Restriction on Turn Based games

[CPM61]

I have been restricted to only eight turn based games. I couldn’t find the answer anywhere but I’m assuming that it is because I am not a premium member? Does anyone know?

[BarnardsStar]

What happens when you try to join a ninth table?

[CPM61]

It just tells me that I can’t go past eight tables, but then if I look at people that I’m playing with some of them have got over 50 tables, and as I said I’ve tried to find out why but I can only assume that it’s because I’m not premium

[lefalaf]

My guess is that it's an undocumented premium feature/limitation. I didn't immediately see anything in the FAQ and I tried to search the forums for it, but the forum search is pretty bad in that it filters out "common" words so trying to get reasonable results is sometimes impossible.

[Jellby]

I think it has to do with how many games you have played, not with premiumship.

[Cile]

I don't remember where I read it before, but my understanding is every game you complete without exceeding your timer increases the maximum number of games you can be in by 1.

[nik592]

There is definitely restrictions on how many tables you can join while you're new/haven't played many tables, but the OP has been a member since 2023 and has played 166 games in the last 60 days (and only one quit and one time penalty, which is pretty minimal). So I wouldn't expect their number of tables to be limited. This might be a case where you need to contact BGA support and ask them - it feels like a bug with your account to me.

[tbhp]

If there is a restriction for non premium members, it has to be a lot more than eight games.

This makes me wonder, how do things even work if such restrictions exist? I mean, if you subscribe to many tournaments and the number of games that start exceeds your restriction, what happens to those games? Do they just automatically get abandoned or what?

[Shivaware]

There is definitely restrictions on how many tables you can join while you're new/haven't played many tables, but the OP has been a member since 2023 and has played 166 games in the last 60 days (and only one quit and one time penalty, which is pretty minimal). So I wouldn't expect their number of tables to be limited. This might be a case where you need to contact BGA support and ask them - it feels like a bug with your account to me.

I did go through OPs game history, and it's possible that they have only completed 4 turn-based games, and all the rest were real-time. Looking through the forums, someone believed that new accounts started with a limit of 4 simultaneous turn-based games, and this number increased by 1 every time you completed a turn-based game. That would be consistent with your limit of 8 right now.