Real time games, much faster, to play in single sitting like 3-12 hours limited

It happened during Christmass that there were games with speed of 4x, but maybe it would be great to allow players from some level like 20lvl to make games 2x speed, 30lvl games 3x speed, and so on, until 100lvl games 10x speed?

10x Speed would be insane, 4x speed is enough, an hour goes by in half time. 10x Speed would be like, 10 minutes and Light Tanks is already done, not saying thats a bad thing, but think about it, the round would be over in a few days.

Yes indeed, over a weekend Europe map could be finished

Those who work/study/travel, could start and finish the game without much of problem for being absent, during one weekend

It would make possible to play Call of War, more like a Real-Time-Strategy, than a long tour game, as it is with speed 1x. More new possibilieties, and it would engage players for who slow pace of game is too boring cause they want more of fast action

Ah okay, My bad I understand what you are saying now, You want a game that is fast paced so that you can finish it in a weekend.

Yeah, for example. Just adding option for players to choose the pace of the games, with which they want to play. That would add to interest of the game and as such feature is available, as it was used in 4x games, it does not need that much of developing probably.

I vote for 60x speed. Everything that takes an hour will instead take a minute.

30 days worth of game would be playable in 12 hours.

Yes, that might be insane. . .

That would make Call of War a RTS, real time strategy. I'm not sure if 60x is needed, probably max 20x would do the job You would play 20 days in one day, and for medium size maps it's enough sometimes.

Games with faster speeds put more of a load on the servers. So, Byrto wants to have control over creating the faster speed games.

Seems legit. So they could be set up by Bytro only, for a gold to join for example.

JCS Darragh wrote:

10x Speed would be insane, 4x speed is enough, an hour goes by in half time. 10x Speed would be like, 10 minutes and Light Tanks is already done, not saying thats a bad thing, but think about it, the round would be over in a few days.

VorlonFCW wrote:

I vote for 60x speed. Everything that takes an hour will instead take a minute.

30 days worth of game would be playable in 12 hours.

Yes, that might be insane. . .

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Personally I would join much more games. I would add games more often if they would last shorter.

Main reason I don't is knowing that new games will last like a month or so, and I don't want to be involved for such a long time. If it was a week or weekend I would play and join more often.

The game is often too long, too slow, and too boring, that's why I play now in few of them.

I think of quitting playing, cause it's slow.

If I could choose faster maps to finish during 3-5 days, I would join them, instead of those lasting a month.

I doubt we will ever see this happening. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, games like Hearts of Iron IV and Europa Universalis IV, which aren't in real-time, already offer this idea of ultra-fast games which can finish in hours. I believe Bytro did these games in real-time to distance themselves from these brands. If they were very similar, they would be in direct competition with Paradox, which is a company with much more resources. Secondly, Bytro gets money when people buy goldmarks. What do people use goldmarks for? Speeding up productions. If something only takes 20 minutes to produce, people are much less likely to spend gold, resulting in less revenue for Bytro.

The kind of game your describing can be found in volume on facebook or any other half baked gaming site.

I strongly disagree. The appeal of CoW is precisely its slow pace that allows you to log in once or twice a day and play, instead of having to stay on your computer during the entire game. It’s a game that lets you do other activities on the side, which I for instance as a student really appreciate.

If you want faster paced games you’ll be very content with the wide selection of fast-paced strategy games out there.

Well, Just a suggestion, there are lots of games in CoN that are x4 Speeds, if you wanted to see how fast that game is, go check one out there. I would agree that CoW is slow, but you should go check out how fast the game is when it is at x4 Speed.

JCS Darragh wrote:

Well, Just a suggestion, there are lots of games in CoN that are x4 Speeds, if you wanted to see how fast that game is, go check one out there. I would agree that CoW is slow, but you should go check out how fast the game is when it is at x4 Speed.

There could be a map, in a faster climax, where every turn will last for 10minutes, building and production would be faster , etc...

They could start as Weekend maps

Pablo22510 wrote:

I doubt we will ever see this happening. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, games like Hearts of Iron IV and Europa Universalis IV, which aren't in real-time, already offer this idea of ultra-fast games which can finish in hours. I believe Bytro did these games in real-time to distance themselves from these brands. If they were very similar, they would be in direct competition with Paradox, which is a company with much more resources.

Then CoW could serve a) those who like slow games and b) those who like fast games, which means more of possible gamers, more of possible income then. Games which You mentioned are paid to play online on Steam, so CoW as cheaper option could go well in this competition, stealing many of fans of those games.

Such games have much more of fans, so it's a huge market to compete on. And to go there won't make to lose slow-pace-players, just a chance to gain fast-pace-players

There are games like Warzone.com, which is turn-game, which offer both, real time games and multi-day games, whoever prefer, chooses to join one or another

Secondly, Bytro gets money when people buy goldmarks. What do people use goldmarks for? Speeding up productions. If something only takes 20 minutes to produce, people are much less likely to spend gold, resulting in less revenue for Bytro.

Somebody said that faster games would need more of server usage. Then count this servers cost into cost of joining such games.

It was good idea to experiment in such games as weekend ones Or Saturday games, starting in the morning and ending at midnight.

ThanosC wrote:

There could be a map, in a faster climax, where every turn will last for 10minutes, building and production would be faster , etc...

They could start as Weekend maps

Are you talking every hour takes 10 minutes? Because current speed maps are normally 4X speed; an hour is passed by in 15 minutes.

Are you asking for a day to take ten minutes? That is honestly going to lead to a lot of problems player-side, in keeping things under control. 1440 minutes in a day, you would effectively be at 144 times faster pace. A new industrial complex would only take 20 minutes. The map would be over in about two hours. It sounds awesome on the outside, would be a hell of a match to get through.

Or, do you mean "turn" as in a round? Because if the map was over in ten minutes, it might not even have enough players to be ranked, by the time it is over.

Okay, It seems I messed everything up when I said an hour goes by in like, 10 minutes. An hour will still take a while, but you could go say, send a unit from London to Dublin, go afk for about thirty minutes, come back and that unit be half way there. 4x speed is really, really fast, you could probably research a light tank in just under a couple hours. In all reality there has to be more speed games for the players that want to play a CoW game in just one sitting (maybe the Premium people can make them if they want to) that would be generated with all the other maps. Idk, That is just my two cents on this 'issue'.