5 Minute Idle Auto-Drop

by **Scott-Land** on Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:18 am

Sorry Lack- but that has to go.

It also drops you if you leave My Games page-- like going to Forums.

by **Cronus** on Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:27 am

clicking the mygames page every couple of minutes is going to kill you? I think it is to prevent easily distracted people ....ooohhh a shiny object....from joining and then remembering 15 minutes later that they joined a game and realized they have missed a few turns.

by **Ieviathan** on Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:58 am

No, Scott-Land is right. I frequently join a game and read an article without checking back for 4 or 5 minutes, because i know it takes time for the game to fill.

He is also right about it dropping you for random reasons like leaving to view the forums.

I say defiantly remove this feature, at least until the bugs are worked out.

by **Warsteiner** on Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:34 am

My game keeps on auto dropping regardless of what I do within like 10 seconds and only way the site works for me now is on IE >.>

by **johnnyrotten** on Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:45 am

Cronus wrote:clicking the mygames page every couple of minutes is going to kill you? I think it is to prevent easily distracted people ....ooohhh a shiny object....from joining and then remembering 15 minutes later that they joined a game and realized they have missed a few turns.

Sorry for wanting to not sit round doing f*ck all while a game fills up? Ass.

by **poo-maker** on Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:56 am

Scott-Land wrote:Sorry Lack- but that has to go.

It also drops you if you leave My Games page-- like going to Forums.

Can't you just open a new tab and not close the my game page? Anyways, i would expect people to check their awaiting speed games at least once every 5 minutes anyways so that they would be there when it started.

by **johnnyrotten** on Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:30 am

poo-maker wrote:
Scott-Land wrote:Sorry Lack- but that has to go.

It also drops you if you leave My Games page-- like going to Forums.

Can't you just open a new tab and not close the my game page? Anyways, i would expect people to check their awaiting speed games at least once every 5 minutes anyways so that they would be there when it started.

No, you can't. Even going on Live Chat makes you drop the game. Needs to be sorted.

by **poo-maker** on Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:13 am

Ok, now that i have tried to start and join 8 player speed games i realise how annoying this system is. Whenever i go to the forum, I leave the game i was in. Also, I am pretty sure that there are some other bugs with the 5 minute rule since i dropped the game I was in around 5 times in the space of 5 minutes...

What happened to the "you're responsible for the speed games you join" rule? I think it would work much better.