# Online battle with other players In real time !!!

**URL:** <https://forums.505go.com/t/online-battle-with-other-players-in-real-time/8988>\
**Category:** MPQ Suggestions and Feedback\
**Created:** [August 19, 2014, 2:55am UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/online-battle-with-other-players-in-real-time/8988 "2014-08-19T02:55:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/x505go/original/1X/b4ba35e5c3a2d4e8b33a15c0ffd8c646489f10f2.png) [@system](https://forums.505go.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/online-battle-with-other-players-in-real-time/8988/21 "2014-08-21T16:23:24Z")

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Implementing this would add very little to the game despite what people think. For one any sense of accomplishment is negated by the fact that the person going first is going to win about 80% of the time between two equally strong players because that’s how big the first move advantage is, so if you are actually trying to figure out who is better you’d have to either play an even number of matches with rotating starts until one person wins by two, which could take a stupid amount of time if the two players are equally strong, or you’d have to put some other arbitary tiebreaker that is likely to be unfair and just going to lead to the loser always complaining (for example, amount of damage done). The time of the matches themselves would be open to abuse for anyone who is losing via stalling tactics if you give any reasonable amount of time for strategy, and if you give people only 10 seconds per turn you might as well have AI play for both players. 10 seconds per turn would make it hard for a player to even select the target for Magnetic Field before the timer runs out. It probably doesn’t harm the game to have it, but it’s not going to be anywhere as useful as people think.

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**Author:** ![GothicKratos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/gothickratos/32/1163_2.png) [@GothicKratos](https://forums.505go.com/u/GothicKratos)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/online-battle-with-other-players-in-real-time/8988/22 "2014-08-21T16:26:08Z")

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> [@locked](#):
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> The thread cannot be derailed because real-time PvP in MPQ can never be implemented and most players know that by now.  
> And no, if you find such posts understandable, some (I am pretty sure most) people don’t since it really detracts from an otherwise maybe decent post. I honestly could not take the said post seriously because it screamed ‘I like to shorten words for no reason’ to me.

And the community wonders why the forum community is so small and niche. Tsk.

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**Author:** ![over\_clocked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@over\_clocked](https://forums.505go.com/u/over_clocked)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/online-battle-with-other-players-in-real-time/8988/23 "2014-08-21T16:35:24Z")

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Maybe it’s because these forums see at least 50 spam threads every day? Can’t be that, it must be that obnoxious elitist userbase spearheaded by locked. ![icon_e_biggrin.gif](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/x505go/original/2X/9/9da0ce06e62533a4e29efe560c9926ab2566ea47.gif)

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