I'm losing because of disconnects... and I"m not the one disconnecting!

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19th October 2009, 09:18pm
#1
by shuttlechess92
California United States
Member Since: Jul 2008
Member Points: 1878

ok I will admit the live chess 2 is pretty sweet. But the disconnect feature, though intended to help save players who have bad internet connections, is absolutely killing players with good connections. Why? Becuase when they disconnect, they dont' lose any time, but whiel they're gone I might go off and do something else, only to find 5 minutes later that they had already moved and I lost 2 minutes on my clock!

 

when my opponent does this 15 times in a game - my timer goes to 10 seconds when he has 4 minutes. Now who's time is lost here?

Certainly I felt like I was the one who got disconnected. IN this case, I wish I was.

 

 

My suggestion is that the disconnect time delay be watered down to 10-15 seconds max. This way players have some time to get back into the game while the waiting player won't get bored and get distracted.

 

thanks,!

 

shuttlechess92

21st October 2009, 03:09pm
#2
by General-Lee
Elizabethtown United States
Member Since: Apr 2009
Member Points: 263

Hmmmmm................... Interesting idea. Idk what the solution is but i agree that penalizing those with good connections is bad.

21st October 2009, 03:13pm
#3
by erik
Mountain View, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 9959

this should now be fixed - their timer will keep going.

21st October 2009, 03:35pm
#4
by shuttlechess92
California United States
Member Since: Jul 2008
Member Points: 1878
erik wrote:

this should now be fixed - their timer will keep going.


Thanks!

24th October 2009, 11:50am
#5
by General-Lee
Elizabethtown United States
Member Since: Apr 2009
Member Points: 263

Good job erik :)

 

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