one more setting to help avoid "pre" low karma players.

[Eleon]

Hello,

While avoiding low karma player avoidance in the setting is helpful and works a lot of the time, there is still the issue of new accounts (starting at Karama 100) still getting into games and just never playing again once they start to lose.

I would suggest a setting be added of how long since the account was created, or how often it was played. I would be happy to avoid anyone that has an account less than 6 months old (as I figure 6 months will show their true Karma value).

Or it might be easier to start new accounts at like 70 karma, so I can avoid when with the 75 percent or better Karma, Or better yet add in a "only 100 percent Karma setting" and start new players at 90 percent Karma.

Some games are hard to start up, so when I do get a game that goes for a month or so and to have people just quit, makes me feel like I wasted a month, and that feeling kind of sucks.

[dschingis27]

Hi, new BGA accounts already start only with 75% Karma AFAIK. And you can only particpate in more turn-based games if you already succesfully finished a few turn-based games. (I think you can only attend one or two turn-based games as a new account and this number slightly increases for every turn-based game you finish.)

There will always be people who find BGA interesting for a few weeks and reliably come back to it but then loose interest or go through real-life issues or whatever. Not much we can do about it.

[nmego]

You can combine the 75% karma setting with 100+elo. If you're looking to avoid new players. That should give you a better chance in games where you have that elo criteria.

Especially since you don't lose rating if you're under 100

[Eleon]

hmm the 100 Elo might be the trick, just hard to do with the BETA games as no one has much rank in them.

I guess I am just frustrated on having to kill yet another game after waiting for a player for a week before killing it (after having for a month).

Thanks,

[Cullich]

There's a setting for >85% karma, which is what I use. It'll warn you that it discludes new members, which of course is what you're going for.

I don't use the "simple lobby" so don't know if that works there.

I don't think having 100 ELO necessarily means anything, especially if someone is already an expert at some game before coming here. And if someone happens to just stink at a game, they may never hit 100. So I don't see this as a sign of a player's reliability at the site.