What's the deal with the constant dropping of games?

[madmanmorbo]

It seems like every time I try to link up for a game, 3 people will agree, and some dissenter will drop the game. I have to try to match 10-15 times before finding people who are actually trying to play.

is there some mechanic I'm unaware of? Someone trying to game the boardgamearena system by dropping or something *.
It's uncool.


*Moderator edit: please refrain from swearing on BGA, this is a family-friendly platform.

[TwoLambda]

Is it the same person who joins you and then drops the game?
If yes, you can just give them a dislike and you won't play with that person ever again.
If no, may it be your unstable wifi? I don't really know. You can try setting your karma preferences to maximum (>85%) to minimize the chance of droppers joining.

[ahaverkamp]

It is because when you sign up for a 2player game, you still often get included in a 3player game. Which you then decline....

[Jenn_P]

Hey, just wanted to say I think there are some people who specifically go on to do this. I’ve had times when there is someone (or two) who join my table over and over again and decline so quickly I can’t even see the start screen. And they will do this multiple times until I go and dislike them. This is from the POV of someone starting a table.

With that said, I am curious if setting my table parameters can ensure these folks (who when I look have relatively low karma) will mean they can’t even try to join my table? Or will this just mean they join over and over to then be automatically booted by my limitations - disrupting the start process until someone else gets the seat before them?

But yes. I have had a few occasions when I’ve just gone to another game to make a table and left AZUL until later.

[DoctorFianchetto]

Here's a pattern I see a lot.

> I'm in Play Now, I see Player X create a new table.
> I join the table.
> Immediately, Player X leaves and creates a new table.
> I join the new table.
> Immediately, Player X leaves and creates a new table.

It happens far too quickly for Player X to be doing it themselves, so it must be something the code is doing. But I can't explain what.

Another oddity is the same player with 4 or 5 of the same table open for the same game. Another quirk of the BGA code, I guess.