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This may be a silly question, but how would that handle the situation of someone simply refusing to play (or getting sick and not logging on)? I assume letting someone hold a tournament hostage if they decided not to play would be very bad. You time them out, and the game goes on. But not all multi...

Agreed.

Ideally, with the advent of online implementations of multiplayer thematic strategy games, game designers would include rules mechanisms for dealing with such situations.

Or rather, no solution when N = number of players in a game and N > 2. I would set up and/or play a tournament in which all games are 2-player, and the number of entrants is a power of 2. 32 players, 5 rounds, one winner, no issues with people quitting or timing out; it would just be a loss and an a...

It is very bad (and I mentioned above this has very much been an issue before), so I'm also curious about the answer to your not silly question. Agreed; definitely not a silly question. I would take the obvious solution of having a turn timer just like a standard turn-based game. But what happens w...

This may be a silly question, but how would that handle the situation of someone simply refusing to play (or getting sick and not logging on)? I assume letting someone hold a tournament hostage if they decided not to play would be very bad. It is very bad (and I mentioned above this has very much b...

I have also played with peaceful mode. What do you mean "dealbreaker"? Are you saying nobody joins the table? I thought you were saying that you're not even able to get the table created in the first place. it opens and after a while it closes while saying i should check some options. Som...

I have also played with peaceful mode. What do you mean "dealbreaker"?

Are you saying nobody joins the table? I thought you were saying that you're not even able to get the table created in the first place.

For anyone interested in this unusual variant: We just played one, and it worked reasonably well. Best done in friendly mode so either player can request a mulligan if the draft results in 2 animal action cards, or 1 animal action card and 2 of another type of cation card, because it wouldn't really...

I have no idea why this would happen. I've used various combinations of settings without issue. Primarily, Competitive level "Same map for all players" peaceful mode "disabled" map pack 1 "disabled" (we have a choice here. Which is annoying. ) Map pack 2 "Enabled&q...

You seem to be talking about 2 players tournaments. Those tournaments have no issue on BGA (at least not the specific ones brought up in this thread). The issue is "what to do when a game is multiplayer and it seems like the game will never end because someone stopped playing". Your examp...