Fabs
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At the risk of appearing positively kinky, I will admit that I like to play hotseat games against myself. (Are there any other people with such perversions out there?)
What is the point of that, I hear you ask.
Well, it goes back to the games of soldiers that I used to play with figures when I was a kid, living in an isolated house and with nobody in the neighborhood who was interested in the hobby.
It is more of an intellectual exercise, and it is very important for it to create the right effect that the player act as umpire as well, and ensure that each side act accordingly to the information that they have.
I sometimes use dice to decide if a particularly inspired move by the current player should be allowed.
The point I'm getting to is that i find it a great shame that it is not possible to use the controlled Opportunity Fire option in such circumstances.
I can see very well what the difficulty is in a two player hotseat game, but would it be possible to start a hotseat game with this option turned off by default, but be able to turn it on for one player hotseat games?
It seems to me that this modification would not require much coding, as it does not introduce a new feature.
While playing a hotseat game as one player, one would be asked from time to time about Opportunity fire and practically switch sides for a moment.
I can understand if some of my fellow gamers find this totally absurd, but I can assure you that this mode of play introduces a different kind of enjoyment of the game.
It is sometimes preferable to playing the AI, which is after all quite predictable, because even if you play against yourself you can not always predict, while deciding on the moves for player A, how you are going to view the situation once you have switched to player B.
If you have the discipline to conduct each player's moves according to the information that they have, and not what you know of the opposite player's intention because only twenty minutes ago you were formulating his plan, what you have is a very evenly matched game.
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