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Is it possible to make new time option? with 2 minutes for move? It would be great for short games like Bubbles or gomoku, etc.
Sometimes it's really annoying when game is simple and someone is thinking 3 minutes on one move.
Maybe it could be more visible for players who don't want to play that fast game.

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More timing options are badly needed on this site. A faster timer would be nice, a setting where you could just put in your own turn time limit would be great, and seems so obvious that I can't believe it isn't available. Would also like options for other types of timekeeping, such as differential or banks.

Since some of the time limits do seem ridiculously long (from what I hear since I rarely play live), it certainly seems reasonable to make shorter options. At the same time, there are some games that could stand to have longer times. The few I have played live always have things like 20-30 seconds, not minutes, and that's pretty fast if you're trying to be social and chilled.

And being able to put in your own time limit seems like a nice idea, except I would be afraid that people would not have a realistic idea of how long turns should take. Hmm, that might be an interesting option for premium members...

That why I'm asking for 2 minutes option/+30sec for round... It will be great to have possibility to use it in short games... like gomoku or dices... what you want to think about here... And it's visible for others so everyone can choose to play or not...

Please to add something like that....

The times are customized depending on the game.

A general 2min/+30sec wouldn't work.

Custom time limit seems like a good idea. For new players though there should be a suggestion for the time limit (so they can chose slow/medium/fast without knowing what is realistic) and also a well-visible label if they decide to join someone else's table.

This might be some efford as with new shorter time limits - high-speed-gamers might be going to shift the automatically calculated time limits (short/medium/long) that exist now putting adequate limits for every game by hand is a lot of work.

Also some games have variable turn-duration. In seasons you might not only need a x-sec/min-gain per turn but in addition a x-sec-gain per action. Or a functionality that you can't expel an active player (meaning he made an action (not necessarily ending a turn) within the last x-sec or so).