And also, reduce the hand timing, some people just take too much time to play a hand intentionally.
I don't think it's intentionally. What i think happens is that people register for the tourney then forget about it and the software doesn't sit them out automatically after they time out, so every hand they take up the whole timer. Also there needs to be a beeping sound when it's someone's turn to act, right now it beeps when the timer is running out but if I'm doing something else on the computer i don't know it's my turn to act until the timer is almost to the last seconds so it makes it seem like I'm waiting till the end to act.
Well that's a different issue and yes the software should sit the people out who are not active automatically.
What I am talking about is some people just intentionally take the whole time out to make the other person wait and it's super annoying.
Yes you are right it might need to be less than 30 seconds a hand.
But maybe it's not intentional because of this part of my post
Also there needs to be a beeping sound when it's someone's turn to act, right now it beeps when the timer is running out but if I'm doing something else on the computer i don't know it's my turn to act until the timer is almost to the last seconds so it makes it seem like I'm waiting till the end to act.
I know it happens to me sometimes and it's not intentional on my part, it's just because I may be multitasking and doing other stuff online and don't hear the beep until i only have a few seconds left to act. But maybe some people do it intentionally as well.