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Since I get on turn just to respond to the abandonment proposal, without the other player having moved and hence without being able to move myself, indeed I cannot just ignore the proposal. I propose that BGA change the abandonment proposal so it can only be submitted together with making a move. Th...

That may be, but by that time he's already worn out our patience - at least mine. After three times of getting prompted to abandon when I've already chosen no, and after discussing the choices with the other players in the chat I have zero patience left to keep clicking No. And I'm a fairly patient ...

The game creator asks to abandon the game, since he didn't like something about it. We other players get prompted whether we want to abandon the game. We choose no. The creator keeps not moving, and choosing "abandon game", and we keep getting prompted to abandon. We've already made our ch...

Yes, that would be a perfect solution. Thanks for listening! And I want to be clear that I love the game already, but with this improvement it would be even more fantastic - and a lot more user-friendly.

Basically this boils down to the age-old discussion of whether only winning counts, or placing too. Some people prefer to play towards the slim chance of winning, while others will try to place as well as they reasonably can. Both are entirely valid approaches to gaming, and whether the resulting re...

The new modes have the potential to create more problems than they solve. E.g. if in a fast game someone takes on average 3 mins per move while others are taking just seconds, chances are high that he's taking a bit longer because it's just too stressful for him, and with the change now things becom...

The intro states "islands of the same color can NEVER touch one another, even diagonally". However it is crucial to know that islands are also not allowed to touch sandbanks (whereas sandbanks are allowed to touch each other diagonally). This is critically important because it means as soo...

Also note that since players would have to rotate the island first in order to see the rear (partially hidden) parts of the island, they are far more likely to add to the island in the front and at the sides, exacerbating the issue of the island being off the center of the screen. That's why I sugge...

I said in the initlal post already that the players should be ranked "via the obvious method, namely the same used to determine the winner if there was no early victory". In other words the "alternate ending", just as described in the game rules. There's just no reason this same ...