You do not get points back if your country goes in CD.

Good! Nice rule.

That's a fine policy and all, but it begs the question what about when you run out of points? Are you supposed to multi or just quit the site forever?

And that begs the question of why you should be allowed to play again. If you managed to work your way down to zero points with an extremely forgiving system, you've been pretty damn irresponsible and disrespectful. What's changed now that should make anyone want to accept you in a game?

Oh Sy....why would you do such a thing?

Maybe we need special games with 0 bet for those people to prove themselves worthy of another shot (that shot being like 1, maybe 5 )

Also: better than multi's Sandgoose.

At least the mods can award additional points if needed.
But make sure to find a sitter if you can't play your games.

I would argue that's it is not better than multis. If you CD a game, it means you have missed multiple phases and your power is usually in precarious shape as a result. If you get banned, the game gets extended and the power is left in its exact spot, no turns missed and easier to take over.

Steph baby, the sandgoose account didn't multi. Maybe if everyone could get the story straight that would be great! Go choke on ur moms cock lol

Hey Goose.. That sort of language may not be moderated much on webdip, but I for one am not interested in reading such pointless and uncalled for verbal drivel on this forum. Trite vulgarities are easy to regurgitate.. why not try for more inventive, less offensive banter?

@Mapu: the problem with multis is we don't catch them instantly, they may have successfully cheated and won a couple of games before we catch them.

With a cder they mess up 2 turns, not a full game.

@Sandgoose: If you a appeal a case, then an admin will reinvestigate the case, if he feels like you were wrongly banned then he will unban you.

The mods almost never make mistakes and are very lenient. They gave you multiple chances and you cheated multiple times. You have yet to cheat here, so we wont take action against you, but stop trying to justify your actions on webdip, you cheated, you got caught, you got punished. End of story.

@ Leif_Syverson : +1

I already tried to appeal and I've already examined the case. Last I checked everyone keeps throwing around multi multi multi, I'm only defending myself. My own brother sent an email to the mods to verify so as far as I'm concerned I don't care.

You can imagine how pissed anyone would be

Exactly, you appealed the case and lost, which suggest the mods didn't believe your story, and so I don't either.

Troll-la-la-la....

@synapse, you'll have to play a lot of 1 v1 games for a point each and win them to gain back your points.

Or you could take over some CDs they cost less here than they are worth so it's a good investment. Especially ppsc games.

Oli please lock this thread, things are getting too far-fetched and pointless.

I would prefer this thread just dies because no one replies to this nonsense.

@Sandgoose: Please refrain from your strong language. This is not a kids-site (but there are quite a lot of younger players around), but usually a thread goes totally off-topic if someone gets attacked that hard (as proved by this thread). It does not help the conversation and makes you look silly. In a game you might use such a language to enforce some reaction from your players, but there is no need for such language on the forums.

PS: On a positive side this remembered me that I really should add some explanation about this on the rules or feature-page.

Hahahaha ... Pointless ... Lucas podolski, you are a clever guy!

What happens if CD and then go on to win or draw?

For example if you CD and lose = 0 but CD and win = normal points, then you are effectively punishing players for losing.

Otherwise you are punishing players for 1 CD even when it might not affect the outcome of the game. If I CD once and go on to solo win how do you justify taking the points away?

And to clarify, I didn't realise how freaking long those WWIV games go on for, which is the reason for my CD's. I can't be available every day for 3 months.

Synapse,
to be fair, we have a feature right for that issue:

you, as every user, have received a similar message before joining the game


"
Looking at our stats this game might take (roughly) XXX months to complete.

Are you sure you want to join this game?
"



It's not meant to be exact, but it's fairly good to give a rough estimation of timespan commitment.

That's true. I'm not complaining just curious of the policy. I agree for example with limiting the number of games. But not refunding points below 100 seems to create a problem

"not refunding points below 100 seems to create a problem"

Yes. The point is for whom it creates problems.
1. Normal users usually get quite above 100 in a few months.
2. Normal users usually choose wisely their games and never go CD.
3. In the rare case a normal user goes CD, it happens once or twice, not five times like you did (and maybe he already got 400 ).

So. Since Points are NEVER refunded when you lose, unless you got less than 100 AND you didn't CD, I can't see any problem created except for those who belong to none of the categories listed above. The solution is pretty simple: try and do your best to get into one of them. Personally I suggest you to get into category #2. And if you're "just curious of the policy"... well... the policy is just suggesting to you the same.

Oh, I forgot:
4. Normal users usually search for a sitter / a pause / an extension when they can't check their games for a while and if they can't achieve one of these solutions they ask the Mods for help. Normal users do their best to avoid CDing.

5 CDs out of 9 game played, 1 variant full of bugs and errors, but you spare a lot of time for typing on the forum.

That is one way of looking at it, the other way is that players with 100 or less are not reliable by nature, and you should therefore create games with a buy-in greater than 100 if you don't want them to CD.

Ending up with players with 0 who are unable to join games might seem great to your right-wing agenda, but it frankly doesn't make sense to the nature of the website.