I have recently been in a number of games with a certain player who has either been booted or nearly booted and received a timer penalty in every game. This player plays LOTS of Agricola, at all times of the day (over 1,100 games played in less than two years of having an active account). Yet despite being completely miserable to play against due to frequent disconnects, they have an 80% reputation immediately after having received a leave penalty.
This is unacceptable and reveals the ineffectiveness of BGA's reputation system. If one player can waste 90 minutes of three other players' lives over and over again and still be considered to have a "very good" reputation, the reputation system is broken. And this is a problem with many players in Agricola. If I red thumb them all, I fear I won't be able to find arena games and will be faced with the miserable prospect of playing games I know have a good chance of not finishing or not playing games at all.
I think the only solution is to revamp arena rules by forcing cooling off periods after players receive leave penalties to prevent them from immediately requeuing and ruining three other players' day. Yes, players can start alt accounts to circumvent the rule, but it does present another hoop that I optimistically think they may be too lazy to jump through.
I know this issue has been brought up before, and this may just be another venting thread. But I know lots of people feel the same way, that something must be done, and we must keep posting publicly about it in the hopes one day the problem is taken seriously.
This is unacceptable and reveals the ineffectiveness of BGA's reputation system. If one player can waste 90 minutes of three other players' lives over and over again and still be considered to have a "very good" reputation, the reputation system is broken. And this is a problem with many players in Agricola. If I red thumb them all, I fear I won't be able to find arena games and will be faced with the miserable prospect of playing games I know have a good chance of not finishing or not playing games at all.
I think the only solution is to revamp arena rules by forcing cooling off periods after players receive leave penalties to prevent them from immediately requeuing and ruining three other players' day. Yes, players can start alt accounts to circumvent the rule, but it does present another hoop that I optimistically think they may be too lazy to jump through.
I know this issue has been brought up before, and this may just be another venting thread. But I know lots of people feel the same way, that something must be done, and we must keep posting publicly about it in the hopes one day the problem is taken seriously.