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Kicking a player at THE end of a game
Posted: 10 December 2025, 14:55
by aurel56
Hello,
I make several tourmanents on many games : Agricola, Caverna, Project Gaia.
It happens often that a player does not have any more time, but the game is going on, may be even 2 weeks sometimes.
But arriving at the end of a game, when another player realises he won't win, he kicks the first player who is out of time.
Another example just now
https://boardgamearena.com/1/agricola?table=758896877
As tournaments game have some players from America, Europe and Asia, I understand it is complicated for everyone because of time.
But I would like to put a malus to players waiting for the end of the game to kick players that don''t have time any more.
I saw it too on a Project Gaia game a few weeks ago, this is ridiculous, and seems a "bad loser" habit.
What other players thinks about it ?
Re: Kicking a player at THE end of a game
Posted: 10 December 2025, 18:47
by Meeplelowda
aurel56 wrote: ↑10 December 2025, 14:55
Hello,
I make several tourmanents on many games : Agricola, Caverna, Project Gaia.
It happens often that a player does not have any more time, but the game is going on, may be even 2 weeks sometimes.
But arriving at the end of a game, when another player realises he won't win, he kicks the first player who is out of time.
Another example just now
https://boardgamearena.com/1/agricola?table=758896877
As tournaments game have some players from America, Europe and Asia, I understand it is complicated for everyone because of time.
But I would like to put a malus to players waiting for the end of the game to kick players that don''t have time any more.
I saw it too on a Project Gaia game a few weeks ago, this is ridiculous, and seems a "bad loser" habit.
What other players thinks about it ?
Instead of looking for a way to punish someone for something they are allowed to do, configure your tournaments with the new setting that disables the ability to kick someone.
Re: Kicking a player at THE end of a game
Posted: 10 December 2025, 18:56
by Carolinemgm
Maybe you can consider that no one kicked him, the game simply ends because there is also a limit so the tounrmant can go on.
I ee that th game lasted 30 days which is the limit made by the tournament rule.
Re: Kicking a player at THE end of a game
Posted: 11 December 2025, 05:57
by Mathew5000
It looks like there were two players out of time, and it was one of those two who skipped the other's turn:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamereview?table=758896877 at move 765.
See
viewtopic.php?t=30767 and
viewtopic.php?t=40667 and be sure to upvote
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=153554
Re: Kicking a player at THE end of a game
Posted: 13 December 2025, 19:41
by FSKFSK
The rule should be: If "completion percentage of game" is greater than "percent of total time used", then nobody can be kicked for running out of time.
I.e., if you've used 50% of the time and the game is 10% complete, go ahead and kick the slow player. If you've used 70% of the time and the game is 90% complete, then you shouldn't be allowed to kick someone.
Re: Kicking a player at THE end of a game
Posted: 13 December 2025, 20:18
by dschingis27
FSKFSK wrote: ↑13 December 2025, 19:41
Why though? Why do you want to grant certain players more thinking time than others?
If you cannot manage to finish a tournament game in time, you shouldn't have started in the tournament.
EDIT: Ok, I think you are coming from the multiplayer-situation described in the beginning of the thread. Maybe then your suggestion makes some sense, but only for games with more than 2 players. It's still a little odd as it might end up with some players eating up much more time than others. And you would certainly still need some mechanism to teach those delaying players that it is not acceptable to go over time. Actually, in the suggested system, one player gains more time the faster the others play.