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Bumping this thread… I play in a tournament series in which at least one player regularly makes the calculated decision to abandon games as soon as it is clear he is in a losing position. 4 karma as the penalty is so negligible/recovered so quickly that he would rather grief his opponents and minimi...

Idk, seems pretty hyperbolic. Quitting games (even thousands of them) doesn’t make them a war criminal. It does, however, negatively affect a lot of people’s experience using the site, particularly in tournaments. It seems like a lot of time and energy has been devoted to hashing it out, denying it’...

It's actually in interesting question if anyone has tried talking to them. Well - I haven't myself (but I commented on stuff about that subject so shame on me!). But has anyone tried? Was there a response? I thought we are not allowed to approach each other about this kind of stuff? You can be cens...

It should be clear by now that the karma system does nothing to stop this kind of behavior. It only hurts people who play a relatively small number of games. It happens to everyone- you get sick, busy, travel to a place with poor internet, etc. However, because this person signs up for hundreds of g...

I haven't played enough Alien Artifacts yet, but in the first expansion arc, Galactic Developers definitely creates some very unbalanced runaway leader games in 2 player advanced. It's too easy to stack other development effects and do nothing but call double develop. The other development based sta...

https://i.imgur.com/FQ4w5mz.png In danger of straying the topic of discussion back to the start, I have a question about how moderation works. I was, admittedly in line with the terms of conduct, moderated against for posts in a different thread. Reading the moderation report, however, it show that...

+1. Since joining BGA, FWF has joined and caused disruption to *every single tournament* I’ve entered. Their pattern of registering for every tournament available, disappearing for a week while timing out of hundreds of games, then playing just enough fast games to restore karma and register for eve...