Originally posted by Marinkatomb This is something that has annoyed me about this site since i joined. When you have less than 24 hours left in your timebank, the site waits until your move time has run out, then brings up a red clock with your remaining time. I feel this isn't really very useful, if you have say, 10 minutes of timebank left, then the red clock doesn't appear until you ly the way the system was meant to work originally but got missed somehow...
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I have a big problem with not knowing when my opponent is about to time out.
As it stands now, when they cut into their timebank a little reminder thing appears where I can message him if I want to.
Now, if he moves, that reminder thing is gone and stays gone. He could be down to 1 minute and I would have no way of knowing unless I go into each individual game and view the time left.
I have currently 4 pages of games. Sometimes over 7. Way to tedious of a task to try to keep up with it.
Some little symbol on the games in progress page showing they are about to get a skull ( say within 24 hours) would be much more beneficial.
Originally posted by utherpendragon I have a big problem with not knowing when my opponent is about to time out.
As it stands now, when they cut into their timebank a little reminder thing appears where I can message him if I want to.
Now, if he moves, that reminder thing is gone and stays gone. He could be down to 1 minute and I would have no way of knowing unless I go into each ...[text shortened]... page showing they are about to get a skull ( say within 24 hours) would be much more beneficial.
Just wait until the skull appears.If you play a move in a game and then go back to your game list, the skulls do appear quite quickly.
I once got fed up with a player playing his move every time at the last minute so I sat up one night and waited for the skull!!
Originally posted by utherpendragon I have a big problem with not knowing when my opponent is about to time out.
As it stands now, when they cut into their timebank a little reminder thing appears where I can message him if I want to.
Now, if he moves, that reminder thing is gone and stays gone. He could be down to 1 minute and I would have no way of knowing unless I go into each ...[text shortened]... page showing they are about to get a skull ( say within 24 hours) would be much more beneficial.
If you click 'Time' on my games page it orders the games by how much time is left. Might help.. 🙂
Originally posted by Marinkatomb If you click 'Time' on my games page it orders the games by how much time is left. Might help.. 🙂
Thanks. I just did that and now I am totally confused ! LOL. I cant seem to get it back the way it was though. I had it where the last person who made a move went to the top of page one.
Originally posted by venda Just wait until the skull appears.If you play a move in a game and then go back to your game list, the skulls do appear quite quickly.
I once got fed up with a player playing his move every time at the last minute so I sat up one night and waited for the skull!!
I hear ya. Time management is a intricate part of the game.
Playing OTB you got the clocks right in front of you. I know how much time I have left and them me.
Playing this way is like doing a 100 simoe's and all of your opponents clocks are tucked away somewhere out of view.
It can get very frustrating.
perhaps im missing something here, my 24 hour clock seems to work perfectly, if i have 20 hours of time bank left, and im down to say, three hours left of normal time to move, my 24 hour clock has always come on in my my games list ... hmmm ... isnt that the way it is supposed to be? never had a problem with it ...
Originally posted by Marinkatomb Well, that can work but what if you are playing more than 10 1day 0 timebank games? Or if you are short on time in 100 games? Being able to easily at a glance which games require a move in the next 24 hours strikes me as being the most useful way of doing it..
Correct timeout clocks
28 Nov '11 01:091 edit
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