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Godsmurf wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 11:37 I recently had a close game of Lost Cities. It was turn-based but we were both online and played the whole thing live. Then with 1 turn to go - literally 1 click - it was clear I had won, and my opponent quit and proceeded to let the timer run out for the remaining 10 days. He kept playing other games meanwhile, so he had to actively ignore our game for the full 10 days just to not have to accept a regular loss.

Just to illustrate how incredibly frail some people's egos are, and how they'll do anything to avoid bruising it. The mind boggles.

This was table * btw.

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FrankJones wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 17:39 I just saw one of the most epic games of all time, quite possibly the greatest single game of a specific game, that went 3x as many rounds as a typical game would go, and the results were neutralized by a final round concession.

It would take hours to recreate the end-game state and stats. I might do it anyway just because I am fascinated by the game that was played. I wasn't even in the game !

ChiefPointThief wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 18:17 I can’t recall, was it mentioned somewhere in this thread why stats can’t still be displayed when games are conceded.

ChiefPointThief wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 18:17

FrankJones wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 17:39 I just saw one of the most epic games of all time, quite possibly the greatest single game of a specific game, that went 3x as many rounds as a typical game would go, and the results were neutralized by a final round concession.

It would take hours to recreate the end-game state and stats. I might do it anyway just because I am fascinated by the game that was played. I wasn't even in the game !

I can’t recall, was it mentioned somewhere in this thread why stats can’t still be displayed when games are conceded.

ChiefPointThief wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 18:17

FrankJones wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 17:39 I just saw one of the most epic games of all time, quite possibly the greatest single game of a specific game, that went 3x as many rounds as a typical game would go, and the results were neutralized by a final round concession.

It would take hours to recreate the end-game state and stats. I might do it anyway just because I am fascinated by the game that was played. I wasn't even in the game !

I can’t recall, was it mentioned somewhere in this thread why stats can’t still be displayed when games are conceded.

Ceaseless wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 17:56

Godsmurf wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 11:37 I recently had a close game of Lost Cities. It was turn-based but we were both online and played the whole thing live. Then with 1 turn to go - literally 1 click - it was clear I had won, and my opponent quit and proceeded to let the timer run out for the remaining 10 days. He kept playing other games meanwhile, so he had to actively ignore our game for the full 10 days just to not have to accept a regular loss.

Just to illustrate how incredibly frail some people's egos are, and how they'll do anything to avoid bruising it. The mind boggles.

This was table * btw.

*Moderation Edit: please do not use the Forums to call out specific tables or players by name. The Forums should remain a general discussion.

While frustrating to deal with, I will note this would not be what conceding with one move to go would look like, in fact this would be what refusing to concede with one move to go would look like.

tbhp wrote: ↑22 January 2026, 14:30 Well they could display some stats but the score itself would be rather meaningless to display, since generally a score doesn't tell you the whole story until the end of a game.

Then there's the problem that the stats of that game may be added to that player's general stats, or that game's general stats, which would be misleading since it wasn't a completed game.

tbhp wrote: ↑22 January 2026, 14:35

Ceaseless wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 17:56

Godsmurf wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 11:37 I recently had a close game of Lost Cities. It was turn-based but we were both online and played the whole thing live. Then with 1 turn to go - literally 1 click - it was clear I had won, and my opponent quit and proceeded to let the timer run out for the remaining 10 days. He kept playing other games meanwhile, so he had to actively ignore our game for the full 10 days just to not have to accept a regular loss.

Just to illustrate how incredibly frail some people's egos are, and how they'll do anything to avoid bruising it. The mind boggles.

This was table * btw.

*Moderation Edit: please do not use the Forums to call out specific tables or players by name. The Forums should remain a general discussion.

While frustrating to deal with, I will note this would not be what conceding with one move to go would look like, in fact this would be what refusing to concede with one move to go would look like.

The effect and probably the intention are exactly the same. It's conceding just with a different name.

If they didn't want to concede, they'd just have played their last move. Instead, not content with conceding the normal way, they decided to add days of suffering to the ordeal.