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Timer Stalling

For the second time this week I have encountered a timer staller in my ranked game. It is absurd as there is zero penalty for doing this. To make matters worse I was playing on cellular data and this wastes a ton of data. To clarify what I mean by timer stalling, the opponent doesn’t make any actions for the full 25 minutes that they have. It is impossible to counter this as I don’t want to stare at my phone blankly for 25 minutes and I can’t exit out the app since that will time me out of the game. I beg the developers to fix this issue, it ruins the spirit of the game and makes it impossible to play. My suggestion would just be to carry over the feature from ptcgo that causes the turn to switch after a certain amount of inactivity.

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  • Hunter_he1995
    Hunter_he1995 Member Posts: 1
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    The same thing happened to me with a player using double gunner intelion vmax. When the timer runs out they also do not auto lose its a very frustrating bug that must be fixed. There should be a way to also report a player mid game.

  • TechHog
    TechHog Member Posts: 2,891 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited March 2023 #3

    It's not timer stalling. There's an action timer (in other words, your suggestion is already a feature in the game), so it's impossible to stall by not taking actions. What happened is that there was a connection issue, causing your game to desync and get stuck.

  • Edurandomnumber
    Edurandomnumber Member Posts: 331 ✭✭✭
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    This is exactly why I'm glad we do not have a report button, imagine how many people would be reported for stalling when in reality the problem is either a bug in the game or a connection problem from the player reporting.