[Rules] Point Penalty for players who miss turns / deadbeat

[Jeff Hardy]

yeah also if a guy goes out on hoilday while a game is playinh and can't take his go that is unfair how the player loses 50-100 points when he usally takes his turn

the idea is bad but not for that reason
it would be the players own fault if he went on holiday and left a game
ever heard of account sitting?

[King James]

Excellent idea. 100 points may be severe, but there should be a penalty.

[blakebowling]

Excellent idea. 100 points may be severe, but there should be a penalty.

why, some people don't plan on missing, and can't help it, there shouldn't be a penalty

[Simon Viavant]

People deadbeat either

A) Because they have a life and can't make it on sometimes
or
B) Because they're multis in which case this would benefit the person making the multis.
Bad idea.

[blakebowling]

right, and I shall, once again, bring up the fact that the dedicated hunting team is shrinking (I'm not talking only about wicked, King was recently made full admin (I'm watching you Twill ))

Maybe an addition to that team would allow cheaters to be caught faster, stopping them from gaining points.

[t-o-m]

No,

100 points is a lot.

[OliverFA]

Deadbeating is the best way to go out in a game that you don't want to participate in if it has gone stale or something. Do NOT implement this. It is used very frequently as a method to get out of speed games instead of suicide. All this does is promote people suiciding in games. There's already a "turns missed" feature in your profile. If you genuinely feel that strongly against people who miss turns, look at profiles before joining games.

What about people that join AFTER you joined the game? The only way to ensure that you have no unwanted players in your game is being the last one to join.

[FabledIntegral]

Deadbeating is the best way to go out in a game that you don't want to participate in if it has gone stale or something. Do NOT implement this. It is used very frequently as a method to get out of speed games instead of suicide. All this does is promote people suiciding in games. There's already a "turns missed" feature in your profile. If you genuinely feel that strongly against people who miss turns, look at profiles before joining games.

What about people that join AFTER you joined the game? The only way to ensure that you have no unwanted players in your game is being the last one to join.

Then join games last if it means as much to you - the point remains in itself - deadbeating is the honorable way to get out of a game lest people suicide. Deadbeating might go down as suiciding would go up - mission not accomplished, now games are ruined for others. Who would this affect a majority of the time? The people who don't give a rats ass about their points - they are ALREADY losing them from the game. On the occasion it affects people that do care, they are getting shafted. It would also hurt those with higher poitn scores - 100 points for me is a lot harder to get than you.

[Simon Viavant]

Also, I can see some mediocre player deadbeating down to 10 points and then joining 40 person tournaments. If they lose, they don't lose any, and they'll win one eventually, and then they'll be at 4,000 points.