Please inhibit subbing for the same tourney again

[mink]

Hi,

 

not sure if this subject was already mentioned, but this is what just happened to me:

 

I completed a tourney that I joined as a sub. Then I was invited twice for the same tourney again. When I refused the second time I was told that I am no longer on the sub list for that tourney.

 

But I should have better been removed there automatically the in the moment I joined this tourney for the first time.

 

I would like extend this suggestion: Please remove a player from any sub-list in the moment he is successfully subbed into a tourney!

 

Because what happened to me was I had clicked to sub in 2 tourneys. After I had played 4 boards in one of them I had completely forgotten of course that I was in the sublist of the other one. So when waiting for the result for the first one I was suddenly auto-subbed into the second one and had to play 3 more boards there. Fortunately, it was no problem for me this time.

 

Ok, here is another one:

 

If some player is not responding but also not red, it is not possible to sub him the convenient way with just clicking and invitation - or maybe I just did not find out so far how to do it.

 

My suggestion is that the system sets up a timer for each player when it is his turn to bid, play or answer a claim. Timer starts at say 150 seconds (maybe make this a function of "minutes per board") and counts down. If it reaches 0 the client is pinged, and the player turns red in case of no response to the ping. If the ping succeeds, a dialog is displayed that asks the player "Are you still there?" Player has 15 seconds to click "yes", and if he does not, he is replaced by "sitout", thus enabling the director or partner to perform a convenient subbing.

 

This way, directors would know that it is never necessary to sub a non-red player, and all subbing could be done with invitations.

 

Karl

[EdmundB]

this or something similar would be great. 60 sec of non-activity at your turn should = RED - SUBBABLE by partner.