Disgraceful Ark Nova

[MasterMystery]

You're forgetting that the time bank exists and this is exactly what it is for. Ark Nova on Fast speed gives player 59 seconds per turn with a maximum time bank of 3 minutes. If someone boots a player at -10 seconds they are not kicking a player that is 10 seconds over their time, they are kicking a player that is 2 minutes and 10 seconds over their time because they have used up their time bank. Hey look, the extra 2 minutes you were looking for!

If you think players deserve an extra 2 minutes before being booted why not just add that to the time bank and make it 5 minutes? Well playing on Normal speed instead of Fast gives 4 minutes of time bank, and slow speed gives 6 minutes and 30 seconds. Play on the speed that gives the amount of time bank you feel is appropriate before someone gets kicked and it will be impossible for someone at your table to kick before that.

best answer.

Anyhow if you are feeling you will go overtime once send a message, people are still people if you ask/notice them nicely it probably will work. If you realize you cannot keep up with the time limits of the game, you can ask for turn-based but expect to be kicked or quite with dignity.
(ICE everyone probably will move to turn based)

[kaduzy]

It's not even possible to kick someone out after 10 seconds. You have to wait 20 seconds to expel someone who is over time. That means the minimum amount of time you were over was 21 seconds.

You also didn't mention whether it was the first time you'd gone over time or the fifth or what.

You also didn't mention how long on average your turns were taking. If you were over time because of a one-time complex move, that's one thing. But if you were consistently taking long turns -- and *especially* if you were consistently starting every turn over and over and over again, which is my personal pet peeve -- then it's understandable that the other player(s) might have been frustrated enough with you to kick you out.

[kaduzy]

That's a good point about animations - it helps. And I agree about communication. Someone going over time more than once with no communication is taking a major risk, and likely being inconsiderate.

Excellent point and another thing you left out in your zeal to libel and defame and insult others for following the same rules you decided to break.

[2288sam]

All that matters is ELO. All hail the ELO gods. Kick kick kick

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