Fix or change Timer

[OG Formosity]

This is probably an old discussion because I know it's been somewhat of an issue for me for years. I know Konami won't fix the issue and it's probably even intentional.

I understand the concept of a timer to make the game play faster and to stop people from grieving etc. Speed duels, I get it. It's just frustrating to play a long game and when I'm finally about to win, I end up losing to the timer. Even though I play as fast as I can.

I just wish the timer would re-set to 30 seconds if you're actively playing or activating cards. I've lost lots of games while in a winning position.

[Shark]

I honestly never had problems with the timer even if i played against a deck i didnt know and had to check out the card effects. Are you playing a super slow deck like sleepbooks?

[Orochi Samurai]

Originally posted by Official Konami Loving E Girl:

I honestly never had problems with the timer even if i played against a deck i didnt know and had to check out the card effects. Are you playing a super slow deck like sleepbooks?

Same, the clock has never been an issue, comes close to the wire sometimes but not often at all.

[isick]

oof never had this issue

[1WingedAngel]

I only get this when playing Ritual Beasts, but I do think the timer is fair as it would literally just be unbearable playing against something like Crystrons if they could abuse the timer to get 30 more seconds with each effect.

[ojo loco]

Only bad thing about timer is that it doesn't reset to 30 seconds when you are running out of time until your next turn, so if you happened to be short of time and with activable cards you will lose on your opponent turn or just toggle OFF and don't activate anything

[Soda]

Originally posted by 1WingedAngel:

I only get this when playing Ritual Beasts, but I do think the timer is fair as it would literally just be unbearable playing against something like Crystrons if they could abuse the timer to get 30 more seconds with each effect.

Instead of 30, it could give you an extra 5-10 seconds to accomodate for all the menu interactions you need to do. That way when you end your turn you don't end up with 2 seconds on your opponents turn.

[OG Formosity]

Originally posted by メイドの召喚獣ーレイ:

Originally posted by 1WingedAngel:

I only get this when playing Ritual Beasts, but I do think the timer is fair as it would literally just be unbearable playing against something like Crystrons if they could abuse the timer to get 30 more seconds with each effect.

Instead of 30, it could give you an extra 5-10 seconds to accomodate for all the menu interactions you need to do. That way when you end your turn you don't end up with 2 seconds on your opponents turn.

Yea, I agree maybe 30 seconds would be way too long but something like 5-10 would be nice.

[Aries]

Originally posted by Kaiba☆Corp:

This is probably an old discussion because I know it's been somewhat of an issue for me for years. I know Konami won't fix the issue and it's probably even intentional.

I understand the concept of a timer to make the game play faster and to stop people from grieving etc. Speed duels, I get it. It's just frustrating to play a long game and when I'm finally about to win, I end up losing to the timer. Even though I play as fast as I can.

I just wish the timer would re-set to 30 seconds if you're actively playing or activating cards. I've lost lots of games while in a winning position.

May I ask what deck you are playing ?
Probably something like Flower Cardians or Aromage. Those decks take like forever in every single turn, to set up there 50000 BS actions. No wonder you time out a lot with decks like that. They don't fit very well into the speed format - if you ask me. Just play some other deck, that works quicker.
If you still run out of time...learn about your deck and the cards in it, before playing PvP. If you have to read so much, that you time out, well...you're just not familiar enough with your deck and the effects of your cards. Change that and you'll be fine.

[Orochi Samurai]

I use Aromage and never time out so no idea where you got that from 😅 any player who understands what does what in the deck should never struggle with time, if your learning fair enough, but there is a limit.

[Aries]

Originally posted by Orochi Samurai:

I use Aromage and never time out so no idea where you got that from 😅 any player who understands what does what in the deck should never struggle with time, if your learning fair enough, but there is a limit.

Well in the last couple of days I played against Aromage like 5 or 6 times. I lost only once, but I won 3 times, because the opponent ran out of time.
Aromage sometimes seems to take quite some time to set up correctly. But maybe the opponents I went against also just didn't build their decks properly, I don't know.
I played Aromage myself for quite some time and I never had any problem either. In fact - like you said - time should never be a problem. I was just saying, that there is a handful of decks, who naturally take more time for every single turn like most of the others. And if you don't know how to play such a deck correctly and don't know all of your cards effects, then it's very easy to run out of time. That's what I meant by "first learn how do use your deck properly, before entering the PvP".
Btw. I totally agree with you, that time indeed shoud never be a problem, no matter what deck you are playing ;-)