Karma -4 for running out of time on Turnbased is too low

[Purkrabi]

When playing real time game, you loose either -10 or -20 karma when you run out of time. Most of the cases you run out of time because of too long waiting to be qeued in Arena or lost internet connection.

However there are plenty of players who ruin tournament games by registering and not playing. And loosing -4 Karma is nothing. So there is NO WAY of dissalowing these players to register and ruin another tournament.
Please set Karma rules -10 and -20 same for tournament as it is for real-time games. Otherwise tournaments are all ruined.

[Ceaseless]

So it's not turn based, but tournaments you're talking about?

[Purkrabi]

Yes tournaments. I do not understand why there is such low karma penalty when someone registers for tournament and thend not play. It ruins experience for whole tournament.

[Fuchur]

When playing real time game, you loose either -10 or -20 karma when you run out of time. Most of the cases you run out of time because of too long waiting to be qeued in Arena or lost internet connection.

However there are plenty of players who ruin tournament games by registering and not playing. And loosing -4 Karma is nothing. So there is NO WAY of dissalowing these players to register and ruin another tournament.
Please set Karma rules -10 and -20 same for tournament as it is for real-time games. Otherwise tournaments are all ruined.

Hi Purkrabi,

some reasons why "normal" players might fail to play in time :
1) in normal games you gain some time for every turn you made. This isn't so in tournaments.
2) Therefore tournament games provide you with a bigger time cushion when you start. During the first moves BGA therefore places these tournament games as least urgent to take a move.
3) Depending on the time-zones of the other players it can be impossible to react in a few hours. If this happens your time cushion will be gone in a few moves.

There might be players who join tournaments in order to "ruin" them (i doubt that this is a major problem but who knows ?) -- let's call them TROLLs.

What will happen when BGA increases the penalty of being too lame ?

I guess you will loose the "normal" players who won't take the risk of getting their reputation spoiled by bad luck with time-zones.
AND you will have a higher proportion of TROLLs ruining even more of your tournaments (it seems that it is rather easy to raise your karma if you're willing to play a lot of quick games).

Good luck with your next tournaments !