Or just use the banking boot time feature and you'll build up sufficient reserves to handle a disconnect if it occurs.

Having said that, I think a one minute boot warning is a good idea for real time games. It would enable players to hit confirm or skip changing an order, etc. Those boots must be very frustrating.

I disagree with the assertion that most boot problems are with the real time games. In fact, I'd argue the reverse. There's a sense of understanding with most real time games and a fairly standard unwritten rule of booting at 8 or 10 (in 5 min games) but only after a shout out for the missing person and, then, when someone calls to vote to end it's rarely an issue. My multi-day games are a different story. Someone goes on a boot frenzy within a couple hours of the boot time (I've actually seen someone boot 4 of the 6 players in the game right at the boot time) with absolutely no shout-out and arguments over voting to end... even if the boot(s) kill the game, which they often do.

Go back and look over the various posts of people complaining about being booted. The vast majority of them are involving 5min boot games. That's a pretty clear signal...

Well, open games with just about anybody might have the same problem, regardless of being 5 minutes of 24 hours long. It's just that there are more 5 minute games played (I think?) than 24h, so consequently there have to be more boots.

Imho, multi-day games are easier to not get booted from, presuming you don't overload yourself...

devilnis - I can only speak from my own experience and maybe Matma Rex is on to something. I play more real time games than multi-day (usually have only 10 or so multi-day games going on at a time) and so maybe the boots from multi-day games stand out in my mind. But during and just after the holidays, half of my multi-day games ended because of the large number of boots happening in them.

Hmm well I've only been booted 5 times in over 250 multiday games, but maybe it's just the people I play with, sometimes I feel like there's a bunch of closed circles of people that play each other, with no interchange between those groups...

most of my boots were from real time games.. my own fault really, trying to play 3 5 minute games at a time...

when you say after 5 minute boot a two minute delay, then itd just be 7 minute boot.

No because it's two minutes from the actual boot. If you like the 5 minute format make it 3 minutes. That would make 5 minutes the floor, but the max would be whenever the boot occurs + 2 minutes. The idea is to prevent tricky double boots (like when one player changes orders after seeing no boot of another player that's gone over.

Also for those trying to play the odds and go over by a few seconds, they'd know theat the boot has occurred already and if they don't confirm within the next two minutes they've lost. I think it's a good idea to make boots not instantaneous.

booting iz teh shiz