Player let timer ran out on their first turn and game ended

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ambervictoria26
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Player let timer ran out on their first turn and game ended

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Someone please help me figure out what the heck happened on this game I feel like I'm going crazy or being gas lit. It was in the first couple turns I think they did their turn first and they
Chose the cards action. They let the whole entire 4 minute timer run out and I had messaged them a couple times because they weren't confirming or restarting their turn so I did ask if they could confirm so that I can take my turn. I got no response from them and so eventually the timer ran out and I clicked on the red button that will skip their turn for the out-of-time player. I don't exactly know what happened because it's never happened before but when I went to play my turn which was going to be a sponsors action I didn't even get to play my turn because it randomly ended for me and said that I abandoned the game. My timer had not run out I hadn't even got a chance to play my card I knew exactly what I was going to do and it said that I abandoned the game when all I did was try to skip their turn because they had more than enough time to confirm or restart their turn plus I had message them and they didn't do anything. So I lost the game I lost 10 elo points I got karma lost and I got a penalty for abandoning a game which I didn't abandon this is absolutely ridiculous. The player was Maberry but i'lf you look at their game history you can see this happening a lot where they're winning games with 1 to 0 points it's really odd and suspicious and I think this needs to be looked into. I don't know what's going on because it's never happened to me before but can somebody please tell me what just happened I will link the game number for reference. I would ask that if anybody wants to check out their game history particularly for Arc Nova if they can investigate this because it seems like they are exploiting the skip turn button or something unless it's a bug or a glitch I don't know but it seems like they are purposely exploiting it if you look at their game history it's happening a lot especially in this past week.

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Re: Player let timer ran out on their first turn and game ended

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ambervictoria26 wrote: 11 June 2025, 05:20 Someone please help me figure out what the heck happened on this game I feel like I'm going crazy or being gas lit. It was in the first couple turns I think they did their turn first and they
Chose the cards action. They let the whole entire 4 minute timer run out and I had messaged them a couple times because they weren't confirming or restarting their turn so I did ask if they could confirm so that I can take my turn. I got no response from them and so eventually the timer ran out and I clicked on the red button that will skip their turn for the out-of-time player. I don't exactly know what happened because it's never happened before but when I went to play my turn which was going to be a sponsors action I didn't even get to play my turn because it randomly ended for me and said that I abandoned the game. My timer had not run out I hadn't even got a chance to play my card I knew exactly what I was going to do and it said that I abandoned the game when all I did was try to skip their turn because they had more than enough time to confirm or restart their turn plus I had message them and they didn't do anything. So I lost the game I lost 10 elo points I got karma lost and I got a penalty for abandoning a game which I didn't abandon this is absolutely ridiculous. The player was Maberry but i'lf you look at their game history you can see this happening a lot where they're winning games with 1 to 0 points it's really odd and suspicious and I think this needs to be looked into. I don't know what's going on because it's never happened to me before but can somebody please tell me what just happened I will link the game number for reference. I would ask that if anybody wants to check out their game history particularly for Arc Nova if they can investigate this because it seems like they are exploiting the skip turn button or something unless it's a bug or a glitch I don't know but it seems like they are purposely exploiting it if you look at their game history it's happening a lot especially in this past week.

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This just sounds like an usual out-of-sync issue. You are thinking it's their turn while it's actually your turn. This has nothing to do with ArkNova and nothing to do with cheating. I hope bga will find a way to remove this issue soon but in the meantime, the usual workaround is to refresh your page if you see your opponent taking a lot of time
ambervictoria26
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Re: Player let timer ran out on their first turn and game ended

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Well it seems like it's an issue that's being exploited mainly because if you look at the other players history they've done it like I would say at least 10 times since the beginning of the month it's really weird and I don't know maybe they didn't do it on purpose but it seems like they potentially could be exploiting a bug I don't know but just look at their history and see what you think. To be fair some of the games they lost but most of the ones that they won 1 to 0 are ones that the game was abandoned. And I played this game a lot like a lot I think I've played over 200 times and this is never happened to me so the fact that another player has had this happen at least 15 times in the past 10 days is very very odd to me.
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Re: Player let timer ran out on their first turn and game ended

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ambervictoria26 wrote: 11 June 2025, 06:47 Well it seems like it's an issue that's being exploited mainly because if you look at the other players history they've done it like I would say at least 10 times since the beginning of the month it's really weird and I don't know maybe they didn't do it on purpose but it seems like they potentially could be exploiting a bug I don't know but just look at their history and see what you think.
I responded to you on Reddit and I am responding to you here as well.

I reviewed their game record and it does not appear that they are exploiting a bug. Most of their 1 - 0 games are, in fact, their opponent conceding to them well into the game, and not one that has been abandoned.

I see four abandoned games, not including yours, and two were to low-ELO opponents with abysmal karma (0% and 6%) and a third to a user whose account has been deleted. Those look like legitimate timeouts rather than a bug, but of course I can't prove that. The fourth looks like the bug as you describe, and the timeout was on turn 19.
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