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In my eight games of Gaia Project so far, 6 (!) of 8 (mostly turn-based) games did not get finished due to players leaving the table or exceeding the time limit in such a dramatic fashion that someone else (understandably) kicked them. I never experienced this issue (to this degree) with other games on BGA.

For context: I like to play in fast turn-based mode. I know that many prefer a slower pace - however, I ask myself why one should enter a table if one doesn‘t intend to (at least roughly) stick to the time limit. Even worse,many players don‘t show any interest in finishing the game as they quit playing altogether. I‘m actually pretty patient and still it often was impossible to finish a game…

Sorry, just needed to vent a bit and hope some of you can relate. Maybe there are some Gaia fans out there who are interested in playing fast turn-based (or realtime): feel free to follow me if you want to play

This issue plagues other fast turn-based games besides Gaia Project. The issue seems to be caused by people joining these games while not being aware of the playing times for the games. If people join games in the newer way from the game page, and they have specified that they are flexible on the game speed, BGA will add them to any fast turn-based game regardless of the playing hours. That means if someone in Europe starts a game, you may have people in the Americas or Asia that inadvertently join, and they will soon run out of time.

It's quite a shame and I hope BGA fixes this issue, because the idea of playing hours is a very good one. Consider voting for this bug: https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=57379

unfortunately that bug you posted hasnt been looked at by the devs in almost 3 years now...

CaseousRedundancy wrote: ↑12 May 2025, 06:12 unfortunately that bug you posted hasnt been looked at by the devs in almost 3 years now...

Dev here. It's a site suggestion, not a game bug, so the devs don't even see it.

Now, you're probably right that BGA employees haven't looked at it during that time, but let's not blame the volunteer game devs.

Yeah I meant the site devs, I'm sure the individual games sit above the matchmaking

That is very important for me also. I actually love playing fast paced games, but when the core hours are during my sleeping time, I will no make it and I finally get kicked. Got this a few times and stopped joining those types of games at all.