Stronger dan players on OGS?

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@BHydden

We literally have a single button for blitz games. What more can we do here?

Remove 90% of the other options for ranked games. Nudge users to start using it more.

Why does OGS have to be the special server that offers 9 minute fischer start time + 12 seconds per move to a max time of 3 hours 30 minutes? What is the point?

More specifically, if I hit that button but don’t go through more advanced hoops. What am I getting? It is not transparent at all? Am I getting absolute, fischer, canadian, or byo yomi? Oh yeah I can hit “prefer byo yomi”. A user has to look through all this noise to find that and all that achieves is splitting the player pool. I could go on forever.

@BHydden

AFAIK this is only true for “simple” time. I’ve never heard of this being reported for fischer or byo-yomi?

I am surprised. I wish you would put some legwork in to find forum threads that I know exist but if you choose not to, then I will do it later tonight.

edit: actually, I didn’t even find the thread that I participated in and skipped over a few… but here are some:

Timing out glitch

Not sure if this is known to OGS or not. But have been timing out of blitz games a lot at the 3/4 second mark. Is this fixable or is this a prob with a non-client interface? Never had this problem with Wbaduk or KGS. Experienced it like 10 times at least. Non-blitz or people who do not skirt the line with byoyomi often will not know this unfortunately.

Lost by timeout despite playing move

Just lost this game as white. Time settings were 2 minutes per move. I submitted what should’ve been move 108, B2, with about 30 seconds to spare. Stone appeared on the board and I didn’t get any error message, like the “error submitting move” popup I’ve seen occasionally in the past. But a few seconds later, I lost by timeout. I was very surprised. At that point, the stone was no longer on the board. There must have been an error of some kind in submitting the move, but as the user, I wasn’t i…

Countdown skipping last second moves

I just played my fourth game in which I placed a stone at the last second, heard the sound and saw the stone on board and then the system suddenly removed the stone from the board and informed me I lost because of timeout. This has been consistently happening to my friends in my region using OGS also. I have a fairly good internet connection which doesn’t have any problems with streaming 1080p streams and such. Even if this is a ping/speed problem it is unfair that people with worse internet co…