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Punish Quitters

• VanHalenLover 1,422 Posts

  Tue, Aug 31 2010 11:53 AM

  CRH,

  I agree that the option to resume a dropped round and resume in multi-player mode is the golden answer here, but I just don;t think it is going to happen. The technology is already in place for MPC matches, and would be a fairly easy transition. The reason it hasn't happened already eludes me, but the fact that it has not suggests to me that it isn't going to happen.

  WGT, are you able to comment on this option?

  I am a little confused by this:

  CharlemagneRH:

  My system was designed to make quitters unable to avoid having bad rounds being included in their averages... which is an entirely different issue than sandbagging.

  This is EXACTLY one of the issues described by the term  'sand-bagging'. They are two different issues, I agree, but one of the main vehicles of sandbagging is quitting. If the quitting option is cleaned up, it will also help to prevent a percentage of SB. I understand you are looking at it separately, but any solution to Q addresses SB as a welcomed side-affect.

• x1524807 776 Posts

  Tue, Aug 31 2010 7:45 PM

  Faterson:

  (x1524807, if you do not consider the last person on the course to be "forfeiting" a round when he/she quits it, then that's fine. The cardinal problem with WGT.com's 1st failed attempt at implementing reputation tracking, was that they did consider that to be a forfeit.)

  what is so difficult to understand. if you push the disconnect, you forfeit, if you are the only person left in the game you are the WINNER.

• Faterson 2,902 Posts

  Tue, Aug 31 2010 8:24 PM

  It's not about "winners" or "losers", ma'am. I'm saying that when WGT unsuccessfully introduced reputation tracking for 1 day the first time around, they considered "the only person left in the game" a loser as well. Or in other words, WGT treated the quitters, and the player abandoned by quitters, in exactly the same way, not distinguishing among them.

  That just can't be, can it? We had specifically warned WGT here in the forums, also in the week leading up to that product update, not to implement such an absurdity. They ignored that and went ahead anyway. And then recalled the feature 24 hours later.  

• VanHalenLover 1,422 Posts

  Tue, Aug 31 2010 8:36 PM

  Snaike:

  If I were a betting man, and I'll give you 20:1 that I'm not, I willing to bet that there will be no truthful response to the direct question.  Probably more obfuscations and misdirections, I would imagine.

  We have a winner !!!!!!!!

• x1524807 776 Posts

  Wed, Sep 1 2010 5:21 AM

  Faterson:

  That just can't be, can it? We had specifically warned WGT here in the forums,

  so you are smarter than wgt, who cares

  It's not about "winners" or "losers", ma'am. I'm saying that when WGT unsuccessfully introduced re***tion tracki  

  tn

   It is about winners and losers. By posting your wins, losses and forfeits, the quitting factor would be reduced by a large margin. You do not get quitting in match play because WGT tracks your wins and losses, and publishes those on your profile. now add your forfeits to that info, put it out where everybody can see it, and shzaam, quitting will take a nose dive, THAT IS THE POINT

   

   

   

• Faterson 2,902 Posts

  Wed, Sep 1 2010 5:44 AM

  Yes, if quitting by the last person abandoned on the course by quitters, is not considered a "forfeit", then your plan would work, x1524807. The trouble is, the last time around WGT did consider it a forfeit. It's important to warn WGT not to make the same mistake again, because that single mistake totally destroys the entire concept of "reputation tracking".

• x1524807 776 Posts

  Wed, Sep 1 2010 3:57 PM

  Faterson:

  It's important to warn WGT not to make the same mistake again, because that single mistake totally destroys the entire concept of "reputation tracking".

  I say we form a march on WGT and warn them, lol

• murducas 65 Posts

  Wed, Sep 15 2010 3:33 AM

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• stoneorchid 2 Posts

  Fri, May 27 2011 7:31 AM

  why won't WGT give us a "black list" ability..so we can add names to a list containing people we never want to play again..accepting no "invites" or mistakenly inviting them

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Fri, May 27 2011 8:27 AM

  stoneorchid:

  why won't WGT give us a "black list" ability..so we can add names to a list containing people we never want to play again..accepting no "invites" or mistakenly inviting them

  Obviously WGT considers it less important than not fixing putting from the fringe, friend updates during a game causing meter lag, and/or multi accounts.