Rengo: what to do about dropout / AFK players

I’ve now been in quite many corr rengos, and almost all of those have had some people timing out or resigning super early. Actually it seems like most users who join open corr rengo challenges will indeed time out early on,

I think there are valid reasons for resigning early, for example “losing intrest of the game” is perfectly good reason for resigning, we cannot force anyone to be part of a game against their will. And if they’re not going to play, its lot nicer for the other players if they simply resign instead letting their time run out.

Also many times new accounts have joined those open rengo challenges, probably assuming that the game would start asap, but when the game has started weeks or even months later their account has already been abandoned. Of course i’m not saying that all new accounts are abandoned after a day or two, but quite large portion of those are.

Because the high timeout rate, i now feel like it would make much more sense to have rengos being “casual” by default. Maybe instead having checkbox for [ ] Casual it might be better to have checkbox for [ ] Strict timeout-rule for cases where the organiser really wants the game to end with the first timeout.

@GreenAsJade your thoughts of that idea?

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