And I would like to collaborate sometimes someway… but there’s still another form to fill in order to get registered.
Am I the only one who gets annoyed by always have to register for anything?
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I’m so happy I didn’t have to register separately for this forum!
Obviously it’s not just an OGS problem: every site you walk in on internet asks you to register!
I must be the oldest dinosaur here for complaining about that, I know, but I really don’t like to have hundreds of profiles on different sites for different purposes and having to manage login info for each one of them.
Ironically, I’ll have to thank mr. Zuckerberg if so many sites allow users to register by their Facebook account… so they can be fully profiled and stalked.
I see the logic of your position, and basically agree. But there seems to be considerable abuse of these friendly policies. For example, one of the guys who timed out on me times out on ALL of his games, going back as far as I can see (50 games). Just saying…
It is not really an abuse, he/she probably stopped playing altogether for now, that is not uncommon and we can’t force anyone to play There would be no point in trying to punish such a player…
Appareantly not :D. I mentioned it somewhere already but obviously not publicly enough. Anyway if either of you is willing to collaborate on it, I will be happy to make it happen and very grateful. It has been on the todo for quite some time.
Shoot me a PM whenever you feel like the time is right. I think with 2 or 3 people it should be doable.
Nice to see that the topic of the thread is finally being discussed. However, I find it hard to understand why no agreement can be reached (even in principle) on a cap somewhere between 1 tournament at a time and 1,000 tournaments at a time (or even an infinite number, as seems to be the case). One of these days (if not already), a troll might get the idea of joining every tournament in sight over a number of months and then timing out of all of his games.
how many people are there who bail ? is there any statistics or is this discussion just for heresay because it happens sometime?
what would be your limit and how do you want to enforce it?
A tournament game can have up to 10 games per round (maybe even more). A tournament can go on for years.
Problems i see:
Do it tournament wise: People can not to join tournaments even when they have no active games, because they already have active tournaments. People will bet bored by waiting and leave.
Or if you do it gamewise: People who already joined tournaments get kicked off a new round because they have too many games.
So, i would not recommend to do it tournament or gamewise
If you allow going over the limit, you do not need the limit in the first place.
If you don’t do it tournament or game wise, what’s the solution?
Sometimes people will be no longer active. This will happen regardless if they time out from 30, 40 or 50 games.
The problem will NOT be solved. You want to use limits to reduce the problem, but you’ll only reduce it for a small margin or not at all.
What really will happen: people get pissed off, make 2-3 new accounts to play simultaneously. They will play with simultaneous accounts and they will time out with both at the same time when they stop playing.
About horrendously slow players:
If someone creates a tournament with weekends + 3day per move, then it’s okay for a player to use up his time. that is NOT misbehaving. if you do not like this CHANGE the rules.
If the problem are the system-wide tournaments, CHANGE THE RULES there.
ah and: change the vacation system.
so long story short:
i do not see how limits can solve the problems with timeouts.
I will not accept reasons like: many rules in society are like that. That’s just BS.
@evil_little_dream said exactly what I think. Players like Sadaharu or Mitsunari are not the ones who time out, and they play perfectly within the rules of the tournament. Punishing them for ‘delaying’ tournaments is just wrong
I agreee, if the problem is players who join bunch of tournemants before getting bored of go and just leaving OGS, i don’t think cap would do any good. Firstly, those players won’t join enough tournaments to reach the cap (unless you set the cap into something like 5), and secondly, that will just happen regardless of the cap.
If the problem is that players like Mitsunari, Sadaharu, …or me, have been playing correspondence tournaments for years and thus gotten tens or hundreds ongoing games, we’re all just trying to do our best to finish our games without timeouts.
If we manage to play our games in a given timelimits, we shouldn’t be penalised. Same as driving 99kmph on a 100kmph road, it’s not illegal to go almost over the speedlimit.
And if we don’t manage to play all of our games without timing out, we get dropped out of that tournament altogether.
Me too! Now I have over 100 joined tournaments and almost 70 open games, but in all time I play on OGS i had no timeout. Also you will no find any tournament in which my game was last (in round or tournament) except elimination tournaments when I played final game (if was any )
There would be no point in trying to punish such a player…
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