I feel really sorry that my first ever writing on the forum is going to be a complain about anyhing, but here we go.
I am playing here for several years and consider myself very modest about any type of speaking on the site usually. However, lately there are some players and type of behaviour in tournament games that I cannot understand, nor I can tolerate and stand anymore. Some players are taking this way too far when no one punishes them and it just feels they are invincible. Red thumbs, speaking with tournament masters, asking these individuals directly... Nothing ever helps! They think themselves above any type of a moral system and rules of fairplay.
The situation I am going for all of this happened couple days ago. Catan game, tournament game of a fairly casual type, 4 players, open chat. As you know, some people (for obvious real-life reasons) cannot play that fast so turns in games are sometimes a little slow. I am one of those with a lot of free time at the moment and am able to be quite fast. But I strongly take to defend the position of anyone who has something essential in his/her life and as a result he/she just is unable to be 24/7 on the site. That is really okay and logical. But also, you know in tournaments sometimes even 15 minutes might decide a place at the end of the game if one of the players is on the time limit. And in the given game I am talking about we had about a week everyone in game time to finish our own turns. I am at 5 days left, another player X is at 4 days left and the other two players are about 2 days off the limit. I had a reminder I have to play my turn and logged in. And I see that the player X is having 5 days left now. Hmmm??? Well, I thought I was wrong and probably have remebered falsly. However, it happens for second time that he goes down to 4 days left and the next time I had a turn, he is at 5 days again! This time I am 100% sure I remembered correctly. How can one's clock go backwards?! And how I have seen this only in games of Catan and Ticket to ride and not in any of the other games I play? No logic! How only a handful of players happen to be "going backward in time"? My only view of this is there is some time-zone abusing. I do not know how it should work, but see no other option as is never goes like this for the average player. Some people have probably find a way to cheat the time system with the idea to obviously clock out the other if there is the chance to. And in tournaments when you have smaller time-limit, it would actually be extremely valuable as you can take a place or two higher finish in games with more players involved. So, better chances in the tournaments in general. My asking is how or would anyone be able to check the player X's play dates and playtime? Is there a way to expose this kind of "clocking" as I am calling it? Because it is ridiculous way of taking advantage.
And to add more to the situation I was in couple days ago - the player X accused another player of our Catan table of lying about resources!!! Not only he was abusing the game clock, he was also trying to make a scene during the game for something that is within the rules! In Catan no one is obliged to tell exactly how much of a given resource he/she is holding. So asking about that is out of question. But player X not just accused the other player of "hiding information", he also tried to make it look like this third player is lying to us. Absolutely cruel as he was already using some kind of cheating to make it looks like someone else is doing it. This is so low moral, I have no words to even tell how it feels. Like we are all clowns and he is the Mind himself making fun of his pawns. On top of that, you cannot even report him in the system here as I saw no option for neither maniulation of game time, nor option for accusing falsly another player of not being fair.
This player's toxic behaviour ended up as I just asked him in the game chat about all he was doing and how his moves towards us were fishy and abusive and he responded with "haha, I am not CHEACHING", clearly trying to make us look stupid about even addressing this to him. What should I do so he gets the punishment he was asking for? I can provide link to the game table so an admin can revise his action. And again, if that is possible, check his play time and potential abusing of the time in some manner. Unfortunately, this is not the only time I have seen this kind of behaviour, this is just the latest one that made it enough for me. Sorry about all of this, but it is making me feel powerless to do anything against as I cannot even properly report him! Such toxic players are ruining tournament game here and there and always go unpunished. Why it has to be?! One's behaviour is something to be revised when he/she is abusive towards others and even refusing to take their actions seriously!
I am playing here for several years and consider myself very modest about any type of speaking on the site usually. However, lately there are some players and type of behaviour in tournament games that I cannot understand, nor I can tolerate and stand anymore. Some players are taking this way too far when no one punishes them and it just feels they are invincible. Red thumbs, speaking with tournament masters, asking these individuals directly... Nothing ever helps! They think themselves above any type of a moral system and rules of fairplay.
The situation I am going for all of this happened couple days ago. Catan game, tournament game of a fairly casual type, 4 players, open chat. As you know, some people (for obvious real-life reasons) cannot play that fast so turns in games are sometimes a little slow. I am one of those with a lot of free time at the moment and am able to be quite fast. But I strongly take to defend the position of anyone who has something essential in his/her life and as a result he/she just is unable to be 24/7 on the site. That is really okay and logical. But also, you know in tournaments sometimes even 15 minutes might decide a place at the end of the game if one of the players is on the time limit. And in the given game I am talking about we had about a week everyone in game time to finish our own turns. I am at 5 days left, another player X is at 4 days left and the other two players are about 2 days off the limit. I had a reminder I have to play my turn and logged in. And I see that the player X is having 5 days left now. Hmmm??? Well, I thought I was wrong and probably have remebered falsly. However, it happens for second time that he goes down to 4 days left and the next time I had a turn, he is at 5 days again! This time I am 100% sure I remembered correctly. How can one's clock go backwards?! And how I have seen this only in games of Catan and Ticket to ride and not in any of the other games I play? No logic! How only a handful of players happen to be "going backward in time"? My only view of this is there is some time-zone abusing. I do not know how it should work, but see no other option as is never goes like this for the average player. Some people have probably find a way to cheat the time system with the idea to obviously clock out the other if there is the chance to. And in tournaments when you have smaller time-limit, it would actually be extremely valuable as you can take a place or two higher finish in games with more players involved. So, better chances in the tournaments in general. My asking is how or would anyone be able to check the player X's play dates and playtime? Is there a way to expose this kind of "clocking" as I am calling it? Because it is ridiculous way of taking advantage.
And to add more to the situation I was in couple days ago - the player X accused another player of our Catan table of lying about resources!!! Not only he was abusing the game clock, he was also trying to make a scene during the game for something that is within the rules! In Catan no one is obliged to tell exactly how much of a given resource he/she is holding. So asking about that is out of question. But player X not just accused the other player of "hiding information", he also tried to make it look like this third player is lying to us. Absolutely cruel as he was already using some kind of cheating to make it looks like someone else is doing it. This is so low moral, I have no words to even tell how it feels. Like we are all clowns and he is the Mind himself making fun of his pawns. On top of that, you cannot even report him in the system here as I saw no option for neither maniulation of game time, nor option for accusing falsly another player of not being fair.
This player's toxic behaviour ended up as I just asked him in the game chat about all he was doing and how his moves towards us were fishy and abusive and he responded with "haha, I am not CHEACHING", clearly trying to make us look stupid about even addressing this to him. What should I do so he gets the punishment he was asking for? I can provide link to the game table so an admin can revise his action. And again, if that is possible, check his play time and potential abusing of the time in some manner. Unfortunately, this is not the only time I have seen this kind of behaviour, this is just the latest one that made it enough for me. Sorry about all of this, but it is making me feel powerless to do anything against as I cannot even properly report him! Such toxic players are ruining tournament game here and there and always go unpunished. Why it has to be?! One's behaviour is something to be revised when he/she is abusive towards others and even refusing to take their actions seriously!
