Dice Functionality by rexoverwatch

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[astral ether]

hi

on certain plays,,, say like I have 8 and they have 3... I have to choose single rolls, cuz I only wanna attack so long as I still have 4 troops in the territory I am attacking from.

and I don't think the slider works,,, say you adjust the slider by half....hit blitzroll.... the diceroller will keep going even it has to attack with on only 3 measly troops on the beligerant territory...please make this feature please

I wanna flick a switch "stop attacking when fewer than 4 troops on beligerant territory"

see, if RISK! were open sourced, this functionality would have already been made.

[glossy aspen]

Blitzing doesn’t actually use dice rolls. It just uses the probability of if you were actually rolling dice. And an 8v3 is 100% odds for the attacker so idk why you would ever want to not take those odds and take different odds.

Basically your idea doesn’t make much sense because all you would be doing is worsening your chances of success.

[astral ether]

thank you for furthering my argument,,,,, in RISK! it is possible for 1 to defend agasint 20

any more questions??

[glossy aspen]

Sure if you’re playing True Random but that’s not how 99% of games are played

[astral ether]

yeah i know

[astral ether]

so wheres the table for blizts 100% ers?

I do not want to play balanced blitz,,, I never wanna attack with less than 3 dice////////this would cost hasbro 10000 dollars and 3 months,,, pls make it happen 🙂

[glossy aspen]

Hasbro doesn’t make this game fyi. And can you explain your reasoning for never wanting to attack with less than 3 dice? You should never attack with a roll you wouldn’t want to win. And taking away troops even if they would roll with 1 or 2 dice gives you less of a chance of success for that roll you need to win

[astral ether]

the most powerfull attack i can surmise is that of one with 3 dice,,,sure there may be situations where I want to attack with 2 dice or maybe even 1 die...however.............he is the scenario......I have 10 troops, he has 15,,,, I wanna attack that territory untill i have 3 troops left.......if you do this with the slider,,,, the stupid autoroller (nonblitz) still attacks with 1 or 2 dice

if I have 5 troops on a territory, why the heck would i ever wanna attack with less than 3 dice???!?!!??!! why is this option even availible lol

if you have 5 troops on a territory, give me the sceanario where youd only wanna attack with 1 or 2 dice,,,, go ahead,,, i'm waiting.....

[astral ether]

ping

[glossy aspen]

When it’s a 5v1 and it’s your only chance at getting a card. I’m rolling until I have no troops left.

Sure you could blitz a 10v15 but why not just slow roll until you have 4 troops left then

And I’ll reiterate. There is no “auto roller”. When you attack it doesn’t actually roll dice. It just picks an outcome based on the odds

[astral ether]

I spoke too soon, yes, plenty of 5v1 scenarios to the death however......I only wanna play true random, and with on a little bit of hard work on @unkempt grove 's end...I would never have to make a singular roll again,,, although I still would sometimes,,,,, it's labourious for crying out loud!

[astral ether]

Sure you could blitz a 10v15 but why not just slow roll until you have 4 troops left then

this is precisely what I am trying to avoid,,,, just let me autoroll untill I only have 3 troops left,,,,, make it an option,, toggalable

let me set it to "stop attacking once only 2 men are left in the territory"

imagine if you wanted this functionallity and its 40v40,,,, not even 120sec timer can contain such boldness!

or maybe a button that says next 5 rolls blitz,,,,idk

[glossy aspen]

Sure they could do this. But I think it would involve a little more work than you think it would. It would involve adjusting and calculating new odds for every possible roll (and again all of the odds would be worse than using all of your troops).

The development team is quite small and it takes them years to fix bugs and add content. This just doesn’t seem like something that they should/would prioritize over fixing the major issues of the game. True random dice are barely used and of the players playing TR even fewer want this. Just my opinion I guess.

[astral ether]

no, don't you know how to program compurters?

when the dice a blinking for blitz,,,,, add two buttons on the side "blitz until 3 left" "blitz until 2 left"

blitz until """slider""" remaining

[astral ether]

you cannot not want this funcationallity,,, unless your boss is telling you to cook it from scratch lol

that's how I know youre not listening to me

no one would not not want this..................

[glossy aspen]

You clearly aren’t reading what I’m writing. I’ll say again there cannot possibly be “until 2 left” or “until 3 left” because it is not rolling dice.

And I personally would not use this because 1 I don’t play TR and 2 because I wouldn’t want to lower my odds of success, which is what this would do.

[astral ether]

youre talking balanced blitz,,,, i'm only talking TR

youre odds cannot be lowered if you only attack with 3

[astral ether]

lets talk about the slider..... I have 40 troops,,, I move the slider to only attack with 20...........

in this scenario:::why would I ever choose to attack with 2 dice instead of 3????????????????

[azure vale]

How often does the game attack with more than what you set? I normally dont play 100% random, but I tested it in 100% and set blitz to attack up to half of my troops, but it always leaves 4 troops behind, it never went beyond that.

I forgot to mention: i used 8 troops to attack

[astral ether]

yes, everything youve said is true

youre attacking with from a territory containing 8 troops,,,, you set the slider to ensure that when the battle is over you will have 4 troops left or defeat the country

let's say you loose,,, you have your 4 troops left as you indicated by way of the slider.....

the last of those rolls, the computer rolled 2 dice for you attacking then 1

so the million dollar question is,,,,,, if you have 4 troops in your territory youre attacking from,,,, why in the F would you ever roll 2 attacking dice in that specific sceanrio

if i'm gonna hold 5 troops back, imma roll 3 till the very end

(((bonus points,,,, yes i can have 4 troops left,,, atack with 3 and lose 2 troops,,,and this is fine,,, i just don't ever want to attack with 2 dice

in certain situations

[azure vale]

ah ok now i understand

[astral ether]

I think the easiest overall fix would be to have two buttons,,,, roll 3 blitz's in a row,,, roll 5 blitz's in a row

or just a little switch on the side of the dice screen "ensure I never attack with 2 or fewer dice"

and mind you, manually rolling is only annoying when it's 8v5,, but when it's 30v20,,, that's when it just takes to long to manually roll

... this scenario usually arises when it's like 20v20 and I just wanna wear down my enemies at my borders, but not necisarly take the territory

[azure vale]

and its especially bad if the turn timer is short or only few seconds are left

[astral ether]

exactly! they could change the funcationality of the clock too

like if you take a territory half your time is refunded idk

[edgy quest]

That was the intent when the slider was suggested however many years ago. That's not how it was implemented by smg. So you are just asking for the slider to work like it was originally suggested.

[astral ether]

oh cool, thx for getting back to me @SMG pls make the clock refund half the time if you take a territory, those end game moves can take extra time, thx!

[nocturne hazel]

The option to roll only one or two dice can be used strategically if you only want to advance one or two troops to the territory. It’s so rarely used, but I don’t think the option should be removed from the game, it keeps it truer to the original board game.