Solo mode preventing me playing turn based games?

[TomFCG]

I recently purchased a premium subscription so I could play Ark Nova solo. However even though I started the game in Friendly mode (and it's solo!), it is now telling me when I try to join any other turn-based game that I am overtime in a game and now I can't join any other games. Is there any way to play the game solo with unlimited time (or at least 1 move per day)? Am I now going to have to abandon this game in order to once again enable joining other games?

[nik592]

That seems like a bug of some sort. I'd say it's not that game you're over time in, but I looked at your other games, and you're not over time in any of those either. I can't recall if the alert that tells you have to go play on the table where you're late tells you which table it is, but I think it doesn't. If you take a turn on your Ark Nova game, does it help? Usually if you are over time, you just have to take a turn, and then you won't be any longer (depending on how over time you are and the speed of the table), but then that's also because in a multiplayer game, after you take a turn, it's not usually your turn again straight away, which obviously isn't the case in solo play.

You could report it as a bug, but bugs often take some time to be fixed, so it may be that yes, you have to abandon that game and join whatever other games. I'd even try abandoning and restarting another solo game and see if that fixes the problem, cause as I say, I don't think that should be happening (because your game has no time limit, so you can't be late to play).

[ufm]

(because your game has no time limit, so you can't be late to play).

Actually there is an internal time limit for solo games. It is simply hidden from the screen.

The friendly mode time limit is 90 days.
However, this game somehow ran out of time after a few days and this is the bug.

[nik592]

(because your game has no time limit, so you can't be late to play).

Actually there is an internal time limit for solo games. It is simply hidden from the screen.

I actually meant there's no time limit because it's a friendly game. Does that mean multiplayer friendly games also have a time limit (I know they time out after a time, but I assume that is controlled by a different mechanism, since this game didn't time out)?

The friendly mode time limit is 90 days.
However, this game somehow ran out of time after a few days and this is the bug.

Do you know what the purpose of this time limit is? I can't see what benefit it would serve, apart from annoying a player as it appears to have done here. If the idea is to not keep games open and running forever, isn't that what the idle timeout (4hr for real-time, 30-40 days for turn-based or something) is for?

[ufm]

I actually meant there's no time limit because it's a friendly game. Does that mean multiplayer friendly games also have a time limit (I know they time out after a time, but I assume that is controlled by a different mechanism, since this game didn't time out)?

Yes. All friendly games have an internal time limit.

Do you know what the purpose of this time limit is? I can't see what benefit it would serve, apart from annoying a player as it appears to have done here. If the idea is to not keep games open and running forever, isn't that what the idle timeout (4hr for real-time, 30-40 days for turn-based or something) is for?

I have no idea.

[Hervor]

I am probably to late for you, but If anyone has the same problem: switching your solo real time game to turn based should solve the issue.

[nik592]

I am probably to late for you, but If anyone has the same problem: switching your solo real time game to turn based should solve the issue.

No, I'm pretty sure it was already a turn-based game - the original comment mentions they couldn't join any additional turn-based games (which is what happens when you're late to play on a table).

[Hervor]

I had this problem before with a real time solo game of Sagani. OPs post is a bit ambiguous on that matter.