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I have messed up a number of times in Anachrony in the following way: I use a faction's ability during the charge phase, and then press confirm actually forgetting this is also the moment to charge the suits. It would help stupid people like me to get a prompt if you haven't charged any suits and clicked to proceed.

I strongly agree with this request. I have seen multiple games where people somehow missed charging their suits. This even happened to me in one game and I am playing a game right now where on player missed charging their suits near the beginning.

Please, please, please require confirmation when not charging suits.

Yes, please. And also, why not place the free exosuits automatically? It's not like there is any reason to not use them...

One single misclick shouldn't literally just lose you the entire game. You are basically missing out on a whole round, if this happens. And it is an mistake that can definitely happen, you need click all sort of stuff during the preparation phase and can easily miss something in a hurry.

Well there may be a reason not to charge all the free ones. That being to get an extra water to start the round. In some edge cases this could be crucial.

Not that it had happened to me (yet), but this is for sure needed. It also messes with the others in a game as we have in a current arena one.

One Wolf wrote: ↑29 June 2023, 13:43 Well there may be a reason not to charge all the free ones. That being to get an extra water to start the round. In some edge cases this could be crucial.

That's true, of course. Exosuits shouldn't be powered up automatically.

The problem is that when we use a faction ability that coincides with the powering up suits phase, then we're asked if we want to pass, it's easy to think -- yeah, I'm done with that ability, so I pass. Then you get into the next phase with no suits to use. It's a rookie mistake, I'm sure, but a slightly better warning would make it easier to avoid.

Otherwise, this adaptation is excellent! I hope more people try this game and see how good it is.

This has happened to other players in 3 of my games, please fix this because it is a game killer. I would like to play this game more on here, but this type of UI issue is off putting for those players and it is hard to convince them to come back if they think it only takes one misclick to end their game. On round 1 maybe the players will agree to abandon the game and restart, but when this misunderstanding happens on a later round, it is just awful.

This happened again for a different player. It's happening for the player with the Power of Dominance faction when they have the Captain Wolfe leader ability. It triggers at the same phase as exosuit power up and the confirmation buttons are causing people to skip powering up exosuit.

tge_damen wrote: ↑12 June 2023, 19:35 I have messed up a number of times in Anachrony in the following way: I use a faction's ability during the charge phase, and then press confirm actually forgetting this is also the moment to charge the suits. It would help stupid people like me to get a prompt if you haven't charged any suits and clicked to proceed.

Yes. Happened to me too.

Very annoying and could be avoided by a simple "are you sure" prompt.

Great game, nice implementatin but it's missing key functionnalities that are present in most expert BGA games.

Can't agree more.

• There should be an undo action button if the action doesn't reveal any hidden information.
• There should be a confirmation prompt if you are to reveal hidden information. (construction tiles)
• There should be There should be confirmation (with timer maybe?) at the end of your action with a cancel last action and restart turn buttons.

We had the case many times we we plan a strategy, wait for other player to finish his turn and then select wrong resource or action and can't cancel what we just do. For expert games, it's a must have imho.

This undo/confirm could disabled when creating the game, in the options or for tournaments.

Anachrony is a great game but these missing features could be really frustrating. Fun is my first goal when playing here and a small mistake could entirely ruin your game in Anachrony.

Ghor²