Re: Does pente.org support Pente with 3 or more players?
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Apr 17, 2020, 5:42 PM
Back in the old days we used to wonder how teaming up a red and a blue against two yellows might go... each member of the team takes a turn picking the next move for their team's pieces. Not sure it was ever actually tried though. Admittedly a different game than described here, but it would have four participants.
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Re: Does pente.org support Pente with 3 or more players?
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Apr 17, 2020, 6:15 PM
The nice thing about this version is it doesn't take any new code, just the will to play it by players. Unrated, doubtless, but might be fun nonetheless.
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Re: Does pente.org support Pente with 3 or more players?
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Apr 17, 2020, 10:40 PM
I wasn't really thinking about Team Pente, but rather about having more than two colors able to play on the board, like the physical version has (4 different colors on the board I have from Winning Moves, meaning up to four different people could play individually against each other in the same game). Would that be possible for a future version of Pente on the Pente.org website?
Re: Does pente.org support Pente with 3 or more players?
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Apr 17, 2020, 10:46 PM
I knew what you were referring to, just offering an in the meantime possibility. You'd have to check with rainwolf to find out his latest plans for the site, but I think new variants may be on the back burner a bit in favor of automatic tournaments. In the longer term, perhaps.
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Re: Does pente.org support Pente with 3 or more players?
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Apr 19, 2020, 3:37 PM
"Time to start picking teams then. Me and Watsu (Waterbeasts) vs karlw and carlw (Team qarlw)." Or, perhaps the qarlw team vs. the riii team ( richardiii and rlwiii) vs. The Pentegon team (pente_gon and pentegone) in a round robin.
smoke and nosmo_king should probably not be paired, though.
Message was edited by: watsu at Apr 19, 2020, 3:39 PM
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Re: Does pente.org support Pente with 3 or more players?
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Apr 23, 2020, 12:47 AM
Well, in unrated for fun games strategy passing shouldn't theoretically be an issue. I guess if it ever gets coded so that both players can place stones and it's rated if strategy sharing is a concern the timer could be used to limit the ability to do that within a game; tough to share a lot in real time on a 1/5 or less timer, I think.
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