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That's fine! @frankjones What you like isn't in opposition to what I'm asking for. I'm asking that people be allowed to set their own speed preferences. There's so little variation in the choices now that the only folks who seem to care are people whose connections are poor (who need slower games) a...

Can we please try a different approach altogether? Why not allow players to have more control over the speed requirements? Some players clearly enjoy taking enough time before throwing their cards to review every book played previously. But many of us consider that cheating. Yet we have no way to in...

This is a troubling thread.

I don't understand how giving each player three times the move options "simplifies" the game, such that it could be derided as a "children's option".
Anybody got a source for that condescending terminology?

AND fwiw, my child absolutely schools me in strategy games.

I imagine these folks trying to play football by setting up some creative offensive strategy, then becoming irate when a defender steals the ball.

See my post for this same thing regarding Carcassonne. I support this for all games.

Thanks @Robo65 . I meant 30 seconds in the bank, maximum, and maybe 5-10 seconds per move. I didn't do any math... but most turns I know exactly where I plan to place my tile and my Meeple before my opponent has gone. Often, I hit "confirm tile placement" the second their turn is over. On ...

YES to the thick outline.

Targeting a player because they are rated higher is both unsportsmanlike and foolish. With the Elo rating system (which is in place on this site), your rating change at the end of a game is only based on how you finish, it does not matter which players are ahead of or behind you. Surely targeting t...

Thanks for continuing to engage me, RobertBr. I am not suggesting you're wrong. Let me clarify that in the game in question, I apologized for the mis-step and stopped the behavior at once. And I have no intention to keep at it. And I will apologize again, as my inability to understand you, seems to ...