I've set the beeping to 4 seconds. That way I need to play directly after the third beep.

One thing that's a bit annoying is that it beeps when my opponent is running low on time too. Occasionally useful to give him additional time, but usually just annoying.

Worms used some variant of the tone based countdown. And that worked pretty well in my experience, even for people like me who at hearing such stuff.

Another possibility is loading an audio file saved in a certain location. That way advanced users get what they want without much work.

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Wbaduk has good countdown and I move self there whenever I play blitz, so just take what they do and implement it on kgs. Everyone will be happy.

All of this debate is stimulating, to be sure. However, I would be happy to have an option where the alarm for game challenges and automatch games sounds, but the clicking of the stones does not.

Is this too complicated to include in a release soon?

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Life is what you make of it, as long as you live.

My suggestion: time is running out

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Patience, grasshopper.

If you start a fund/collection, I'm sure wms would do this for something less than $100,000 a year. (I'm teasing you guys, of course.)