Finding the Time Joker button on iOS

[SquashEngineer]

Full Disclosure: I always play Turn-Based, and normally have 50-100 tables active simultaneously. It seems to generally work for me having a steady stream of action that I can drop into when I have a moment, and let them rest for a few hours when I do not. The throughput of action is reasonably steady.

All of my recent Time Out penalties have occurred because I suddenly get busy with life, and I cannot easily get back to my PC, and need to go hunting for the Time Joker button on my phone, which is very difficult to remember where it is, when I haven't needed it for months on end. It's frustrating because it does not seem to be in a logical, easy to find spot, and I invariably get a string of Time Out penalties over a few days distraction.

Can't the Time Joker button (on iOS) be placed more prominently somewhere against my profile?

I now see (again on iOS only) that it is buried as a small icon, on the "Games in Progress" page. But for the life of me, I will have forgotten that in 6 months time, and I will get timed out again.

BGA pet peeve.
Otherwise, love the site. (well ... maybe except for the marginally atrocious tutorial builder)

[nik592]

You're not the first to be unable to find it. Though rather than bringing it up in the forum, I'd raise a suggestion or find an existing one to vote for. Also, rather than "please move it somewhere", I'd be suggesting one or a few places that make sense to you. It's all very well to say "move it", but what happens if they do and you still feel it's somewhere unfindable?

Personally, I never use the time joker, but I remember it's in the top right corner of my games in progress page. Every time someone asks, I always seem to remember. So for me, where it is seems perfectly logical.

[Yuri Yoshisha]

Je ne comprends pa l'anglais mais je pense que je ne suis pas seul à chercher en vain " les Jokers Temporels" quand j'en ai besoin, avec l'avalanche de pénalité et la chute du Karma qui en résultent

[nik592]

Permettez-moi de vous présenter Google Translate. Je comprends un peu le français, mais pas suffisamment pour écrire ceci moi-même.

Quant aux jokers de temps, où pensez-vous qu'ils devraient être situés?

[BarnardsStar]

Personnellement, je préfère DeepL, mais que vous optiez pour l'application de traduction d'Apple, Google Translate ou DeepL, il vous suffit d'aller dans les réglages iOS, puis dans « Apps », puis dans « Apps par défaut » pour définir votre application de traduction préférée. Ainsi, lorsque vous sélectionnerez du texte, l'option « Traduire » du menu contextuel utilisera l'application que vous aurez choisie.

[nik592]

Yeah, any translation service will do. It's more that as I use Chrome, I pretty much use Google Translate by default.

[SquashEngineer]

Yeah, any translation service will do. It's more that as I use Chrome, I pretty much use Google Translate by default.

Really? Don't we have enough AI, Google-bots, 1's and 0's, Chat GPT LGBT, AOL, tic-tac's, & la-la-la's by now such that any website, any browser, automatically converts ANY text to MY preferred language? I mean, c'mon. That's gotta be a thing by now. We're flying back to the moon already - we must have figured out by now all the language translation and incorrect units conversions by now - 50 years? C'mon!!!!

[Jellby]

We're flying back to the moon already - we must have figured out by now all the language translation and incorrect units conversions by now - 50 years? C'mon!!!!

I think the "back" part proves that you don't need any of these to fly to the moon?

[SquashEngineer]

We're flying back to the moon already - we must have figured out by now all the language translation and incorrect units conversions by now - 50 years? C'mon!!!!

I think the "back" part proves that you don't need any of these to fly to the moon?

I think we did lose a few airplanes and rover landers due to poor units conversion. But surely by now I should be able to read forum comments in my preferred language without resorting to copy-paste?

[nik592]

There's probably an extension for it. For me, it's not a matter of copy-paste, it's highlight, right-click, translate, and I'd rather not have extensions if I can get by without, but YMMV.

My point was more that I have minimal patience for anyone who says I can't understand what's going on with something because I don't speak that language. Translators are imperfect (you'll lose some nuance against what a native speaker would say/understand), but for most purposes, you can understand what's going on. Sure, it's not a babelfish, but it's pretty easy.