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5 Minute Idle Auto-Drop

Posted:
Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:18 am
by Scott-Land
Sorry Lack- but that has to go.
It also drops you if you leave My Games page-- like going to Forums.
Re: 5 Minute Idle Auto-Drop

Posted:
Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:27 am
by Cronus
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.
Re: 5 Minute Idle Auto-Drop

Posted:
Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:58 am
by Ieviathan
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.
Re: 5 Minute Idle Auto-Drop

Posted:
Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:34 am
by Warsteiner
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 >.>
Re: 5 Minute Idle Auto-Drop

Posted:
Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:45 am
by johnnyrotten
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.
Re: 5 Minute Idle Auto-Drop

Posted:
Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:56 am
by poo-maker
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.
Re: 5 Minute Idle Auto-Drop

Posted:
Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:30 am
by johnnyrotten
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.
Re: 5 Minute Idle Auto-Drop

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Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:13 am
by poo-maker
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.
Re: 5 Minute Idle Auto-Drop

Posted:
Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:21 pm
by lackattack
There was a bug, it's fixed now!