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HenriqueCunhaBR
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Search for open tables

Post by HenriqueCunhaBR »

Id really like to see all tables that are waiting for players. Its like a feature that would really make a lot of things easier to us
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Meeplelowda
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Re: Search for open tables

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HenriqueCunhaBR wrote: 24 August 2025, 02:59 Id really like to see all tables that are waiting for players. Its like a feature that would really make a lot of things easier to us
Do you mean every open table for every one of the over 1000 games on the entire site?

You can already see the open tables for games you've favorited and/or played on the Play Now page if you set the search to Manual.
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HenriqueCunhaBR
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Re: Search for open tables

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I mean every table open from all 1000+ games... im not saying i would scroll all tables, but it would be nice to see what is the highiest game that has open tables at that particular moment

They alredy have the data and the code, it wouldn be difficult to implement such thing
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HenriqueCunhaBR wrote: 25 August 2025, 19:47 They alredy have the data and the code, it wouldn be difficult to implement such thing
They probably won't do it for the same reason they took away the page that shows how many active real time and turn-based games were currently running for all games. The don't want the server load of refreshing that kind of page. But at least the load of that page could be managed, if they chose to do so, by only running the query every hour, or every three hours, or less. In order for what you want to be useful, that query on open tables would need to be run every time someone loaded the page because it would be useless to know that there were 4 tables of Ark Nova waiting for players 3 hours ago.

I suppose you could get what you want by adding all the games on the site to Favorites. Or maybe they cap that for this very reason.
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