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Proper behaviour
Jimmy V.:
Hi all,
We have been informed that a few players have had bad manners in the last few weeks. Although in minority these players clearly don't stick to the Happy Meeple spirit and we do not want to tolerate this.
We endeavour to offer a place to play board games online and have fun in a nice environment.
We want to make clear that the use of swear words is absolutely forbidden on the platform. Playing moves very slowly on purpose (generally when losing) to annoy the opponent is also extremely bad manners that we do not tolerate.
The range of sanction goes from temporary ban in chat to account deletion.
I know that games can be frustrating at times. If you have a tendency to lose temper, please buy a giant meeple plush and kick it hard to relieve the stress when needed! :) This will be much better than throwing your anger at your opponent.
Thanks very much for your understanding!
Nicolas Guibert.
Guest 130293 :
I'm pretty new here and just trying to learn how to play these games. It's very discouraging to try to start a game and then be joined by a very experienced player. It seems unsportsmanlike for a high level player to target new people. It's called farming newbs on other sites. I was surprised to see it is not only accepted here, but even admin join in this practice.
I think people should have to play others close to their own level.
Jimmy V.:
I fully understand your concern.
When Happy Meeple project was started, there was a matching system in place (you could not see the other players, there was no inn). In online play, you have always been matched with a bot with similar rating to yours (and it is still the case) which is what you are asking for. It was my intention to develop a few more lines of code so that the same applied to human play. However it is not as easy as it seems because of a few other parameters.
Firstly, lots of players want to play against other humans. Because we don't have a huge pool of players yet, restricting players matching by rating would make it even more difficult. And noone really wants that at this stage. When we have many more players, we can think about this option again. It would certainly raise other concerns (what if friends want to play together?) but probably nothing that cannot be solved by a programmer. And to finish on this, I may simply implement a "rating filter" when opening a table so that you can choose to play with a certain range of players. If I do, you'll have to use that filter every time you ask for a table though which may not be very practical.
Another important factor is that most of our games have an important part of luck. Which makes it no so easy for good players to "farm" beginners. You are actually the first player complaining about farming, but I can tell you that I read many times experienced players complaing about being matched with low ratings because they are afraid of losing a lot of points in one game. The rating system (ELO) is such that it is difficult to abuse the system. In other online games, I know that farming can be a big issue. But again, because most of our games have a big random element to them, a strong player will often be beaten by a beginner (that is not true for Keltis Or and Siberia Card though).
Finally, there are two solutions to your problem.
1) The best one it to practice in training mode until you feel ready to dive into online play.
2) You can also go to the inn and never open a table (=never request a game), only join existing tables. This way, you will only join players that have a rating that suits you.
I hope this answers your questions. Thanks for letting us know! It is important to us to read about your concerns. This helps us tremendously to improve the platform for our players. If you don't tell us, we many never know.
Mike M.:
I'd have to say for me that I am extremely reluctant to sit down with a new player. The games, as said, DO have a fair amount of luck involved, and therefore the 'more experienced' player can easily lose a lot of points due to luck of the draw, while the flip side in winning yields so few points.
So on that note: Welcome new player, I am always happy to see people expanding thier gaming horizons. And rest assured that most 'experienced' players will not 'newb farm' on this site. Quite the contrary.
Happy Meeple-ing! ;D
Guest 131818 :
--- Quote from: Happy Meeple on 11/04/16, 09:03pm ---
We have been informed that a few players have had bad manners in the last few weeks...
Playing moves very slowly on purpose (generally when losing) to annoy the opponent is also extremely bad manners that we do not tolerate.
Nicolas Guibert.
--- End quote ---
It's wrong to assume someone is playing slowly, when losing, to annoy the opponent. Maybe they have a horrible hand and can't figure out what in the world they are going to do with it.
I just went through a game like this. It was a horrible experience. One of these 6 dot black dice people joined my table, so it was particularly flustering and made it even harder for me to think.
I came in here to ask about it, and the first thing I see, is someone accusing a person who might be going through the same distressing thing I just went through, of trying to annoy the opponent Of course a lower level person is likely to play slower than a higher ranked if they have a confusing hand and particularly if they are facing a formidable opponent!
It just seems like a pretty hostile view to take of newbies. Why do you let these high rank people play against people who are much lower level? Maybe it's bad manners on their part, not the newb's part.
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