I just had some 5min-Auto-Boot games lately in which the autoboot kicked in way too early (20-50 secs). Is there something wrong with the game mechanics?

No. You can set auto boot times to kick in at 5 minuites and just after. It's just custom settings.

Skunk, that was nowhere close to answering his question. He wasn't interested in knowing what auto-boot can be set to... he wants to know if anyone else has experience the auto-boot triggering too early.

Raze, I recommend posting the link to the game(s) in question. Will allow others to verify what happened.

sometimes there are some differences between timers (server and player, fizzer might have to do some of his amgic to get thinks ok

things* probably there are some more misspleing, i dont care

There are some time delays but personally i have never had any.

banking boot times also tends to screw with the auto-boot timings accuracy.

we had the same thing happen in our game 30 min ago... player booted 40 seconds before clock ran out.

@ps: it was on the picking stage and first turn and anyhow, no banking boot times involved.
@skunk940: the games were five minutes manual and auto.

Here is the link to the game where it set in twice too early (at picking and first turn):
http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=3694495