Bring back Turn Based "No Time Limit + Friends Only"

[OneRandomGeek]

Still waiting for a fix, or at least an answer from BGA as to why they WON'T fix it. I cancelled my premium membership, told them this is why. Seems like such a strange hill for BGA to die on...

[Meeplelowda]

I cancelled my premium membership, told them this is why.

I am not advocating that someone do this, but *if* you do, this is what you must do or else they will have no way to know why you cancelled.

[dralkyr]

Still waiting for this to be fixed. Yes, fixed; this is broken.

[nik592]

Just popping in to say this is still an issue for me, and something I would like to see reinstated.

Also will plug the bug that was raised - https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=78071. If anyone here hasn't voted for it, please do so, as that's another way to get visibility on this issue.

[T72on1]

Just popping in to say this is still an issue for me, and something I would like to see reinstated.

Also will plug the bug that was raised - https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=78071. If anyone here hasn't voted for it, please do so, as that's another way to get visibility on this issue.

269 upvotes for that report, plenty of activity in this topic. Zero response from BGA. Come on!

[lovejoypeace]

this change is awful for the disabled community and we should not be forced to play in training mode to get the no time limit option.

Please go back to making this a disabled/neurodivergent friendly space so people who want to play together that are friends don't have to deal with the system YELLING at us that we are different.

[Meeplelowda]

don't have to deal with the system YELLING at us that we are different.

You have control over whether the system "yells" at you. There are 13 customizable sounds, one of them being "Clock negative alarm" which you can set to "no sound" if you desire.

Click on your avatar in the upper right. Click on the rightmost tab (the one that looks like equalizer sliders). Click on "Preferences." Select the "Sound" tab.

[Cotj]

Again voicing that I miss this setting.
Being a professional and parent that sometimes can go a few days without hitting this site. It is nice to not have to worry when I almost entirely play against friends and family.

[Fletcheese]

Can someone explain succinctly why using training mode is not an acceptable alternative? Is it just the fact that ELO is missing or is there more to it?

[nik592]

Can someone explain succinctly why using training mode is not an acceptable alternative? Is it just the fact that ELO is missing or is there more to it?

That's it for me. I play about half my games with RL friends, and don't like the idea of missing out on ELO on all of those games. We now play with the 1 move per 2 days setting, but occasionally friends get caught up and don't get on the site for a few days, and are now racking up time penalties (yes, I'm aware that's not a karma penalty). So we're essentially still playing with no time limit, as none of us will boot the others, but just that anyone who has RL get in the way of getting on to BGA now gets time penalties.

There's also the confusingness of real-time training mode, where games die after 4 hours. Which could just be alleviated by removing the training mode in the real-time setting (why have training mode die after less than 40 days, when people can just kill it whenever they want anyway?).