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Must subbing be that fast? Support socialising in MBC

#1 User is offline   scarletv 

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Posted 2017-March-13, 07:17

There are a lot of different types of players on BBO. Some prefer to play with robots only, some play in the MBC, some prefer teams or tourneys. Some play with friends only and some don't care much with whom they play. Some are here to find friends or an potential bridge partner and others just want to train their playing skills watch vugraph. To make the community of Bride players as big as possible it will be helpful to cope with the needs of more than one type of player.

I understand that it is difficult to meet everyone`s expectations but sometimes a small change could help without annoying others.

Just imagine you sit at a table kibbing. Then one of the players leaves the table and you would like to join and maybe socialise with the rest. When the host did not block the seat you actually have no chance to do that as the replacement is too fast for humans. Could you possibly add a little hesitation before you assign a new player to the last open seat at an existing table? A second would already be enough to give humans a chance. When not possible in the flash version please put it on the wish list for the next BBO generation.
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Posted 2017-March-14, 09:48

Subbing in a bridge club table doesn't happen immediately. It happens when someone clicks on the seat to join, or uses "Help me find a game" and that seat happens to be the one that's chosen for them. At busy times it may be pretty quick, since there are lots of people using HMFAG.

The general expectation is that tables where they care who sits will either use "Require permission to sit" or lock the seat for a particular player.

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Posted 2017-March-14, 17:26

When you don't play in the MBC you will hardly see the problem.

My request is not about hosts who care who sits but about kibs that care to join. I tried it several times the last couple of days (with a different nick) and I can tell you that the seating is nearly always done immediately. That means it is so fast that you don't see "south" or anything showing the seat is free before the new player is seated. It is simply too fast for humans - a short hesitation would really help without disturbing anyone else.

Please try it yourself when you don't believe it and think about if it might be something to increase the pleasure of players who like to socialise in the MBC.
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