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James Burton
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Questions about changing a real time game to a turn based game

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So yesterday I was playing a game of La Granja in Arena mode,

During my opponent's last turn of the game he got disconnected, I had no hurry so I decided to wait a for a few minutes.

After more than 10 minutes passed there were no signs of him returning, I clicked on the expel players out of time and saw the suggestion of changing the game to turn based. I wanted to see how the game would end so I turned it into a turn based game.

After the change, I check the timers for both players, plenty of time to finish the game, by the next day I would make the last play and finish the game, or so I thought.

That game had started yesterday, less than a day has passed since the change to turn based (about 18 hours I think) and yet when I log in I get the message that i had lost the game and that I should stay in the games until the end, what?

So I check the game and see that the other player expelled me, but how?, after changing to turn based I am sure I had enough time to log at around this hour and make the last play, I couldn't do it earlier because of sleep and work-

So what happened?

Did the other player change the game mode back to real time and expelled me? Can you change a turn based game to real time game by yourself without taking into consideration the other players?

Should I just ignore the option from now on and just kick the other player so I don't have to go through this bs again? I think I had a fair chance of winning that game, but I just wanted to see it played until the end.
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Jellby
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Re: Questions about changing a real time game to a turn based game

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Maybe you lost connection (or both), and while you thought the other player was doing nothing, he was actually expelling you?
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Re: Questions about changing a real time game to a turn based game

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James Burton wrote: 18 November 2022, 20:19Did the other player change the game mode back to real time and expelled me? Can you change a turn based game to real time game by yourself without taking into consideration the other players?
No and no. Jellby's hypothesis seems reasonable.
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James Burton
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Re: Questions about changing a real time game to a turn based game

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This is a link to the game:

https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=318642895

I was on youtube watching videos while waiting for him to return, so I did have connection, I also saw the browser change to the turn based mode game. If you see the link, it will say that was the game mode-

Also it says the game lasted for 2 hours and 30 minutes and looking at the replay, he returned about 20 minutes after I was gone.

So did my timer run out in around 1 hour and 30 minutes in a just started turn based game? Is that what happened? I'm pretty sure the time was longer
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Re: Questions about changing a real time game to a turn based game

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Move 353 :12:25:32 AM
Brunompr delivers a grape to a barrow
Brunompr has fully supplied a market barrow.
Move 354 :12:25:37 AM
Brunompr places a marker in the market and gets a trade commodity
Brunompr receives 3 vp ( 2vp market barrow value / 1vp booting marker )
Move 356 :1:57:48 AM
James Burton is out of time, so Brunompr skips his/her turn
Move 357 :1:57:48 AM
James Burton has quit the game and is going to lose this game whatever happens.
You seem to have a case. The table says it's a turn based game, and it's obvious from the log that you both played many moves at 12:25.
So how does it time out in 1:30 hours?
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Re: Questions about changing a real time game to a turn based game

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With 'display thinking time' it's even more clear somethings wrong:
Brunompr: -16:12
Move 352 :12:25:30 AM
Brunompr delivers a grain to a barrow
Move 353 :12:25:32 AM
Brunompr delivers a grape to a barrow
Brunompr has fully supplied a market barrow.
Brunompr: -16:13
Move 354 :12:25:37 AM
Brunompr places a marker in the market and gets a trade commodity
Brunompr receives 3 vp ( 2vp market barrow value / 1vp booting marker )
Brunompr: -16:17
Brunompr: -16:19
James Burton: 3:48
Move 356 :1:57:48 AM
James Burton is out of time, so Brunompr skips his/her turn
Move 357 :1:57:48 AM
James Burton has quit the game and is going to lose this game whatever happens.
James Burton: -1h28
Brunompr: -15:23
James Burton: -1h27
Move 358 :1:57:48 AM
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Re: Questions about changing a real time game to a turn based game

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No idea how you can see the log with so much detailed information.

Do you think maybe it was a bug on part of the website?
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RicardoRix
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Re: Questions about changing a real time game to a turn based game

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It seems very likely it's a bug. The feature to go from real-time to turn-based I'm guessing is not used that often.

In the replay log page, scroll to the bottom and check 'display thinking time'
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