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danielvictor
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Final situation in games where someone has quit

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So somebody quit in our game of Tzolkin,but two of us decided to play on.Obviously,we knew the end result would be a joint win for player ratings,but when I looked at the final situation after the game it was 1 point per player.
Previously,you could see the final points situation,I think ? I can't keep watching until the other player makes their final move.I don't want to replay the whole game to see what happened. It is sometimes hard to work out what the points would have been.
Is this a change ? If it is,then it is a bad one IMO. Please make it easier to see the final points scores in void games.
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nik592
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Re: Final situation in games where someone has quit

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When not all parties are playing any longer, the final result is meaningless and so not reported. While the quit players continue to make moves, I assume they are just set to make an easily repeatable move (eg. draw cards in TTR). This means you're not really playing anymore, so what's the point of seeing how the score comes out? When I was younger, I used to play board games by myself - I'd set up multiple players and move them around. But because I was a kid, and I wanted my favourite colour piece to win, I'd move the other pieces suboptimally to engineer that. I had fun, but the score didn't mean anything, and I knew it even then. This isn't quite that, the quit players don't care if you do better or not, they just take default actions, which could help or hinder you (or have no effect).

To address your other point, this hasn't changed in the time I have been a member of BGA (almost 2 years) and probably longer than that.
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danielvictor
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Re: Final situation in games where someone has quit

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One or even more players quitting can still leave a competitive situation between the remaining players - who will have invested time and effort into the g you really ame and may still want to see how it pans out.I nearly always like to play on to see if any of the other players wants to aswell.
After writing that I realised that the difference may have been that my previous game had been a non-tournament game whereas this was a tournament game. So apologies for that,and I was able to work out what the unofficial result may have been,but it still would be nice to see it somewhere.Remember also that a player could quit just before the end of a game -or more likely the time might run out-and then you really might get a normal result - if you were allowed to see it.
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