Is there a way to chat with the table while waiting for players to accept the game?

[pookie_wocket]

Sometimes a game is about to start but one player seems to not be paying attention. You wait around for a minute until someone gives up and quits, and then the game is off. Is there a way to send a chat to the table, hopefully prompting the player to wake up and accept the game?

[Meeplelowda]

Sometimes a game is about to start but one player seems to not be paying attention. You wait around for a minute until someone gives up and quits, and then the game is off. Is there a way to send a chat to the table, hopefully prompting the player to wake up and accept the game?

If you manually create a table, under the heading "Players around this table now" there is a button labeled "Discuss" that lets you chat with the table. I occasionally try to use it to keep people around until the table fills, or to ask if they are ok with starting with fewer players than the current setting allows.

[JoysJoy]

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If you manually create a table, under the heading "Players around this table now" there is a button labeled "Discuss" that lets you chat with the table. I occasionally try to use it to keep people around until the table fills, or to ask if they are ok with starting with fewer players than the current setting allows.
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The OP is talking about after this, when the table admin clicks "start game". At that point, there is not a way at all to chat with the other players. I have also had many games fail at this point. Someone will not click "accept" for whatever reason and after a pause, the game start is cancelled.

I have many times opened another browser and sent a PM to the player(s) who have not agreed but get no response. No good to try to message someone who has stepped away, or who is off playing a turn-based game and does not realize they missed the start of the game.

This problem happens much more often in games you have to wait a bit to get enough players.

I agree it is frustrating, but I think it is partly due the fact there is no sound at all to tell the players they need to do something.