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#2911: "No time limit game is not real no time limit"

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3. May 2015 10:34 • florck • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

N/A

3. May 2015 13:28 • florck • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

Détails de la réputation:

La réputation d'un joueur est une représentation de son attitude durant les 60 derniers jours (plus de détails):

Pénalités ces 60 derniers jours:

Il y a 47 jours, Libertalia #11738644
Il y a 47 jours, Seasons #11465479

5. May 2015 02:04 • Oso • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

BGA hasn't no time because some games can be "stopped" forever.

So, "Without time" is "lot of time" (you start with 20 days, it's a lot).

9. Jun 2016 23:02 • isabelcvasques • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

O tempo de jogo ao invés de estar em horas está como dias.
O jogador tem 460 dias para jogar.

mesa #21033934

12. Sep 2016 18:02 • fuzzycoatimundi • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

Similar situation, but no overtime penalty.

Caylus game #22299795
imgur.com/a/R4MqQ

Time-limit was 125 days; I last played a move in August 2016, so less than 60 days ago.

If games are automatically abandoned by BGA after a certain amount of time, that should be the maximum time-limit for a "No time limit" game. Alternately, games should not be abandoned by BGA until after the maximum time-limit for a "No time limit" game has passed.

1. Feb 2019 13:06 • Elfishski • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

This:

If games are automatically abandoned by BGA after a certain amount of time, that should be the maximum time-limit for a "No time limit" game. Alternately, games should not be abandoned by BGA until after the maximum time-limit for a "No time limit" game has passed.

When people are busy/on holiday taking a break from playing games and the game previously said "120 days remaining" and now days "no time limit", it's disappointing for a game to suddenly be automatically abandoned.

18. Nov 2020 18:36 • diamant • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

Offering to play without a time limit is dishonest when you create automations to stop running games under certain conditions, without the players having decided to leave it.

It is also stupid to link this cadence to the option deactivating the calculation of ELO points based on the results of the game, whereas this has nothing to do with it. Especially, when a game is in a test period, and the developer waits for the results of games to fix the bugs and get the approvals. I agree to test the games, but not to play games with slow players.

20. Dec 2020 09:17 • jmj78 • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

temps de reponse trop long j'ai été deconnecté..................lenteur du systeme surtout au Tarot.

15. Mar 2021 19:34 • Mokkomasteri • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

Same thing with chrome

3. Jun 2021 16:36 • bmcfluff • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

This is *terrible* UI: The game speed dropdown has two **identically-named** entries called "No time limit • recommended with friends only", but apparently one is 'realtime' and will shut your game down after 4hrs, while the other is *actually* no time limit (or much closer anyway - 40 days)?? Also if you switch the Game Mode to "Training mode", there is no longer any way to pick the game speed; the mode description says it's no time limit but apparently it's the fake 4hrs no time limit :(

3. Jun 2021 16:37 • bmcfluff • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

(Duplicate of boardgamearena.com/bug?id=21294 )

7. Jun 2021 20:20 • Ax109 • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

I played a few games with my friends, on 'No time limit', and as the table administrator pressed 'Play', it switched back to 'Normal time'.

22. Feb 2022 16:36 • gerretic • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

Seconding bmcfluff: please change the name in the dropdown so that real time with no time limit is not so easily mixed up with turn-based time limit, or perhaps remove the distinction entirely.

16. Mar 2022 23:46 • Willi B • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

None of my friends, nor I, have been able to start a game without a time limit for the last couple of weeks. Every time it is set to that (our preferred way of playing), it automatically switches to 1 play every 1 or 2 days with a red warning saying that no time limit is limited to friends only... this works whether I have invited anyone to the table or not and works in the same manner when I have only invited friends that are mutually friends (I -they, they - me).

We have a doctor that is slow playing and this is an issue... also, vacations mean people won't always be taking turns.

This is working on ALL GAMES for us, F5 did nothing, every time.

Here is an attempt today:
imgur.com/a/xctZOMx

30. Mar 2022 22:32 • Wuuuschel • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

Es gibt zwei mal die Möglichkeit "ohne Zeitlimit" zu spielen. Die untere Möglichkeit funktioniert nicht

3. Apr 2022 12:48 • Steve Zissou • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

En mode sans limite de temps les parties sont abandonnées automatiquement au bout de quelques heures (~4h) sans action.
Exemple hier sur Projet Gaia : boardgamearena.com/table?table=255598534

6. Apr 2022 00:33 • cigma • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

Willi B, this is not about INVITING only friends, but about RESTRICTING the table to friends only. At the right side of the text "Players at this table" you can see a small text "Restrict table access". Klick on this small text, then restrict the table to the group of your friends. After that, a game without time limit should be possible.

6. Apr 2022 12:32 • Willi B • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

After following advice like that offered by Cigma, my problem has resolved. I was not accustomed to using the restrict table access feature and ignored/didn't notice it. Now that there was a change in how to have unlimited time, it became necessary.

Thanks!

25. Oct 2022 09:57 • ctuncan • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

boardgamearena.com/table?table=311422222

Start a table as "No time limit - friends only"
Played 50% of the game, but it got late.
We were going to continue it another time, but the next morning the game had already been abandoned!

This is nowhere near the reported: "+30 days per turn (maximum 90 days)"

25. Feb 2023 21:44 • MikiSiku • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

Now, there is no option to play real time game with friends without a time limit in the new UI. Please add this option back.

7. Jun 2023 02:30 • nccc • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

@ctuncan REALTIME no time limit tables will auto close if noone moves after 4 hours.

1. Mar 2024 09:53 • DrClick • Bug has been fixed:

You can play infinite time with friends by clicking the infinite loop icon in the time slot selection.
Issue closed.

10. Apr 2025 21:10 • VikingKing • Bug has been fixed:

What happens then if you get involved in such a game, and someone decide not to play it finished, or dies?

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