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The FAQ says that all games are available as real-time and turn-based, but whenever I create a new Gear and Piston game, I'm only given the option to create a real-time game. Am I missing something, or is this a real restriction. And if so, why?

Gear and Piston is horribly broken when playing with that time machine thing or in turn based. It won't get fixed anymore, so I guess to prevent more people from just getting stuck in the game they disabled the turn based option for this one.

No idea though, why they wouldnt explain that at either the game description page or the table configuration page

tabicat wrote:The FAQ says that all games are available as real-time and turn-based

Really? Where? I don't remember writing this in the FAQ, if it is written it need to be fixed. We have realtime and turn based on BGA, but some games are not available turn based for technical or gameplay reasons.

qwertasdfg wrote:Gear and Piston is horribly broken when playing with that time machine thing or in turn based.

If I remember well this game was developed before turn-based was available and the developer created an extra programming layer above the BGA framework that proved incompatible with the evolution to allow for turn-based. Fixing the game would need an extensive rewrite that the developer is not ready to undertake.

So the question was should we remove the game or just keep it with only realtime on? We have chosen the second option for now so that players willing to discover the game can still do it within its current limitations.

qwertasdfg wrote:No idea though, why they wouldnt explain that at either the game description page or the table configuration page

The bug reports are available for people interested in the current status of games. But maybe it would indeed be interesting to have some flag to display an explanation on the game page for some known limitations.