Board Game Arena

Hey

Am I the only one getting frustrated with this?


"Could there please be a way in settings to change the order of the games that come with going to next table from game to game.

Right now it prefers currently active opponents but I wish it would rather give me:
- the tables where I have the least time for first
and/or
- let me go through all my current games alphabetically etc

The current option leads to basically playing real time in turn-based mode. Meanwhile other games might go over time cause of that cause I wont get to them cause only getting the active players making their turn back right away. The current option has often left me going over time in tournaments as their allowed time is so big they simply wont turn up.

I find it really really frustrating and believe turn-based mode could be made better with a little options in the order of games."

If Im simply dumb and theres an easy solution Ill gladly hear it and would like to hear your experiences.
If youve had the same issue you can vote for my suggestion here (or link your own suggestion): https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=201280

I feel like this is an issue that doesn't need settings as much as it needs sane defaults. I think a reasonable priority system would be something like:

1. Games where you have less than 30 minutes left, ordered by time left
2. Games without increment (i.e. tournament games), ordered by time left
3. Games where you have less than 22 hours left, ordered by time left
4. Games where all opponents are present, ordered in some fashion that makes you rotate between them, could for instance be by prioritising the game where it is the longest since you last moved
5. All other games, ordered by the fraction of max time that you have left

I dunno, that seems a bit complicated to me (which makes it harder to implement and runs the risk of being buggier). I don’t think it needs to be so complex.

Just sort by amount of time left on my clock, and one configuration option: should tournament games get bubbled to the top (since you never get more time) or not?

No, it is not complicated by any relevant metric. This is like 10 lines of code, but more important is that it is a local change that has minimum interaction with the rest of the system. Implementing another setting is likely to be more work.