DBurkeG wrote:
dcr66 wrote:
This happens far too often! New players join the site and join many leagues. After a few weeks of "fun" they disappear leaving hundreds of active games behind with many of those as league games. The most recent one is spiller, he has many automoves in league games already.
Can we kill them off? Treat it like a crash due to fire damage and give no extra point to the opponent(s). I think it is safe to kill them off if they automove 5 times in a game.
I cant get my head around killing them off...
How about, after each auto-move, that player auto-moves one day sooner, until they are auto-moving every day. OR, for the less merciful, you get auto-moved everyday after your first auto-move.
That type of automove system will be harder to put in place. Just kill them off. Do you think they really care if they have not login for a week in a 3 day timeout league?? If you know you will be unavailable, don't join!
I think it will be easier and quicker for the webmasters to implement if we set simple limits. If we say they must finish 50+ games, membership more than 100 days old, 30+ wins, maximum active game limits of 150, etc.; they can implement it fairly quickly thru database queries. Now if we want to have extra comboboxes like someone was suggesting earlier in this thread, it will take them longer to implement.
I have to protest the membership thing. I know I may be in the minority, but I'm pretty bloody fast when it comes to finishing things, and this sort of limit would cut me off at the knees. It would take FOREVER to get to 50+ or 100+ games without the mass games given from leagues. I think 50 finished games is fairly reasonable, but 100 day membership just means it's the old folks club and no new blood is ever allowed. I would say if you want faster games, then perhaps implementing a fast 2 day minimum play option might be good for the people who check often. *shrug* I know the maximum active game limit should be 150...I've joined many leagues and I still max out at 107. (And I check at minimum 2x a day, if not more if people are online.)
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