Not sure if this is a bug or expected, but group-locked games behaving oddly
Posted: 01 November 2023, 18:50
I have set up two games where joiners are locked to the work group I'm in. And at first it behaves fine, I share the link to the game with work people and they start to join my game. But sometimes they take a while to join, maybe even a few days. That's fine, I have plenty of games on the go, it doesn't matter to me if a game takes a while to fill up because I can periodically remind folks in the group that this game still needs filling.
But twice now, before a game has had a chance to fill, after a couple of days of waiting, my game has started - but not with anyone who had previously joined but with random other people I don't know.
I don't know whether this is expected behaviour (I don't know, perhaps BGA assumes arranging a closed game is taking too long so just starts me on one with random folk) but it's very annoying as the reason I set up these games is to play with people I know, and I don't want to be penalised for a game that I never actually agreed to join.
Since this is the second time this has happened, I wouldn't mind some answers on if this is expected behaviour and if so, if this can be changed so that I never get pulled into games with random people when the one I started was explicitly for my group only.
(We'd also like it that if you make the game open to the group, you could see what games are currently enlisting on the group's page, because right now it's quite hard to invite the group!)
Thanks!
But twice now, before a game has had a chance to fill, after a couple of days of waiting, my game has started - but not with anyone who had previously joined but with random other people I don't know.
I don't know whether this is expected behaviour (I don't know, perhaps BGA assumes arranging a closed game is taking too long so just starts me on one with random folk) but it's very annoying as the reason I set up these games is to play with people I know, and I don't want to be penalised for a game that I never actually agreed to join.
Since this is the second time this has happened, I wouldn't mind some answers on if this is expected behaviour and if so, if this can be changed so that I never get pulled into games with random people when the one I started was explicitly for my group only.
(We'd also like it that if you make the game open to the group, you could see what games are currently enlisting on the group's page, because right now it's quite hard to invite the group!)
Thanks!