[GO] [Rules] Rank Restricted Games

[hecter]

This has been suggested many times. O and by the way, it's worse when you're a private and some stupid Colonel joins you game and murders you. That really sucks.

[beav77]

haha ya i've been on that side of the shaft too

[wacicha]

if a colonel joins your game and takes out a private he wins a great 9 points

wah hoo but if you take him out you when 30 or more points

I never join games I do not want people thinking i pick on the new people, but there are alot of new people who join mine for my points. lol i move from colonel to capt and back on a weekly basis it seems. all part of the game I play to play and let anyone take my points.

Also you do not get better unless you play better players

[wicked]

Well said Wacicha. This suggestion has already been rejected.

[DanOfWar]

I've noticed that a lot of higher rank players won't play public games because they don't want to end up losing a ton of points to lower ranks and also just don't want constant problems with deadbeats. To create private games and invite everybody over certain rank is too time consuming and too much nusiance mail for players.

An option on game set up to limit entries to a specific rank (for a really evenly matched game) or for 'ranks above' for those who don't mind playing within a certain range of ranks. I don't know if this is technically possible, but it would certainly be a great way of challenging a wider section of players than you can by setting up private games without the worry that you are going to end up playing too many people at a rank you don't find challenging or enjoyable.

You could also have 'ranks below' for lower rank players who are perhaps fairly new and want a more 'friendly' level of game without some predator colonel coming in and ripping them to shreds.

This would solve your dilema of to ban or not to ban newbies from team games as the originator of the game could specify the ranks allowed.

[hecter]

It's on the *To-Do* list already. Been suggested many many times.

[DanOfWar]

OK, sorry, I did search to do list first but coulodn't find it



DoW

[Lev306]

I figured it would be nice to add a minimum rank/ maximum rank setting for games. It would allow players to target players of certain rank to play against. It would be particularly helpful for those players seeking to climb the scoreboards or to filter out potentially unwanted nublings from joing games.

What do you guys think? Discuss.

[hecter]

This has been suggested before, and right now they have/are in the process of hiding team games from new recruits so…

[john1099]

wow, hecter changed his Display picture!

[coolpsp]

i think there should be groups where only certain people can join for example

beginner=only unranked/private/Sergent can join
intermediate=only Sergent/lieutenant/captains can join
professionals= only Major/Colonel/generals can join

*this would be an option you tick*
*if you move up/or down in rankings you still stay in the game*

this would stop deadbeats joining games with professionals/intermediates and not make a move and this would also stop pro's joining game with beginners for the points and these are two major problems.

how will this work

Well at the start the person who creates a game as normal can tick for example i would like this game to be grouped

[s.xkitten]

would you be able to make an "ungrouped" game that lets anyone in?

[larry holland]

i dont like the it i like playing good player of all kind i even partner with some of them but if you had groups of deadbeats and nondeadbeats i would go for that

[yeti_c]

Also your "group" would have to be defaulted through when you created (and then greyed) so that you can't create a game "out of your league".

C.

[coolpsp]

would you be able to make an "ungrouped" game that lets anyone in?

Yes you would still be able to mkae ungrouped games

[RobinJ]

Good idea. It's not fair that there are only the elite games. Personally, I am even starting to look nervously over my shoulder at those below me now that I have finally reached captain

[wouat]

what about a restriction on joining games based on the negatives feedback ?

For instance, a player with a certain amount of negative feedbacks, something like 15-20, should not be able to join any public games. That could avoid games screwed up by just 1 player (what can annoy up to 5 other players !!! )
That way negative feedbacks may have a real weight on accounts and may relieve some of the administrators' work or at least not penalize players while administrators have a long list of "negative feedbacks players" to deal with.
Moreover, having a limit of negative feedbacks can discourage people to create new accounts just to annoy other players.
So, once the limit is reached then the account should be banned; of course, there should be a kind of warning email sent to that player before that limit is reached.
For instance, at 10 neg. feedbacks, the account receives a notice email saying that if there's 10 more negative feedbacks then the account will be banned. That way, the owner may send an email explaining what is happening with his account (which might have been hacked or something else).

Of course, you can see people who take advantage out of this limit and spam negative feedbacks on "good" players. That's why i thought about a log of player's leaving negative feedbacks. So that if someone creates 20 accounts just to leave negative feedbacks, those negative feedbacks should not be taken in account for the limit and of course those accounts should be banned too. So, you can check this kind of account regarding the number of its games played and its negative feedbacks left.

I hope this suggestion is not too long to read but i really think it can improve the fun in game and on CC in general.

[dominationnation]

thats just mean. what if someone got a lot of feedback for deatbeating but he was in a hospital for a while. then he has a bunch of neative feedback and cant play any public games no

[wouat]

well.... the limit could be a counter that is relative to the negative feedback but not the number of neg. feedbacks itself. I mean that counter can be reseted after a while or by an administrator if the reason given by the owner is good enough.

For instance, let's say you accumulated too many neg. fb. then your account has been banned after the warning emails sent to you... because you were unable to get access to CC. In that case you can send an explanation email to an administrator who can check if your neg. fb are justified or not.

And it is a kind of the same system used by most of free email hosting; After a while of non-active use, your email account is suspended, and sometimes simply deleted.

[bilbo]

If you are able to select only ranks the same as yours or higher can join
no more dead beats no more playing the same player with two or more names and a fair game losing or winning the same points as the other players.
Or has this been asked before

Bilbo
now where did I put that ring.......

[Gnome de Guerre]

It's already been suggested, old chap; kindly read the sticky at the top of this forum, please.

[wolfhound01]

I think there should be a button that makes it so newbs cant join your game or there cant be more than 75% of the people playing the game be newbs this button should be in with the start your own game options. there are to many newbs flooding on to this site i made two games and there both filled with newbs its frustrating

[hecter]

No! They already can't join team games (which I was against) and now you want to make it so that they can't join any games at all!? Seriously! We are trying to attract people to this site so that they can buy a premium membership, not drive them away because they can't join any games.

[wolfhound01]

its a good idea it wont drive people away alot of people dont care about it but there alot of people who dont like to play newbs because they dont know how to play the game and the game becomes boring

[john1099]

I believe that a better solution would be to buy a premium membership, and post in the "call-outs" you want to have a private game with some good players~!
That way- no noobs!
geez, i'm on a roll tonight..