I think the slowness was what made some of the original game enjoyable. However, you make a few good points:

1. If you are playing a robot, a click should show what the robot did rather than make you wait through the bot's whole entire turn.

Agreed on that one. No need to watch them walk around. And especially no need for a countdown for the mechtrons...

2. When preparing for your own turn, it should just show the event as a line immediately rather than scrolling it. No need to wait for it. At the very least, let me click to immediately go to my turn.

I dunno, again I kinda like the drama of suspense.

3. The countdown of 4 seconds to my turn should be skipped if I hit the space bar.

6. It should be possible to opt out of an auction (up/down/left?). If all players opt out of an auction or only bots are left, just show the result rather than showing the auction.

Again, I'd vote for the look/feel of the original on that.

Otherwise, some good ideas there. See you on Irata!

-BC

I gotta chime in and vote for the status quo. It's part of the feel of the game that makes it fun.

I love the feel of a retro-game, let's not change it into another game.

Sorry if you think I'm a crotchety old fuddy duddy...

-BC