[ Because the forum search here is horrible, I can't find out if we've already had a discussion about this. Both "first" and "player" are considered "too common" so I can't even try to look for posts that have the phrase "first player" in their titles, because it refuses to include either of those words in a search. Frustrating. ]
In some games, it matters a lot who the first player was, because when some player reaches some game-ending condition, every player will get their final turn. But it's often really hard to tell!
It seems to me that this has been left up to the designers of the individual games to come up with some way to indicate, and they each do it differently. Games often place an indicator somewhere on one of the player blocks on the top right, but it's often subtle and hard to pick apart from the various other icons there, unless you know for sure what to look for - which doesn't work well when you play a lot of different games. Some games seem not to give you an indicator at all, while some do it only when it is the final round, even though you may want to know in earlier rounds in order to plan ahead.
Is there some BGA-wide way to tell, in any game, what the turn order is? Other than clicking endlessly on the game log to find the start. If there is some more practical way of doing it, how?
And if there isn't, is there already a feature request asking to add this? We clearly cannot trust the coders of the individual games to do all do it well, which is understandable - they have a lot of other things to deal with, and this can seem minor to them. Also, if they mostly just test out that one game, they're probably familiar enough with their subtle indicator to not realize how hard it is for other people to figure it out.
In some games, it matters a lot who the first player was, because when some player reaches some game-ending condition, every player will get their final turn. But it's often really hard to tell!
It seems to me that this has been left up to the designers of the individual games to come up with some way to indicate, and they each do it differently. Games often place an indicator somewhere on one of the player blocks on the top right, but it's often subtle and hard to pick apart from the various other icons there, unless you know for sure what to look for - which doesn't work well when you play a lot of different games. Some games seem not to give you an indicator at all, while some do it only when it is the final round, even though you may want to know in earlier rounds in order to plan ahead.
Is there some BGA-wide way to tell, in any game, what the turn order is? Other than clicking endlessly on the game log to find the start. If there is some more practical way of doing it, how?
And if there isn't, is there already a feature request asking to add this? We clearly cannot trust the coders of the individual games to do all do it well, which is understandable - they have a lot of other things to deal with, and this can seem minor to them. Also, if they mostly just test out that one game, they're probably familiar enough with their subtle indicator to not realize how hard it is for other people to figure it out.
