Why the games with bots ends in annulment automatically now? OGS announced bot games are not ranked, I understand that. But I want to keep my games with bots like before.
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My guess it’s just an initial working of the new changes.
I’d say the server is expecting a game to be ranked or unranked, and only some bot games which are initially chosen to be ranked will stay “ranked”, as in count for rating changes for the bots. So maybe annullment was the first choice for this implementation.
Ideally though there could be another solution, even if it’s just a display change, to not show bot games as annulled, and crossed out in the game history.
Maybe one can show them similar to unranked, when they’re being de-ranked, let’s say?
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if ranked games vs bots are no longer ranked, “Play Computer” button should be fixed. It should be possible to directly choose bot that doesn’t accept ranked.
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yeah, I think we can just end the bot games as unranked games like before, and disable the “ranked” option when we start a game with bot. That will make the result less confusing.
Oh yes, that is an annoying one. You could consider searching ‘katago-micro’ on OGS though and send a challenge.
Did you click on “Friendly Match”?
I don’t think so, I don’t think I’ve notice that button, but I can’t see any info on the game since it’s grayed out
click here
Click on the grey “Friendly Match”. It will bring you to the games.
I see 
I always just clicked on the date before. Is this because it’s automatically annulled because it’s a game with a bot? All bot games are unranked now?
They’re supposed to show up as unranked - we’ll get that fixed.
Thank you! I saw the game list with bots are no longer showed as annulled. Thanks for making the OGS and its community better.
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Oh, I posted this too fast. =P
The game in the “game history” is no longer crossed-out, but clicking in to the game it is still showing annulled. But this is a step forward. Thanks. =)
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I think it’s all sorted now, eh?
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after these games are annulled, is the player’s rank adjusted as if they have never been played or does it remained unchanged?
It should be like they never played
So I found there are 2 ways to play with bots, but the results get treated differently.
- Search the bot, for example, noob_bot_1 , then click on its name and send a “challenge”, as pointed out previously by Moognus_Carlsen, this can ends the game “normally”. It will not be annulled, the result can be displayed correctly on the game history too.
- btw the “ranked” box is clickable when sending challenge to a bot, but I didn’t test that.
- On the main page, do “play→play computer→select a bot and play”. In this way, the game will be ended with a “game annulled” result. If player wins the game, there has no “winning mark” on the game history. The game on the history is not crossed-out though.
So the current “workaround” is the way 1. but it will be great if we can have a consistent behavior. =)
