Not enough real time games ?

[50HzGamingTv]

Hello. Recently I started discovering more games on BGA and I have quite a few that I like. My big problem is that no 1 is playing them in real time and I absolutely dislike "turn based". I am not saying turn based is bad , but for me it is. When I have spare time , I like to play a board game , now , not 1 move every so many hours ... It takes away the board game feeling for me.

As an example I want to use the game called "Nidavellir". I realy like this game and at this moment the site tells me there are 461 games in progress.. Sounds like it will go fast to find a game ! When I click on the "play now" button , the site started searching , and searching , and searching ... No games found.... I check the list of tables and there is 1 "real time" table and a neverending list of "turn based" tables. So 99 % of people have fun playing a game that should take +- 20 mins over a timespan of days ? When u meet with friends to play board games , u also got some hours spare to do so right ? Or do u meet up , play 1 move and meet again after a day do do the next move ? I just dont understand why I see people playing at MANY "turn based" tables instead of just playing a game and enjoying the moment ? Am I forced to play Carcassonne and 7 wonders over and over if I want to play real time ?

I'd like to hear some other opinions , also from people who play "turned based" only. I understand people who play 5/5 difficulty games that take long time to play and chose to go with "turn based". But why go "turn based" for 10-20 min games ?

[Bubamara5]

I play only turn based game.

For fast game, I can play simultaneus game, I go to next table when other player play. Log are efficient, I have quickly remenber of the information I need to play my move.

With several game on going I can fully played and not pass my time to wait (game start or player) when I available to play and stop when I want without consequence.

However, I'm connected every days, arround 10 times a days and launch new game only when I finished all my ongoing move, active fast game have been finished generaly on one or two days.

The few time I have time to play realtime, I prefer to play long and diffilcult game, before is easier to be focus on all points playing realtime than turn based one.

[T72on1]

I mainly play turn based, although I agree with you that real time is actually more fun. But turn based is more practical, as you can play whenever suits you. And indeed, there less real time games going on.

I am sorry to hear you have a hard time finding players for your real time games. Remember that you can search for several different real time games at once. That vastly increases your chance to find a game.

[Jellby]

I check the list of tables and there is 1 "real time" table and a neverending list of "turn based" tables. So 99 % of people have fun playing a game that should take +- 20 mins over a timespan of days ?

No. Or not necessarily. A real-time game will be on the list only for 20 minutes (while it lasts), a turn-based game will stay in the list for weeks (until it finishes). Some of the games in the list will not even finish, are they are automatically cancelled after an extended time of inactivity. So yes, there are probably few people playing real-time, but the (maybe even fewer) people playing turn-based just have a much higher visibility, simply due to the fact that the games last much longer.

I'd like to hear some other opinions , also from people who play "turned based" only. I understand people who play 5/5 difficulty games that take long time to play and chose to go with "turn based". But why go "turn based" for 10-20 min games ?

I occasionally play turn-based, but mostly real-time. Besides the obvious benefits of turn-based (play at different times, split/spread your turns in different "sessions", etc.), there's also the technical benefit that you can play many turn-based games at the same time, and that it may be easier to find opponents some times (at least you can leave the table open overnight and hope someone joins, instead of staring at the screen for 20 minutes and have no-one show up).

[Ad-Elie]

Some games are just hardly playable in a go, like Through the Ages with more than 2 players. Some games don't let you enough time to think your move, like race for the galaxy, fleet or love letter.
And then you realize it's fun to play slowly and start a bunch of turn-by-turn tables

[Meeplelowda]

Some games don't let you enough time to think your move, like race for the galaxy, fleet or love letter.

Unless you're playing Arena, this is user configurable.

I understand the appeal of turn-based games for time management, but for me they lack the "flow" of real time. "Oh wow, what a move! Let's see how they react.....some....time....tomorrow."

[shrouded figure]

I'd like to hear some other opinions , also from people who play "turned based" only. I understand people who play 5/5 difficulty games that take long time to play and chose to go with "turn based". But why go "turn based" for 10-20 min games ?

Reasons I play turn-based: still learning the game, ease of joining table (for example 7 wonders and duels real time tables appear and disappear too fast), don't want to take the risk that I may be interrupted and have to step away (especially for longer games like terra mystica) or I'm just plain bad at the game (in games like P.I. I don't want to annoy people by taking 1min whenever it's my turn while the others are moving instantly).

I would play real time for games that have a lot of back and forth eg carcassonne or chess

[King Hrothbeort]

Yes I have played physical games "turn-based" had the game set up for over a month and took turns when we had time.
Most of the time though, I play "real-time". But I often find that the "real-time" setting on BGA is not slow enough for me and my friends so we set the game up with no time limit, or switch it over to turn based once it has started, though most of the time we're playing our moves well within the time limit, when someone needs a break or the like we can wait the extra couple of minutes without anyone getting a penalty.

[BoardNoremac]

Yes I have played physical games "turn-based" had the game set up for over a month and took turns when we had time.
Most of the time though, I play "real-time". But I often find that the "real-time" setting on BGA is not slow enough for me and my friends so we set the game up with no time limit, or switch it over to turn based once it has started, though most of the time we're playing our moves well within the time limit, when someone needs a break or the like we can wait the extra couple of minutes without anyone getting a penalty.

Yup I pretty much do this every time I play a game with friends. Turn based is just a nicer option in general if you know everyone at the table.

[Maeves]

I think this came with the automatic game. Most people don't change the configuration.
How it's liked. Some's game that would be more fun with 3 or 4, 5 players are launch with two players in automatically.
And why I liked this question to your asking, is that some game that I would love to play, before had player, but now because people choose some game to play, and the game which need only 2 players and are more know, begin before the less know game/ which need more player.

So it's always the same game are plays, even if there is other player which would like to play at this game exist, just because the other table was fill with 2 player before. So in the end, I finished playing the game in turn based, just to be able to play the game I love. (before, I played a lot at quantum. From the time the automatic game begin, I was never able to play it in real time.).

So for me, turn based is really a way to play some game I love that hasn't player.