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How to inform?
Posted by
pulpbc
6 Jun 2004 8:04am
Is there anyone to whom we can inform some mad people? There are many people joining these games and if they lose, they just leave without resigning if they are sure that they will lose and then you have to wait 5 minutes to get your points. There must be a little authority to avoid this. And 5 minutes is too long.
Re: Ungracious losers
Posted by
webmaster
7 Jun 2004 9:33pm
You can inform GameColony via Contact Us of any particular incident.
By the way, we fully agree that in case some bad sport is losing by 90% or so and disconnects on purpose ... 5 min of waiting for him is way too long.
Within approximately 24 hours, we'll announce what we did to prevent this from happening.
-webmaster
arrested development
Posted by
pajamamensch
19 Jun 2004 2:44am
during one game i had a winning roll immediately after doubling .my opponent then stopped rolling until there was 2 seconds remaing on the clock. and repeated the behavior several times(so the next three moves took 14 minutes and 54 seconds)!Is there a way to avoid this situation (aside from banishing offenders)?
How to avoid this problem...
Posted by
webmaster
21 Jun 2004 5:40pm
To avoid this problem completely, you can play $Ticket or Ladder games only.
In $Ticket or Ladder games, GameColony counteracts the impoliteness of those 'bad sports' who make their opponents wait (with multiple reconnections, etc.) when their games are 'almost' lost
Instead of constantly taking administrative measures against such impolite
players, we have introduced a system that upon a player's disconnection evaluates the chances to win.
If chances to win for a disconnected player are less than 15%, then his/her opponent should not have to wait for the full reconnection time(s) to expire. Instead, the win will be awarded upon a single move expiration time.
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