounds those problems. Please keep these factors in mind when you cast your vote.

[Grandpa Troll]

Well spoke indeed sir

[snoopy369]

1889: I'd expect that most of the turns would still be done on time. (And I'm a 2, myself, so I'm not going to defend 10.) This isn't a poll on how long we should expect for each turn, but for how ... nice we should be about people needing time to organize.

But you definitely have a good point. (12/05 is the expected month for CivIV, as a reference for those of you who don't know.)

[Paddy]

5 is a comfortable number to get going

[sabrewolf]

numbers look quite clear now.
currently there are
8 votes for 5 or more turns and
8 votes for 3 and less!

the median therefore should be at 4 imho