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This was my first time playing battleship, and I really enjoyed it!

Likes

Team Tower's organization with the strategy thread and especially the spreadsheet were amazing! After we joined up with Dungeon I missed Tower's tickybox spreadsheet, so it would be nice if that were given to both teams by default

The two tags per square was good, as usually at least one of them would be something tolerable to create for

I absolutely loved that Tower had several other people in non-US time zones so that the chat didn't die when the Americans were at work or asleep. It was perhaps a bit quieter, but I really appreciated all my friends around the globe!

Minesweeper was a good mechanic for the third board, where the treasure squares otherwise don't matter anymore, even if I half wished to have gotten an all-new third mechanic

Suggestions

I'd like to have a mod doing approvals and shots in a non-US timezone. I think I got to saw shots going out perhaps twice during the game, and it was an amazing energy I really wanted to be a part of! ...except that shots started at 2am my time and ended just before I woke up. IDK how it ligned up for AUS/NZ timezone people, but it was kinda depressing for me as an European

Seconding the suggestion for there to be a cooldown period before joining up the teams. It was a nice idea, but Tower could've done with a celebration period and Dungeon a moping period, since I think we ran them over like an overzealous golden retriever and way overcommitted with the full board clear idea when some people had burned out and I think everyone was mentally checking out, since Battleship was in one sense over. I know I had trouble feeling like there was any urgency in making anything once Tower won, even when the mod started meandering over with the key.

I was originally going to suggest that there be treasure on the final board as well, with a mechanic along the lines of 1k of treasure being able to knock down a tag count by 1, but then we ended up blasting it in two days lol

The team balancing spreadsheet is an excellent idea! Unlike some people in the discord, I think time zone/region would be a useful information to have. Sure, some people are very early birds or night owls, but having people on at similar times to me was an integral part of what made Battleship so good to me. Having the team channel fall completely silent for the vast majority of my waking time would've sucked and I wouldn't have felt like a member of the team.