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The message depends on when you start the game. In the past I've started a turn based game with friends, one of them has enjoyed it and plays a bunch of real time games and their ELO goes up but the "First time playing" message is still marked on that first game. I'm not sure if this can a...

tbhp wrote: ↑23 October 2026, 20:30 Well they've never helped nor have I ever paid attention to them.

Perhaps these two things are related

If you go to play now and select the cog next to a game you have the option of changing some of the settings. There's an advanced link that also let's you filter by player reputation or strength

if you've lost interest in the game you can just make nonsense moves when it's your turn. That would be better than quitting. Maybe for you a game going indefinitely with a player that has left the site or a game continuing with an opponent making random moves would be better but I'd rather the gam...

All your current turn based games are in friendly mode - there's no time limit and no time penalties but there's also no reputation hit for quitting so you can just leave Also turn based games get abandoned after 40 days of no activity - the longest running game you have should be abandoned in 4 days

All your current turn based games are in friendly mode - there's no time limit and no time penalties but there's also no reputation hit for quitting so you can just leave

And, really, I'd really appreciate it if somebody could show me where I went wrong. That would make me feel better too. I don't know how much this would impact it but there is a dice roll (I believe) at the start of the game to determine turn order which can't be a double so I assume that would bum...

And, really, I'd really appreciate it if somebody could show me where I went wrong. That would make me feel better too. I don't know how much this would impact it but there is a dice roll (I believe) at the start of the game to determine turn order which can't be a double so I assume that would bum...

Except we have zero evidence that it is exactly a 1/6 chance Again, If you have evidence that the PHP random_int function, or the randomness it is based on is producing output that is not fair I would urge you to contact the PHP Security team: https://www.php.net/contact.php as this would have an i...