A main competitive gamemode in which you can win by line
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Wand4 messagesstarted May 29, 2026, 10:50 AM
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WandOP3 days agoAdvantages of this:
- Hugely increased importance of good decision making - high levelled players need to understand what goals their opponent has priority on and what lines they could threaten, and the exact same for themselves. Goals on diagonals and in the center become more valuable as they are on more lines. Goals on lines that could be powerful for either you or your opponent become more valuable. The best goals to go for are no longer always the fastest ones, and speed no longer dictates the winner of most games.
- More variety to games - if the value of goals changes every game, the order of goals that players go for changes. Some games you might want to do a slow goal early because it forces your opponent to do an even slower goal to block a line, or because it stops your opponent from being able to force you into an even slower goal. Draftout will get less interesting over time as people figure out the meta, and rng will have a greater affect on games, but more variety slows and limits this.
- More expression of playstyle - some players might prefer to completely rush a line, prep a bunch of goals on a line and then knock down the goals on it in quick succession, or do everything they can to block lines quickly and force a win by majority. None of these playstyles are necessarily wrong at all, and none give either player much of an advantage over the other, but they allow for people with different playstyles to play differently and enjoy the game in their way, rather than there being a correct order to do things that people can agree on. Also, having more playstyle options creates even more variety of games, as the same game will go differently depending on the player's playstyles.
- Hugely increased importance of good decision making - high levelled players need to understand what goals their opponent has priority on and what lines they could threaten, and the exact same for themselves. Goals on diagonals and in the center become more valuable as they are on more lines. Goals on lines that could be powerful for either you or your opponent become more valuable. The best goals to go for are no longer always the fastest ones, and speed no longer dictates the winner of most games.
- More variety to games - if the value of goals changes every game, the order of goals that players go for changes. Some games you might want to do a slow goal early because it forces your opponent to do an even slower goal to block a line, or because it stops your opponent from being able to force you into an even slower goal. Draftout will get less interesting over time as people figure out the meta, and rng will have a greater affect on games, but more variety slows and limits this.
- More expression of playstyle - some players might prefer to completely rush a line, prep a bunch of goals on a line and then knock down the goals on it in quick succession, or do everything they can to block lines quickly and force a win by majority. None of these playstyles are necessarily wrong at all, and none give either player much of an advantage over the other, but they allow for people with different playstyles to play differently and enjoy the game in their way, rather than there being a correct order to do things that people can agree on. Also, having more playstyle options creates even more variety of games, as the same game will go differently depending on the player's playstyles.
WandOP3 days ago(edited)
Tldr: I suggest adding a main gamemode where you can win by line as well as by majority.
Depending on it's popularity it could have its own elo/leaderboard, but that would be for the future. For now, just having a casual version of this would allow for more important decision making, more variety to games, and more possible equally good playstyles.
(Similar to https://discord.com/channels/1493030345048719483/1507529955284881568)
Depending on it's popularity it could have its own elo/leaderboard, but that would be for the future. For now, just having a casual version of this would allow for more important decision making, more variety to games, and more possible equally good playstyles.
(Similar to https://discord.com/channels/1493030345048719483/1507529955284881568)
r0hkx3 days ago(edited)
given the relatively small player base of draftout, i think its pretty unlikely that there will ever be a second "main competitive gamemode"
Zinlag3 days ago
If win by line is possible, then drafting order should be changed. 1 player fully controlling goals for diagonals isn't very good, maybe like 12211221..?