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If you want to change username, please create another account. BGA is a social website, you interact with many people. If player's usernames are changing constantly, this could be very confusing. Imagine you discover one morning a player XXXX that plays +100 games with you but you have no memories ...

Changing a name legally in the physical world is not a trivial matter (costing CA$137 and requiring several forms) . It should not be a trivial matter on-line either. Also, if you don't want people misgendering you, might I suggest adding your preferred gender to your profile? At the time I checked...

Actually change your name on the one site is usually easier than change your name offline. Only 1 database query is needed. The issue is that query should be written and executed manually by the site admin. So they don't want to have a lot of users requested it. But sometimes they help users. I ema...

Hey, I'd love if it were an option to change usernames. Even if it were just allowed once or you had to pay a $10 fee something. It's silly that I can change my name legally so it's no longer Holly but I'm forever Holly on BGA unless I want to lose all my game history, ratings I've left for other pl...

When you rejoin the table on mobile on turn based (should have been more specific, though I think it's the same on desktop) it does not tell you it's the last turn. You either need to check the small print whether someone has gotten 8/7, 9/8 etc or scroll through all the goals to find the emporer ca...

[fimg=] Takenoko really needs to warn you when it's you're last turn! I wish I had a dollar for every game I've lost or come in at a lower ranking because I didn't claim goals achieved by my last turn because I didn't realise it was the last turn. I would be rich. [/fimg]