Pof hide online status9/2/2023 ![]() But once again, such things deserves their specific ticket. The "online near you" is another dubious thing, indeed, and doesn't bring anything useful anyway. The gamelog spammed with XXX connected/disconnected is a serious issue too, but it doesn't belong here, and having an offline status isn't the way to fix it.ĭND or "ignore" status (with the possibility to simply prevent beeing messaged or invited) could be useful, but I don't miss them as much as the possiblity to block spam requests like global chat or "Hey, you, come join a game you didn't ask for !", which IMO should have been removed or restricted to least played games a loooong time ago. but 100% disagree with hiding people's history (and wonder in which case hiding it could be acceptable/legit) I 100% agree with the (now implemented) mutual friends thing So having a visible game-history in my eyes in mandatory fór the game-experience of fairness and playingstrength. Especially in the end of the season, Arena-rankings can change a lot in the last minutes even when it is not visible if people just play this game. In tournament and Arena-games it is important to know if opponents play another game. ![]() In other games as well, sometimes I learn how good-ranked players play their games, to improve my own game. In these groups we share games in which all players played pretty well, such that everyone can analyze that. There exist groups talking about strategy of the game (I am member of at least two). Such a thing will be recognized if everyone can see the game-history. Easy points and not only cheating themselves but everyone who plays honestly. One example could be to create a false account, playing houndrets of games against that false account and always quit. When only friend can see what games one person played, there will be people using that out. I want to agree on the previous post of Wreckage and want to bring some more points why an open game-history is important: Its supporters are either potential cheaters or ones who don’t want BGA to be improved. In conclusion, this suggestion is everything but reasonable and I’m happy to see that BGA admins have paid no attention to it, which is the wisest thing they have ever done. Undoubtedly, supporting this suggestion means blocking the way to improve for beginners. It considerably improves the players’ average level and significantly increases the amount of high-quality games, which is necessary for the healthy development of BGA. Second, analyzing the games of experts and masters helps the beginners to form a reasonable strategy quickly without having to play a lot of meaningless games with completely wrong strategy. Undoubtedly, supporting this suggestion means supporting CHEATING. Thus, cheating behaviours like playing with themselves and bursting ELO will become much more frequent than now. Cheating is doomed to happen if cheaters can hide their game information so there is no concern that they will be reported and lose the ELO they have earned by cheating. I am totally against this suggestion, as it will completely ruin the fun, as well as the fairness of the games if implemented.įirst, only by analyzing the games he/she has played can we identify whether a high-ranker is getting a high ELO by cheating. That is something which I think should not be possible. I'm not sure if a player you red thumbed can have you in their friends and with that see your status. If they don't appreciate your request you can always (personal) red thumb them. ![]() If you don't like somebody asking you questions you can politely ask them to stop since you are focusing on a game. I'm completely fine with people having me on the list asking me to join a game but not vice versa. I understand that it also can be irritating. I'm completely fine with one-sided friends and them being able to message you can be useful. Being able to hide your games makes it impossible for me to filter certain people out (and if I want to play against an engine I go somewhere where I can do that).Īs for the friends/online status. In chess/checkers some of them cheat (which sometimes can be spotted from their play style) and otherwise it's a nice method to capture their skill level. On the other hand I'd like to be able to quickly replay games of my opponents in high-level games. On one end the log of all your games and times tells a lot about when you were online playing games and could put people in a bad spot if people know their name and can see their game times.
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