Public forum discussion.
27 Jun 2012
I have had it many times
i played all my games ,and still
got a message about 1 vacation day
because one my games timed out
this is not true
has anyone the same experience
and can someone do something about
this untrue message
28 Jun 2012
28 Jun 2012
but all the games had more then 24 hours
so they couldn´t time out ,that is the whole
point
28 Jun 2012
Is it possible that the game didn't have 24 hour, but showed 24hr due to not clicking refresh?
Another possibility is a game getting restored, I had a game restored and timed out when I was sure I had made all my moves! The game restored was restored with 2 hours on the clock and I returned to find I had timed out!
29 Jun 2012
The server hasn't previously both (a) thought that a positive number was negative, and, (b) when adding 24 to a positive number, got a result less than 24.
So all the evidence points to one of your games not haing more than 24 hours on it, and instead having less than 0 hours on it.
And I don't think 'clicking refresh' should be the recommendation - this is an EWN game - it takes just as long to click 'refresh' as it does to make a move, so just make a move instead.
29 Jun 2012
I think I've seen something similar. It seems like I've spent vacation days before my games hit 0 hours. Maybe when they hit 24 or 36 hours. I think I've lost several vacation days due to this.
29 Jun 2012
@FatPhil It depends where you are on the site, if you have the list of games up then you would refresh, if in a game trying to make a move would show the correct time. It would make sense for a player to be relying on the game list in order to know they have no games with less than 24 hours!
Some sites autorefresh the game list every 3 minute so a player that uses another site with such a feature is understandably in danger of trusting the screen to provide uptodate info.