Board Game Arena

hi, i am new to BGA and need help with playing hours. my time keeps running out on some turn based games. i do understand why it happens. i play with players in the US/canada/japan and i am in the UK. during the day here there are several hours where no one plays a move, but when i am asleep my time runs out. the easiest solution is to stop playing fast turned games, but is there away to only play fast turned games with ppl in your timezone?

Although you can't restrict by timezone, you could try looking for a public group where the members all agree to play turns with a certain time frame GMT/CET. Not sure how it would be named, but once you have it, you can restrict access to a game to members of the group.

A similar approach could be to try and find groups that are local to you - for example there are a few groups based on London, one out of Huddersfield... The players there will have similar schedules in theory.

Hope that helps, but I've not tried either approach as I stick to real-time games (partly to avoid this, and partly because I don't like how the turn based game feels odd in how it flows). Trying to publicise a group is a bit of a tricky thing, particularly if you're a new player and don't have the ability to do public messages

when playing a fast turn-based game (8 moves or more per day) you can set your playing hours...a 12 hour block where you won't be sleeping. This creates a 12 hour block where your clock doesn't run.

For 3 or 4 turns per day you can't do this, and I guess this is where the problem comes in.

I do find that most people play much faster than the required time so I often play just 1 or 2 turn per day games (but in reality the games will often have 10-20 moves made in a day)

You might also find it useful to add some friends in your timezone or thereabouts, and launch games with friends, either in real time or turn-based. If you complete your profile, you'll probably get more reciprocal adds.
Hope this helps.