Aviela wrote: ↑07 October 2023, 05:21
Fuchur wrote: ↑05 October 2023, 10:05
buu441 wrote: ↑26 September 2023, 15:27
Reading throw the comments, it is honestly amazing and mind boggling how the blame somehow falls on the person who kicks a slow player and not the one playing slowly.
It depends on the situation.
I've just encountered this in a tournament (AZUL) : One player (who had probably a bad time zone) was slightly in the red (about 4 hours) and that since 2 weeks maybe -- so everybody had a lot of time to decide whether to kick him or to let the game go to a naturel end.
Entering the last round the player who was going to eat a lot of tokens, causing him to lose more than 10 points, decided to kick the late player.
So yes, in this situation i entirely blame the "kicker" for destroying the game, just to avoid him losing the game.
Based on what you said, I have to agree. The person who decided to kick them was in the wrong. Again, this is only based on what you said.
I have not had an issue with live games; however, I have chosen to skip a players turn and basically end the game. 4 + Days in the red was getting frustrating and I'd rather just end it than sit and hope for their return. I do a lot of turn-based games because I have a hectic schedule, but 99.9% of the time I am making a move before my time is up. I had a small issue with internet connectivity while on vacation, but didn't go beyond 4 hours in the red.
This toxic behaviour seems pretty common :
ChiefPointThief wrote: ↑23 September 2023, 16:47
The best way I've found to avoid this problem is to not play fast turn based games.
Some time back I was creating fast turn based games daily. In almost all of my games someone fell into the red. After about a week or so when the first batch was finishing I noticed the games I was in last place finished but all the games I was winning the losing player timed out the person over time.
It is a lose lose situation. When you are winning someone can time out one of the other players and when you are losing and don't time out someone you just lose. This made me disinterested in playing the remaining games. For the games in early progress that I still had left I even started messaging players asking them to watch their time. Now it felt like I was babysitting people. Overall playing like this isn't fun. I stay away from tournaments w/ fast settings as well. There are some tournaments that can go the duration with like 20% of games actually played to completion.
I can't remember the exact speed of these games. But I don't have this problem at all w/ 4 moves per day or lower.
It is totally okay to throw somebody out if he's late. What i can't stand is to let the game go on, with the intention either to win, either to destroy the table in the last minute.