R.Q.L. Proposals.

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R.Q.L’s are far too common on the site; rage quit losers.

Here are some reasonable solutions to deal with players who when lost just let their time run out.

Solution one: Ban the IP address and accounts to these players. Forcing them to change IP address by VPN or something will give them a higher lag.

Solution two: in Risk! Global Domination, players who time stall get extra rating taken from them. Similarly, this could be done to players who time stall. Take extra rating from them as punishment. For example, after checking the specific case for every 20 seconds they time stall their opponent, you could take away another -20 elo from their rating. That way the players who time stall in a rapid game or classical game with someone will be punished the most severely and lose hundreds of elo.

Solution three: If someone reports time stalling on an opponent, an engine can check the evaluation and time they stalled mid game where if the engine shows the time stalling player is lost and more than 20 seconds has past without a move made, the win is automatically given to the player who is not time stalling.

The ways to deal with people doing stuff like this is to either snuff them all out as soon as they appear permanently, or make the action of time stalling so inconvenient and punishing that it naturally deters people from doing it.

Frankly, lichess has a much better system in place to deal with time stalling with the claim win system.

Furthermore, when I played on a guest account without logging in, I got significantly less time stalling and cheating in games, which should have the opposite effect when playing on unrated anonymous accounts. The fact that they are more prevalent in rated accounts implies the system is not doing much to deter people from doing it.


Yours truly,

twosdale