SpielByWeb

JeffyJeff · Joined: 27 Oct 05 Posts: 85 Location: Longwood, FL

One of the games I created and was playing has been waiting since early January for "AlanR" to take their turn. So I just finally dug a little deeper and noticed that according to his profile, over the last year this player has a total of 11 games to their record listed as abandoned (this does not include current games). See:

http://www.spielbyweb.com/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=579&g=A&d=abd

My guess is this person gives up on games once there is no chance for them to win Sad

In any case, the suggestion is, when creating a game, to be able to prevent someone like this from joining the game...

JeffyJeff · Joined: 27 Oct 05 Posts: 85 Location: Longwood, FL

I just found the topic http://www.spielbyweb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38 on a proposed way to help deal with this... but this topic was from 2004 Smile

I also now see related/similiar topic http://www.spielbyweb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=76

Jeff

jbluestein · Joined: 05 Mar 04 Posts: 28 Location: Westford, MA

Or you could simply only create passworded games, and only give out the password to people whom you know to be reliable. If you enter into a game with an unknown quantity, you run a risk.

Such is life.

JeffyJeff · Joined: 27 Oct 05 Posts: 85 Location: Longwood, FL

RyanMC · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject:

Just realize, the poor sports that quit a game, have no qualms abotu creating new names either. There is no perfect system.
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seamusk · Joined: 05 Feb 05 Posts: 21

I prefer open games and don't appreciate quitters. I think a system to punish quitters would be good. Even if they can create a new user name it will likely have at least some impact on the number of dead players.

Kanga · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:01 pm Post subject:

I would also like to see something in place that allows the game creator to kick out players they dont want from their games. Obviously passworded games work well if you have a set group of players you want to play with, but there's no reason why a creator of an open game can't have some power of veto too.

To quote an example, many non passworded games request frequent players only. However, in a couple of them I've been in, players who clearly by their playing time average are not frequent players have joined. Even the passworded speedy games are able to be joined effectively by everyone - the password isn't secret Smile

Golux13 · Joined: 14 Jul 05 Posts: 209

*gasp* We have a leak?!

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Kevin · Joined: 10 Jun 04 Posts: 12 Location: Pennsylvania

Speaking of which, there is a speedy passworded game looking for three players yet. Time to join in!!