We are proud to introduce today 3 new improvements of the BGA time management system:
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Fast turn-based.
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Better "initial time" and "additional time" values.
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"No time limit" improvements.
On Board Game Arena we have chosen to give an high importance to the game clock, because when you play against strangers over the Internet there is nothing more frustrating than waiting for an opponent who takes way too long to play each move (or who decides to stop playing).
But our focus is to allow you to play with your preferred game speed: fast if you don't want to wait, slow if you don't care. And we have built these 3 new improvements exactly for this.
1. Fast turn-based
Since some years now, BGA has been supporting 2 modes: realtime and turn-based.
Realtime is good because it is really like a real boardgame. Turn-based is also cool because you are not stressed with the timer and can take your time for each move.
However, the drawback of turn-based is that a single game may takes weeks - and sometimes months - to be played. The fastest available speed on BGA is 4 moves / day (ie: 6 hours per move), and even at this speed a single game may be veeeeeery long.
At first, we didn't want to propose faster speeds: it makes no sense to play a 8 moves / day turn based game because it means that you would have only 3 hours / move. Even boardgamers must sleep sometimes...
However, we wanted to propose something between realtime and turn-based. Something that would allow turn-based players to make sure a game will not last more than 2-3 days, with the comfort of a turn-based game. So we are happy to launch now the "Fast Turn Based" feature.
Fast turn based introduces 3 new speeds for turn-based: 8 moves / day, 12 moves / day and 24 moves / day. But the most important thing is that you can define, for each tables some Playing Hours. A playing hours period is a 12 hours slot, for example "10:00 to 22:00". During the playing hours period, everything is like a normal Turn-based game. On the contrary, outside of the selected playing hours period, during the "night", the clock is not decreasing. Of course, you can play during the night if you want, but all clocks are "frozen" during this period.
Consequently, playing a Fast Turn based 12 moves / day (10:00 => 22:00) means that you get +1 hour additional thinking time on each move, and that the clock is frozen between 22:00 and 10:00.
Of course, all clock times are always displayed in your local time.
Note: this new feature is also particularly appropriate for turn-based tournaments, since in a tournament you expect each match to be played in a short time.
We hope you'll enjoy this new game speeds 🙂
2. Better "initial time" and "additional time" values.
When playing on BGA, whatever the game speed, the game clock has an "initial time" (which is also a maximum time) and an "additional time per move" values. These values are different for each game.
Ex: 3mn + 45s / turn.
We introduced a few weeks ago a new algorithm to compute the best values for each game. It is now based on the actual average time the players community is using to play each game on BGA, so it's really more accurate now.
With this new algorithm, we'd like to avoid some situations you may have encountered before:
Situation 1: you start a very quick game which should last only 3-4 minutes, but a player leaves the game and you have to wait 5 long minutes to expel him/her. With the new algorithm, we tried to reduce the maximum time for quick games so that you don't have to wait very long.
Situation 2: one of your opponents decides to take 3 minutes for each move, while most players play usually in 10-15 seconds. With the new algorithm, it's impossible to have an additional time really too long compared to the average thinking time, so your opponents cannot do this anymore.
Situation 3: in a turn based game with 1 move / day, your opponent plays 10 moves during a day to accumulate a lot of time, then does not play during 5 days. The new algorithm sets a more appropriate maximum time for turn based game so that a X moves / day game stays close to a X moves / day game, as expected.
Please note that for real-time the introduction of this algorithm decreased the allotted time for "fast" and "normal" speeds, and increased the time for "slow" speed for a majority of games. If you think the new allotted time is too short for you, please switch to "slow" speed for more comfort when setting up your game.
3. "No time limit" improvements.
A lot of you like to play with the "No time limit" option, for example to play with friends without worrying about the clock, or just because they don't want to have to pay attention to the clock.
So we made this option a little more visible and attractive when setting up the table options, and in addition, we actually removed the clock from the interface for games using "No time limit". So now they really look like "No time limit" games 🙂
Enjoy!
Brze poteze i poboljšanja sat
Ponosni smo predstaviti danas 3 nova poboljšanja BGA vrijeme sustav upravljanja:
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Brzo poteze.
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Bolje "prvog" i "dodatno vrijeme" vrijednosti.
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"Nema vremenskog ograničenja" poboljšanja.
Na igre Arena odlučili smo dati veliku važnost igra sat, jer kada igraš protiv stranaca preko interneta nema ništa više frustrirajuće nego protivnika koji traje previše dugo igrati svaki potez (ili tko odluči prestati igrati ).
Naš glavni fokus je da vam omogućiti da igrate s željena brzina igre: brzo ako ne želim čekati, sporo ako te nije briga.
I napravili smo ove 3 nova poboljšanja upravo za ovo.
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Brzo poteze
Od nekoliko godina, BGA podržava 2 načina: realtime i poteze.
