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I"m sympathetic. I play both live games and turn based games, and since I'm playing with folk I know and care about on discord live, I'm never finding any problems when something comes up and we gotta pop it into turn based mode. That seems like a real bummer if you are finding yourself in game...

Things to not do AI slop - financially funding and partnering games with generated assets instead of artists. I can imagine some scammer putting some game together without any real design at any level and then trying to partner with the site. You gotta be discerning on who you work with. AI gameplay...

I wish the original poster well. That's a valid opinion and take away to playing games with luck elements at a high level. I really appreciate the element of luck in forcing adaptability and to add an element of mystery to the equation. It's nice to play to find out what happens, despite everyone's ...

Guys, I think you really don't need to argue why you like games without time limit. Everyone including admins can understand that. The question is why you need Elo at the same time and there have been some good points made about that. But whenever I read here sth simple like "No time limit is ...

https://i.imgur.com/761brHD.png I wanted to highlight this comment from the previous thread that was closed. Even the smidge of removing penalties on friendly games would be a good compromise. Then folk could take as long as they want on ranked games regardless of the time limit, between consensual...

They've kinda broken ELO anyhow by pushing slow games into training mode.

Switching to training mode wouldn't be the same as it misses features like the ELO points, which are fun part of the games. It's also bad for their matchmaking if they pit someone who has 100+ turnbased games that would be considered unranked against someone who is playing for the first time. Bette...

Checking back on this, has there been any progress made on this issue for subscribers?

Like most people in this thread have already posted. This seems to be a very one sided decision. Based on the reply we have seen from BGA I believe this is solvable situation with just allowing the old no-time limit option to tables that are restricted for friends only . I believe there's very litt...

One problem with just playing as usual with 1 move every 2 days, is that people will get reputation penalties if they take a week as a break. If I'm playing with friends anyway, I don't mind them/ not going to rate them down, but this is bad deal on that side of things if there is a rep penalty for ...