I do see how real life events can cause you to resign and auto-resign. However, it badly impacts game-play of the other players. Therefore, a penalty against auto-resignation should be created. Perhaps reducing their elo? What about increasing wait time to start a new game: you cannot start a new game for a day after your game ends(not for L2). This would increase incentive for L2 a little bit, and prevent people from joining games and auto-resigning.

square wrote:I do see how real life events can cause you to resign and auto-resign. However, it badly impacts game-play of the other players. Therefore, a penalty against auto-resignation should be created. Perhaps reducing their elo? What about increasing wait time to start a new game: you cannot start a new game for a day after your game ends(not for L2). This would increase incentive for L2 a little bit, and prevent people from joining games and auto-resigning.

I feel like the people who auto-resign are the people who don't care about elo. Increasing wait time could work, but isn't the problem that they're inactive anyways?

As much as I hate autoresigners, I don't think there's anything we can do about it. Unless we want to make it global law that "He who doth beginneth a game of Subterfuge shalt never fail to play the game until said player hath lost his or her queen without the presence of a princess, or until a player in said game hath achieved the goal of '200 Neptunium'"
And then we enforce it by chaining people to their phones and water boarding them if they ever look away.

roadkiehl wrote:And then we enforce it by chaining people to their phones and water boarding them if they ever look away.

DEVS! Where is this feature?!