Stvarno je dobro jer je zaista pravi boardgame.
Poteze je cool jer ste pod stresom s vremena i vremena za svaki potez.
Međutim, nedostatak poteze je da jednu igru svibanj uzeti nekoliko tjedana - i ponekad mjesecima - da se igra.
Najbrže dostupna brzina na BGA je 4 poteza / dan (odnosno: 6 sati po potez), pa i ova brzina jednu igru može biti veeeeeery dugi.
U početku, nismo željeli predložiti brže SpeedBar: nema smisla igrati 8 poteza / dan opet baziran igre jer to znači da će imati samo 3 sata / premjestiti.
Čak i boardgamers Moram ponekad spavati...
Međutim, htjeli smo da predloži nešto između stvarnom vremenu i poteze.
Nešto što će omogućiti igračima da provjerite igra neće trajati više od 2-3 dana, udobnost je poteze igra napoteze.
Tako smo sretni sad pokrenuti značajku "Brzo skrenuti temelji".
Brze poteze uvodi 3 nove brzine za poteze: 8 poteza / dan, 12 poteza / dan i 24 kreće / dan.
Ali najvažnija stvar je da možete definirati, jer svaka tablica nekoliko Sati igranja.
Igranje sati razdoblje je utor za 12 sati, primjerice "10:00 do 22:00".
U periodu igranja sati, sve je kao normalno opet baziran igra.
Naprotiv, izvan odabranog igranje sati razdoblja, vrijeme na "[b] noć", sat se smanjuje [/b].
Naravno, možete igrati tijekom noći, ali svi satovi su "zamrznute" tijekom tog razdoblja.
Prema tome, igraju brz okret na temelju 12 poteza / dan (10:00 = > 22:00) znači da ste dobili dodatno vrijeme + 1 sat na svaki potez, a to vrijeme je zamrznuto od 22:00 do 10:00 sati.
Naravno, sve sat vremena su uvijek prikazane u lokalnom vremenu.
Napomena: ovaj nov lice je također osobito prikladnim za turnire poteze, jer na turniru očekujete svake utakmice će se igrati u kratkom vremenu.
Nadamo se da ćete uživati u ovoj novoj igri brzine
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Bolje "prvog" i "dodatno vrijeme" vrijednosti.
Kada igrate na BGA, što god igra brzina, igra sat je na "prvog" (koji je također maksimalno vrijeme) i "dodatnih vremena po potez" vrijednosti.
Ove vrijednosti su različite za svaku igru.
Ex: 3mn + 45s i.
Uveli smo je prije nekoliko tjedana na novi algoritam za izračun najbolje vrijednosti za svaku igru.
Sada zasniva se na stvarni prosječno vrijeme zajednica igrača koristi igrati svaku igru na BGA, pa to je stvarno točno sada.
Sa ovaj nov algoritam, želimo izbjeći neke situacije te susreo prije:
Situacija 1: početka vrlo brzo igre koji bi trebao trajati samo 3-4 minute, ali igrač ostaje u igri i da morate čekati 5 duga minuta da ga izbaci.
Novi algoritam, pokušali smo smanjiti maksimalno vrijeme za brz igre tako da ne morate dugo čekati.
Situacija 2: jedan od protivnika odlucuje se 3 minute za svaki potez, dok većina igrača igra obično za 10-15 sekundi.
Novi algoritam, nemoguće je imati dodatni vrijeme stvarno previše dugo u odnosu na prosjek razmišljanje vrijeme, tako da vaši protivnici ne mogu ovo raditi.
Situacija 3: u skrenuti temelji se igra sa 1 potez / dan, vaš protivnik igra 10 poteza tijekom dana akumulirati puno od vrijeme, onda se ne igra tijekom 5 dana.
Novi algoritam postavlja više odgovarajuće maksimalno vrijeme za skrenuti temelji se igra tako da se kreće od X / dan igra ostala blizu da je X kreće / dan igre, kao što se očekivalo.
Imajte na umu da za real-time uvod ovaj algoritam smanjena dodijeljenog vremena za "brzo" i "normalno" brzine, i povećati vrijeme za "spor" brzina za većinu igara.
Ako mislite na novi svoje vrijeme je prekratko za vas, prijeđite u "spore" brzine za više udobnosti pri postavljanju vaše igre.
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"Nema vremenskog ograničenja" poboljšanja.
Puno vas vole igrati s mogućnošću "bez vremenskog ograničenja", na primjer igrati sa prijateljima bez brige o sat, ili samo zato što ne žele platiti na vrijeme.
Tako da smo napravili ovu opciju više vidljivi i atraktivan našto postavljanje gore mogućnosti tablice, a osim toga, možemo ukloniti sat iz sučelja za igre pomoću "Vremenskog ograničenja".
Sada izgledaju kao "Bez vremenskog ograničenja" igre
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