Is it possible to keep quitting players in?

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Oami
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Is it possible to keep quitting players in?

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In BGA any one player quitting a game causes the entire game to void all scores and changes to rankings, including for the players who wanted to remain. This is frustrating but often inevitable, in many games it is mathematically either impossible or at least silly to keep playing if the number of players changes during the game.

Poker however is not a game like that, so could it be technically possible to allow the game to continue normally even if some players quit it? They could still automatically pay their blinds and otherwise fold. It could keep going like this until they run out of money, without hurting the playing experience of other players. And if they don't run out of money and later want to rejoin the table, let them; no harm would be done.
Gregnr
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Re: Is it possible to keep quitting players in?

Post by Gregnr »

I think this is an excellent suggestion. It shouldn't be that difficult to implement and it would eliminate the frustration have being in a game for an hour-plus and having it made meaningless.
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dominicwa
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Yes can someone PLEASE fix this 🙏 It's incredibly frustrating and connection drops / disconnects seem to be happening more and more often.

Other implementations of Texas seem to handle table joins & leaves fluidly just like Oami describes (e.g. Pokerrr 2 on mobile).
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dominicwa
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Just happened again wasting about 20 minutes of 5 others players. I value my time too much for anymore of this... I'm out until it's fixed.
stillframe
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Not a bad idea.

People quitting is particularly egregious at poker. They could easily eliminate themselves by going all in once or twice, and not disrupt the game for others.
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ErikLevin
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Re: Is it possible to keep quitting players in?

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As far as I understand, it is not possible.

Vote for this: https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=121841

When that is implemented, raise an issue for the specific game.

Meanwhile, you can as a workaround:
- Set karma limits
- Red-thumb quitters
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BarnardsStar
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Re: Is it possible to keep quitting players in?

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It should be possible. In Heat (for about a year now) and Formula D (for the last four weeks or so), quitters no longer end and ruin the game for the remainers. It should be possible to bring that to poker.
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BarnardsStar wrote: 09 March 2026, 04:32 It should be possible. In Heat (for about a year now) and Formula D (for the last four weeks or so), quitters no longer end and ruin the game for the remainers. It should be possible to bring that to poker.
I see in the Bugs section that Heat seems to have been given a "Give Up" option. If I'm understanding correctly, this is an action implemented in the game, like, a regular button you can click. Yes, a Give Up option like that could be done for this game.

But if someone clicks the top right menu and chooses "Quit this game" and takes the Karma penalty, does it still work in Heat and Formula D?
Or, when someone times out and is "skipped"?
My understanding is that there is nothing developers can do about those cases. But if this has changed, I'm happy to be wrong about it!
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Re: Is it possible to keep quitting players in?

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ErikLevin wrote: 10 March 2026, 01:16 But if someone clicks the top right menu and chooses "Quit this game" and takes the Karma penalty, does it still work in Heat and Formula D?
Or, when someone times out and is "skipped"?
My understanding is that there is nothing developers can do about those cases. But if this has changed, I'm happy to be wrong about it!
I haven’t played Heat, but I do enjoy Formula D and the announcement that was made to the players’ group was “When a player quits or is kicked, it now eliminates them without neutralising the race for other players!” I understood it to be something that Heat had had for a while, but a) as I already said I’m not familiar with Heat and b) I haven’t seen anybody quit or get kicked in Formula D, so I’m not 100% sure…
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Re: Is it possible to keep quitting players in?

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This should be implemented for all relevant games. Yahtzee and Machiavelli have the same problem.

And in tournaments it's especially egregious because I've heard that if a person quits or is kicked, then it determines winners based on length of time of your BGA membership, which is ridiculous. So in a 4 person game where 2 people will move on, if I'm a remaining player I will usually be the newest to BGA and would get penalized even if at that point I'm way ahead in the game.

That should be changed too!
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