I see that there are always a bunch of members logged in, but no outlet to play a game together that would last hours, not days.  Does anyone out there wish to play a game inside a day rather then inside a week?  If so, how?  Please forgive my ignorance, I am new to the Risk online arena and wonder if I can sit at my computer and play a game over hours instead of checking in every 15 minutes of my day to see if it is my turn.  Thanks for any imput, I do appreciate it.

A Cheerful Monkey Salute to you General Patton!

Soon there will be something that will flash a notation for when you have a turn but still not yet. It's hard to know. I am on the site 18/7 for the most part but a lot of that time is spent in the design tool and so, while I am here, I don't always take my turns right away.
Basically with the site being so new there isn't a ton of activity because there aren't that many maps to stay logged on for and that's why turns are so few are far between. It is getting to know people on the site and figuring out when they are around. Most of us all met on another (now abandoned) site and so we all now who the Day Players are and who is not around on the weekends and stuff.
Not today, but usually if you want a game, feel free to invite me. Seriously, I"m here all the time, I'm just not always playing but I do get sick of designing and check my turns. Just don't invite me to a 2 player game of Europe or a world map, I hate those!
New maps and more fun coming soon.......
And that's the Red bottom line 'cause RiskyBack said so!

hi Patton

I guess what you're referring to is a different timescale of game, say where the boot time is measured in minutes rather than days? We could certainly set something like that up, question for all should real time play (or whatever it end up being called) be ranked separately to regular play?

I'd leave it ranked the same way. It'll probably be your higher ranked players using the most, anyway. Give the listing a Red Highlight on the Join Boards list.

Umm... honestly, I think this would be too big a headache to implement. There are sites out there that do JUST this and do it pretty well. Not intending to advertise the competition here. But in my mind this is an either/or proposition. Too difficult to do both well on one site.

Why do you think it would be hard to implement asm? It would basically just be a question of adding a new very short boot time, i.e. 15 mins or thereabouts.

You'd have to find a way to distinguish these games from regular ones that was VERY obvious. Another queue or something.

I would love this option. I play the most on weekends and it would be nice to be able to do it in single chunks of time.

Thanks for all the imput, I appreciate it.

DeadByDawn wrote: I would love this option. I play the most on weekends and it would be nice to be able to do it in single chunks of time.

Same here.  I tend to be near my computer and responsive to e-mail most weekends and evenings, but am usually unavailable at other hours.  I think it would be a great option to be able to join a specialized queue in which all the other players in the queue tend to be available during the same hours, for example the "Mon-Fri 6pm-10pm Pacific Time" queue.  You'd tend to get faster turns inside the time window, and slower turns outside it.