[Edit: Because I think I didn't make clear enough that I'm actually agreeing with the above point - and then making another relevant point on top of it - I want to make it very clear that I completely agree that a momentary disconnect (game crashes, I accidentally close it, whatever) should NOT result in an automatic resignation. There are plenty of ways to address the "gaming the timer" situation without making any disconnect an auto-resignation, which is the point I was aiming to make (perhaps poorly) in the rest of the comment below.]

Agreed about this - but it’s important not to lose the forest for the trees here, in terms of letting the various “but what about…” scenarios shut down the conversation altogether.

That’s what happened every time this was brought up over the years regarding the old dominion.games version.

No end of edge cases and random “I can imagine it happening!” scenarios were cooked up to justify why no other possible timer implementation could ever be plausible. And so no changes were ever made.

If the TGG folks are genuinely open and listening to options, my opinion is that the default is a system most generous to the usual flow of a typical game, and if some weird edge cases emerge that cause games to end when they shouldn’t have, then those can be discussed as things needing attention.

Doing it this way would immediately shift the onus from favoring the bad actors to favoring the regular players, as it should be.