Board Game Arena

primrose1234 wrote: ↑19 February 2025, 20:15 Getting an error whenever I want to attach an image. Must be some forum issue.

Upload it to imgur and post the link, e.g.
https://imgur.com/a/nhHKvDF or
https://imgur.com/a/Kvpbm5D

Interesting screen shot. I have never been able to access the Arena information (i.e., how far each player has advanced in Arena leagues) during an ongoing game. At least I do not know how to access this information. Thus, I have no idea how you could produce this screenshot.

But it indeed looks worrying, could be a bug. If the button "Expel player" works, this would be a serious bug - it even affects an Arena game...

I am looking forward to other player's opinions.

Yeah, so I can't get to anything looking like that screen either. You can see Arena information on the table page (I go there by clicking the BGA logo from the game in question), but I don't have an expel link there, and neither can I see the player panels and how much time each player still has. Where exactly are you clicking to get to that screen? Is this just what you see when you open that game? Is it above the main board?

Click the top left symbol when you are in the browser version of a game.

primrose1234 wrote: ↑19 February 2025, 23:37 Click the top left symbol when you are in the browser version of a game.

That's the BGA logo - that takes you to table view as I said. But how do you still have player panels displayed at the same time? Here's what my view of a table page looks like:

Oh, sorry, I get it. I combined the two pictures into one to show that the timer is still good.

Any official here? Should I try to expel to prove the bug?

No, you shouldn't expel people using this because you probably shouldn't be allowed to. You should probably report this as a bug, but I'm not sure how you get eyes on it to get it looked at (because it probably should be looked at as a priority).

I do get a screen with the Expel player option when setting up a new table (had to do it with non-Arena), but only while the table was not yet full. Once the game has started, I don't have that "Expel player" option anymore.

No one in this thread is anyone official anyway - we're all just players like you. So we can't really do much about your problem, apart from confirm that it's a bug, and that the rest of us don't see it (I'm assuming anyway, since no one else has said they see it - curious to see if anyone can).

I tried joining four turn-based Arena tables (four different games). In two of them, somebody was already at the table as table host, and after the game started I could see the "Expel player" link in the table lobby as described by Primrose1234. For example: https://snipboard.io/TIYPF0.jpg In the other two, I was apparently the first player at the table so I was table host, and there was not any link to expel the other player.

I did click the link to expel the other player (I couldn't resist! sorry!) but the game did not end, it just threw up a red error banner as seen here: https://snipboard.io/WcrC9p.jpg

The text on the red banner says, "Unexpected error: This action is impossible with this table status (reference: VO 20/02 02:28:10)"

Mathew5000 wrote: ↑20 February 2025, 03:21 I did click the link to expel the other player (I couldn't resist! sorry!) but the game did not end, it just threw up a red error banner as seen here: https://snipboard.io/WcrC9p.jpg

The text on the red banner says, "Unexpected error: This action is impossible with this table status (reference: VO 20/02 02:28:10)"

Well, the good news is you can't actually use it for nefarious purposes.

I suppose having the expel link displayed at all is a bug, but given that it doesn't function I imagine it will be a low priority bug fix.