The intent is the issue. If one has problems, one should apologise or explain the reason for the missed turns when one is back on, and no-one can complain. All it needs is a "sorry, lost connection" and everyone's happy. It's the "not playing any more because I'm losing" approach that's not within the rules.
The grey area is asking permission to deadbeat and getting agreement from the other player(s) - but presumably if all agree then they would not be reported.
Not trying to be an ass here but I think you should not post on stuff you have no idea about clangfield.
If I were to report every people that deadbeat on speed game without saying a word I'll be filling a tons of reports, definitely more than one per week.
Look at this one
sditulli for example. 90% turns taken. I believe the only difference with jacobsgold is that sditulli play 1vs1 while jacobsgold play polymorph. Both play tons of speeds, both play trench.
Now, is what jacobsgold did on the game described on the OP a nice thing ? Maybe not that much, but even if it was intentionnal, please note that it happens all the time, every single day.
The grey area is asking permission to deadbeat and getting agreement from the other player(s) - but presumably if all agree then they would not be reported.
This is the nice area not the grey one. The grey one is playing speed game. Everyone deadbeat speed game, sometimes, , not intentionnally. I deadbeated more than 1 speed game without wanting to do so,and I've deadbeated way more speed game intentionnally. That is the way it is.
I am not saying the OP may not have a case, because I didn't and won't bother checking jacobsgold games, but what you are saying, clangfield, is wrong. That is not how speed games works.
Like I said, time and place to deadbeat. At the first sign of struggle, he's gone. The reason I created this post is because it's against the rules. If you don't think it's fair, talk to the mods about changing the rules. 16% missed turns is freakishly high. It's equivalent to a child flipping the board because he is losing.
As I said before, I've played him quite often, I know he doesn't just deadbeat at the first "sign of struggle". You think it is the case, please research his games, and find many occurence of him deadbeating at the first "sign of struggle". He may deadbeat a bit early times to times, but, again, as someone playing many speed games, I totally understand that sometimes you get pissed at losing 5 games in a row with shitty dice and just say "f*ck it" and close the game on the 6th games with shitty dice and deadbeat without saying a word. Not saying it is what happened, just saying it happens often, and one example is definitely not enough to say
jacobsgold is deadbeating too often.
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 5:08 pm