dicepro: hyper-ludo with doubling-cube ;-)))

diogenysos: sure, why not ? let's double everything .. . some of us even have dubya as a president ... but seriuosly, it would work fine with HyperLudo ...

dicepro: As to smaller ponds, the only thing against it is the fact that Fencer doesn't want to allow it in the CreatePond form. The site handles this situation very well: Small Pond
I tried a few of these small ponds that Kunoichi created while looking for ponds and they weren't all that fun to play - much more random factor than strategy, takes most of the fun out of it in my opinion.

As to shorter time limits, I think the smallest unit so far is the hour, it would take some coding to add minute timeouts. More than that, the script that checks what ponds should move to the next turn runs hourly.

pauloaguia: My opinion is that your opinion is premature...

I think once you played a few of these games that there would actually be more strategy involved, for one reason, since there are fewer turns, there wouldnt be as much chance to make up for any mistakes.

Maybe 5 persons would be too small or maybe not, but the option would be nice!

dicepro: I already made a proposal for a small Ludo board:

xxxooaxss
xxxohoxxs
xxxohoxxx
oooohoooo
oxxxxxxxo
ooooioooo
xxxoioxxx
txxoioxxx
ttxbooxxx

where:
x: nothing
o: empty square
h: Home black
i: Home white
s: Start Black
t: Start white
a: Arrival space Black
b: Arrival space white

This one should be quicker than normal ludo (the race length is shorther and players have just 3 men).