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Multiple Lobbies/Venues Idea

Posted: 21 March 2020, 08:01
by wayland
Here's an idea: try having multiple lobbies, but call the main one the lobby, and the rest "venues". This should allow you to split the load better.

For example, I'm part of a board gaming group in Geelong, and it'd be nice if, on my usual board gaming night, I could go to a "GUF Geelong" venue (that's the name of the business where I usually play board games), and see people and tables in the same venue. I could chat to people at my table, but could also go to the venue lobby and chat to people at any table.

If you allowed the venue hosts to also charge entrance, and you kept some of the entrance fee for yourselves, and gave some to them, that might encourage various local gaming venues around the world to start moving their business here for the duration of CoViD-19. This would also be an additional source of revenue for you.

I can elaborate further if that's useful.

I also bought a Premium membership today (though that's also partly due to my financial situation improving in recent months).

Hope this helps!

Re: BGA heartbeat: what's up doc?

Posted: 22 March 2020, 04:46
by Afrothunder66
You are amazing! Thanks for all you do. I love playing the games on BGA, and appreciate all your work. Stay safe!

Re: BGA heartbeat: what's up doc?

Posted: 22 March 2020, 05:30
by vliam
You guys have done such an amazing job! Thanks so much for all that you do!!!

Re: BGA heartbeat: what's up doc?

Posted: 22 March 2020, 07:05
by ted11
Amazing website, had not played in a couple years but came back, got premium membership, and convinced 4 other workmates to do the same to pass the lockdown time.

Agree with some other comments the way to help is buy or extend premium memberships so they can expand server capacity in this high demand period.

Thanks again

Ted

Re: BGA heartbeat: what's up doc?

Posted: 22 March 2020, 13:13
by TheDarkshine
Thank you, guys ;)

Re: BGA heartbeat: what's up doc?

Posted: 22 March 2020, 15:56
by hasi6562
Ich möchte ja nicht rumnörgeln, aber momentan sind wirklich zuviele Spieler auf GBA. Entweder es ist immer die Verbindung zum Server getrennt oder es zeigt gar nichts an und man bekommt eine Zeitstrafe bei shusi go, oder heute morgen haben wir 2 Spiele bei Shusi go im beiderseitigen Einverständnis aufgelöst, damit keiner eine Zeitstrafe erhält. Es war auch normaler Modus eingestellt und es kam auch noch die Meldung das ich gewonnen habe aber danach ging gar nichts mehr. Ich verstehe euer Problem vollkommen, aber so macht auch spielen keinen Spaß mehr. Vielen Dank für Ihr Verständnis.

Gruß

:(

Re: BGA heartbeat: what's up doc?

Posted: 22 March 2020, 17:08
by hasi6562
leider hilft es auch nicht mit dem normalen modus leute zu suchen, es kommt immer wieder server timeout und man muss nach jedem Zug die F5 drücken ansonsten zählt es die Zeit runter, aber sonst passiert nichts. Zumindest bei mir nicht. Wollte Ihnen auch nur meine Erfahrungen mit dem normalen Suchmodus mitteilen.

Danke im vorraus.

Re: BGA heartbeat: what's up doc?

Posted: 23 March 2020, 06:13
by badbeard
Well there has been no better time to renew my membership.

Re: BGA heartbeat: what's up doc?

Posted: 23 March 2020, 10:09
by Ursusmajor
You're the best! Thank you for your work!

Re: BGA heartbeat: what's up doc?

Posted: 24 March 2020, 06:29
by Andrew281281
Thanks a lot for your hard work to keep us playing our favourite games!