First-mover advantage?

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(08-01-2012 12:33 AM)oneadamleft Wrote:  Alex has had a couple of house purchasing offers fall through, and is still tied up looking. Really bad timing for a move, but his lease is up soon. He checks the forum more often than I do, though, so I'm sure he's read these requests.

There's a lot of under the hood work to be done getting Outwitters efficient enough to check stats on FTA. We tried a query on it, and processing all that data is proving more difficult than it was in the beta. We're as interested in that data as you are.

Just please be patient; he's getting hit with demands from like every point of contact we have with users.

Great, I hope this will be patched asap - I think there's definitely FTA.

That proved to be the case in Hero Academy and Summoner Wars, and they both just reduce the first player's action points.

In Hero Academy's case, reducing the first mover's AP from 5 down to 3 almost removed FTA, though the first mover still has a slight advantage despite giving up some information by going first:

Details here: http://www.robotentertainment.com/forum/...3-and-4-ap