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BirdHeezy
7 years ago
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Punish players for multiple disconnects

It’s insanly frustrating when you’re winning, and the other player seems to disconnect by magic (quite frequently) instead of conceding. The loser force closes the game, then opens it right back up t...
  • Gabochido's avatar
    Gabochido
    7 years ago

    The only thing worse than people who disconnect instead of conceding are those who befriend a person who disconnected only to tell them that they are **** for having disconnected instead of properly losing.

    You know, punishing people like that would have pretty bad consequences given that this is a mobile game. People can get phone calls or have to handle other things in real life and not have time to click on the concede thing. They can also actually have bad internet connections and just disconnect without being able to do anything about it.

    Also, I don't know why you assume that they are planning to play another game. You should time it. It usually takes longer to reload the game than the amount of time out. It certainly takes much longer to reload the game than to just concede, then start another match so the usual action is to shut off their device in rage and do something else. To me, thinking that they rage quit is usually enough satisfaction to make up for the few seconds lost waiting for the game to finish.

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Gabochido
Seasoned Veteran
7 years ago

Sounds like a good idea, though I can see a couple of issues that could cause

- Automatically doing something unless you have a specific card, means you can't bluff that you might have that card. This was an issue in other games I've played where they implemented that and had to end up removing it, since bluffing is often a big part of card games.

- I've won many games against opponents who had the win, but played a card that lost them the game. For example, playing a card that causes hitting the block meter at the wrong moment, allowing me to retaliate, prevent the last bit of damage and get my damage through. Those wins, few as they may be, cause very memorable experiences and I would rather keep them in favour of occasionally losing a few seconds because my opponent wants to show me they "still had all theze".

Having a buffer timer is a thing that is implemented in other games and works well. I second that idea. (I doubt there will be any more development on this game though).

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TAllenSr
7 years ago

Here is one I forgot (it just happened to me): After playing VERY quickly all game, when it gets to the end, and they are about to deal a "death blow", they WAIT until the clock ticks ALL the way down before attacking. This time it was a Espresso Fiesta attack.

I don't know how you would make it fair, and I would not want it to effect their actual gameplay or matching, but it would be nice to have some sort of "Sportsmanship" or "Reputation" points that you could reward to / remove from other players when they do * like this. Then you would know the community reputation of the player.

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    TAllenSr
    7 years ago

    Ha! This board censored out the word C R A P. Too funny.

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