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I don't know if this is the best place for this, but also a reminder button would be nice so we don't always have to wait out the timer for mistakes.  I don't always use a mic, but would love to be able to remind my partner or opponent to continue.  When the last person hits continure in a round, the avatar flashes; just let it flash anytime anyone hits continue (within reason) .It could be the equivilent of tapping a horn when sitting behind a parked car at a green light.  

Jul 18, 2012 -- 6:12PM, ooSitrioo wrote:

Actually incursion could probably get away with the time it had now if it would just display the cards better.  

Exactly.  I'd prefer if actions were made more efficient - so the game generally plays faster - than if they coded the game to be able to be drawn out longer.  I'd rather be casting Bribery in 15 seconds if the deck was sorted than be allowed 60 seconds to try to figure out what I'm looking at.

It depends on how long the chess clock would be, if implemented.

Even at 20 minutes, wouldn't it be terrible for your opponent to just drag out the last 14 minutes or so when he's lost?

If you go down to 15 minutes, now you run the risk of just simply running out of time and not getting to think things through.

The reason the "chess clock" works in MTGO is because those players are playing for actual stakes (packs, planeswalker points, tourney invites, etc.), so even if someone is out to grief you, waiting around is more or less worth it. In the world of Duels, all we're really playing for is leaderboard points.

I think a chess clock is overkill, although you can imagine an implementation along those lines that could work.  

The thing is, if you ask me, the first order solution of doubling or tripling the "short timer" on combat phase and card search/selection would go 90% of the way to making the game much more playable, and should be a dead simple fix.  That timer is SO short right now.  I've never counted it, I'm guessing it's 10 - 20 seconds, but it feels like about 5 seconds when you're struggling to find cards for Bribery, Nightmare Incursion, etc., or negotiating a complicated combat step.  They could easily double that time and it would make things much easier without feeling too long.

In a lot of ways, I like that solution the most, because I actually do like that the timers keep things moving from a gameplay perspective, aside from the grief prevention.  I don't have a huge amount of time to devote to a single match, so I prefer that they move along fairly briskly.  If I game has gone on to the point where we've got two dozen creatures lined up against each other, I'm probably past the point of caring all that much about how it ends and want to move on rather than spending 5 minutes contemplating my blocking strategy.  But there is a lot of middle ground where there are some subtle effects and calculations involved that don't require a huge amount of thought, but more than the tiny timer we have now.

Jul 18, 2012 -- 5:41AM, monk1410 wrote:

My only issue is the timer for bribery, it is not long enough to look through an entire deck and make a decision. On multiple occasions it has timed out and I get nothing

This.

I must've wasted 10 Bribery cards the last 2 days on this, it's extraordinarily frustrating.