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In my personal ftf experience: Hanabi more toxic players than Gang than Crew.
Sad to hear, that it is possibly bad on BGA.

Is thread necromancy considered a dark art?

If that was implemented, then the player running out of time could avoid getting kicked the first time, then after that take forever to play their moves since they aren't under threat anymore, which would kinda defeat the purpose of the kick out function. If a player takes forever to complete turns...

It seems that Jellby thinks in 2p/ realtime while I play almost 99% multiplayer/turnbased where the issue is different. The current process gives every non-red player a loaded gun to wreck a game at any convenient moment. Most players will not use it due to fairplay and bc they like playing but the ...

FrankJones wrote: ↑23 February 2026, 18:59 When a player runs out of time, decide then and there whether to expel the player or continue playing

Sums up my position in a very clear way.

And I dont get the chess/queen analogy either.

You could just change your mindset. As long as a player is in the red, every other player has an available "end this as a tie" move. It is about cherrypicking. If a player is upset that someone is in the red: Fine. If a player doesnt care and continue playing: Fine. But changing the decis...

Recently a 4p-Terraforming Mars game ended when a player run out of time once, and another player - after playing a few more turns - conveniently decided to skip his turns and wreck the game when he was behind in current VP. A very obvious solution to this tricky behaviour would be, to allow the ski...

Especially if the distribution of the numbered chips seems endless, the nonverbal communication is helpful. I am as curious as you regarding the online gameplay.

I use manual matchmaking instead of automatic, and I cannot create that many tables as I am not premium (bc of the restricted payment methods BGA accepts, but this is a completely different subject)

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑25 May 2025, 19:07
.. when match making is set to Automatic... when you create a table.

I was afraid of that kind of answer, but still thank you