@carnybarker To answer your question, this happened to me once. I think it was only for a few hours. Maybe longer, i don't know.

@MapmakerE Greetings. I usually play via my phone and I am unaware of the permission granted. If I want to join a game that is hosted and waiting for a player, I just click accept and then I am in. Occasionally the person will decline the game (as you did once), but I don't recall getting a "no thanks."
Wondering what your criteria is for playing/not playing someone.
Come to think of it, I guess when I play at my computer I get an "accept/decline" option. On the app I think the only criterion is rating. If I set a window, someone outside cannot play, inside, the game starts upon them accepting it.

Who is Terry?

@retired2017 I think the point is that this thread was originally begun in 2021. You said you haven't seen any changes - and I'm just trying to tell you that the changes mentioned in this thread originally were 2 1/2 years ago.

I don't mean to sound rude, but the few times I have emailed an issue to admin the response is pretty much non-existent.

@wildest40 I don't know the answer but also I'm not sure in which format you're playing. When I use the app on my Android phone and play a live game, sometimes that will happen. I'll set the game up in the game room and somebody automatically joins and then don't doesn't play. My grape is that it takes 3 minutes of waiting until the game automatically ends. If you're talking about some other format I'm not sure what to say

@retired2017 Nothing recently. The change was in 2021.

Since I posted this message I haven't deleted one game people have started with me and deleted the game and now I'm getting the message as if I'm the person deleting them. Since the developers are completely unresponsive I guess I'm just ranting here for no better reason other than to rant.
I've I canceled my subscription for this reason. I'm sure my $4 or whatever it is per year will make no difference to them, but got to vote with my feet right?
Thanks everyone for listening

@retired2017 Yes, I've been a paying member for years. I like the game so much it's worth it to me to support the guys. But for some reason on the app you still have to earn game points. At least there are no reoccurring ads once you have the game credits

@mapmakere yeah the good news is that it didn't last long but I was pretty darn annoyed when I posted this because I've literally been a pair paying player forever. Something thing that bothers me about the internet is that when it puts you in a broad category with other people and same penalty without any intelligent thoughts or decision making behind it.

@retired2017 in order to play on the app you have to watch a certain amount of ads, you sit through one unsufferable ad for a few moments and you get five game credits. Then you play and you run out of them and then you have to charge up again. So if you join a game with somebody and they never play and you delete the game early you lose a credit. You may not lose a credit if the person just times out. But that 3 minute is too long and I should mention that I play 5 minute games so 3 minutes is pretty much impossible to recover.

@betterlate1-0 Or even one plink every 5 seconds. But the way they have it now is just horrible not just the way it works but the way it sounds.

When I play a live game on the app I start a game, someone joins and then you have to wait for the opponent to play. Sometimes the game will start but the opponent won't move. Either they forgot or walked away from their phone or computer or whatever. After 3 minutes the game will end (and of course we're still charged a game credit). So rather than wait the full minutes, if it goes about 2 minutes without my opponent playing I just delete the game assuming the other person isn't going to play - 3 minutes is just too long.
So now that I've done that a few times this this game or the developers have actually flagged my account and I can't start a game and I received the message that says that I can't play for a while.
It's so stupid - of course I emailed the moderators the developers no response. Thanks guys!

I've played this game for so long I used to be in touch with the developers and I've been a paying member forever but I'm going to cancel my subscription. Just too annoying.

@latiflorus No. But I have not tried to reset my password. Make sure the clock on your computer is set correctly. Very unlikely that it's wrong but you never know. Also you might want to clear your browser's cache or even use a different browser

@thatguythere202 Desktop is different. I am talking about the Android app. It does not ding once ever, and certainly not with one minute to go. That sounds tolerable - but I just played on the computer. It made a weird chirp at 0:48 seconds and then another I think at 0:38. Not horrible (but not great). The annoying tickticktick on the app at 15, then 10 then 5 is bad. An example of programmers not really experiencing the game from the user's POV

@mapmakere Not what I am talking about, but okay.

@mapmakere I play on my Android and that annoying timer sound cannot be turned off, unless I am mute the entire phone and I don't want to do that because I want to hear the ding when it's my turn.
I figured out what it does, which helps a little. When there's 15 seconds left left to go it ticks for 4 seconds then it pauses for one pointless second, now we're at 10 seconds, then it ticks for another 4 seconds then it pauses another second and then it ticks for the remaining 4 seconds. It's the most annoying, pointless thing & it sounds ugly. The developers failed on this one.
Thanks for listening

Playing in the app, does anyone know how the games end if players stop playing? I understand after two weeks the game ends, but who gets the win? Is it to the high score, the last player to move, or something else?

@majorwordster
I don't agree.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/airforce
It's an agency, so that's a name. If it's used generically, it's two words.
But my understanding is that the game developers don't set these lists - there are official committees.