start scheduled match slightly early!
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Backgammon Hub Admin
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New "Start Now" button added.
This will appear an hour before the agreed start time. It will only be enabled if both players are online and at the table.
When one player clicks the button, a 10 second countdown starts and the other player can agree to the early start. If the timer runs out, either player can click again to start another countdown.
Really hope this doesn't cause confusion for people. Let's see how it goes!
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Sam Rich (samkampala)
I just had a situation where I started an 11 point match against someone, who wanted to play on a slower clock. I then had to cancel that match, and schedule a new one 15 minutes later - it was a bit of a faff. One solution would be to allow people to schedule matches to "start now", and another solution would be to have the ability to play longer matches using the play now option.
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Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer]
Sam Rich (samkampala) early start has been implemented - see description just added.
You can already play up to 13 point matches when using "Play Now", but the match length needs to be enabled by your opponent in their preferences. When using "Play Later" you have more options and can have an open start (unscheduled) match. If you know the name/email of your opponent and want to play them, I suggest using Play Later. It will send an email with the link to the match, and they'll see it on their myhub homepage too.
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Allan Yarish 🇨🇦 (any1there)
Seems to me the obvious way to hand this would have an option to "Reschedule to Now". If one player proposes that and the other accepts, the game would then start immediately.
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Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer]
Nick Thorpe (denixuk), I think this would be nice to have but then it gets complicated... Do I need to check that both players are online and at the table? What if one player says they're ready and then goes away because the other player isn't there / hasn't said they're ready, then the second player says they're ready and starts the clock running, etc, etc.
All solveable for sure but in the end I decided to keep it simple and let people say hi and chat while waiting for the match to start. Just chill and enjoy the tranquility!
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Nick Thorpe (denixuk)
Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer]: Hi Alfie, thanks for consider it! Something like the "Autoroll" toggle button which says "Ready". If both players have it active at the same time the match starts.
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Denis-George Constantin (playhunter)
Nick, I voted yes .. but I remember I asked about the same thing few months ago and Alfie said he thinks is better not to have such thing. Guess Alfie knows better.
My alternative suggestion would be to allow us schedule matches starting with as low as 5 minutes intervals instead of 15 as it is now. Such a reschedule may work.