Check the chat of the game, about âkomiâ. So funny.
I didnât know that. I might be more careful when creating âcustomâ games in the future. If Iâm going to âcheatâ, at least I should give myself a chance to mathematically win. Ahahaha.
On a more serious note:
One nice tip from @Kosh was: when creating such games, changing the name to âNxN customâ or something alike should help avoid/minimize people clicking it without noticing.
Anyway⌠Still fun. People should be more relaxed.
While this isnât cheating, it is just a teeny bit anti-social.
Something we know (though I donât really understand) is that people donât read the game details especially well at all.
I guess they come looking for, and are accustomed to finding, straight up go games.
So in general we need to take a special effort to warn them that something strange is afoot, when something strange is afoot. Otherwise you will certainly catch people off-guard - even if you didnât mean to - and they will feel irritated about having their time wasted. Even if that isnât justified.
Thatâs why there are all those warning signs etc on the common unusual settings that trip people up. To try to avoid the otherwise inevitable moaning and groaning.
In this case, one extra thing that the âexperimenterâ could have done to make everyoneâs life a little easer is emphasised in the game name what this was all about. It was not a normal âFriendly Matchâ, it was a silly experiment.
As such, you really do owe it to your opponent, out of courtesy and consideration of not wasting their time, to put - ideally in BOLD - THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT WITH A SMALL BOARD" or similar.
Of course, if you are of the opinion that people should carefully read what they are accepting, and itâs their own silly fault if they accept something strange ⌠thatâs up to you: you certainly will get complaints from time to time.
I will also add that if you repeatedly do it, and repeatedly get complaints, we will ask you to stop. This has happened in the past: a person was clearly doing âexperimentsâ mostly to experiment with who they could trick. That got old really quickly.
Itâs self defense. Before we had the signs I was referring to (warning about custom komi) we had a stream of complaints to handle about that.
Similarly, you donât have to be clear about what wierd game you have set up, but the fact is that if you do not do that, then you will inconvenience people, and you will get complaints (and so will the moderators).
Much easier just to be clear in the first place, since demonstrably people donât check properly.
Another possibility for setting up unusual formats of games is to seek opponents out on the âEnglish Chatâ channel or in forums before setting them up by direct challenge.
Maybe the more extreme versions of board size should be limited to direct challenges and unavailable for general custom challenges but I do like that OGS offers as broad a range of possibilities as it does.
Isnât it that if you take the time to read the game details, someone else will have accepted the challenge by then. I have found (i havenât played live for ages) that i usually had to click on and accept a game very quickly to actually get that game.
I agree with you but unfortunately this simply doesnât work.
I tried that with way less unusual settings: fast correspondence. It was correspondence, so no hurry to accept the challenge like in live games.
I have put that in the game title and wasnât enough. I then started warning my opponent in the game chat and didnât work either.
Unusual settings are just inconceivable for most people. So if you want to experiment, do it with your friends (I did that too and worked perfectly).
Idk. Perhaps my settings are not extreme enough to even require the special titleâŚ
But I regularly play Canadian 1 day main 5 days/10 stone free weekends with the custom Tite â1 or 2 moves per dayâ
And it has worked excellent.
Now perhaps this is just still with in acceptable limits, but the majority of my opponents play at least at that rate, if not faster. This is even without making a deal out of time controls in chat.
It would seem the majority of my opponents not only see and understand the custom title, but even perhaps were actively drawn to it.
Yes, for sure I would be drawn by that myself. I agree that this in no way requires a special title: it is unlikely to surprise anyone. Special titles are recommended to try to avoid surprises.
