benlessard Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 Just login in and playing vs randoms is often impossible. After 2 or 3 alerts many just quit, the best we can hope to get is a tough but rude player from a specific contry. His patient partner (PP) will see bids that are incomprehensible and some serious handhogging. If PP make a slight defensive mistake he will hear about it, how can you make 2 or 3 stupid bids in a row and complain that your partner made a misdefense ? This is because they think they bid well. Its a country that I would very much to visit one day but I wish I could auto-block their players on bbo. Booting them out of the table is even starting to become one of my guilty pleasure. If you dont want to make a partnership only room make a vip/patron section, many will be happy to pay a fee per year just to play vs a more serious opposition. BBo make money, serious players play vs serious players, social player do not suffer 3 or 4 alerts in a row or get their ass kicked by stronger players all the time. Win-win-win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bbradley62 Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 Gee... what country could he possibly be referring to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgoetze Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 Gee... what country could he possibly be referring to?I dunno... maybe MrAce knows? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 Why not practice versus robots though, when you don't have friends online willing to play at your table? I don't think even in your VIP room suggestion you'll find a regular partnership willing to practice vs your system, who will also understand its depths and adapt their own system to cater to yours instead of blindly playing their bog 2/1 with the occasional misunderstandings generated by them ignoring your alerts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benlessard Posted April 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 Why not practice versus robots generated by them ignoring your alerts. Its exactly why there should be have been "partnerships only" rooms 10 years ago. Why would serious players who want to practice for a serious event would want to play vs bots or vs people who are ignoring alerts ? Some people play bridge and do not know how to keep score its ok, some people never made a defensive signals in defense its ok too, some only know their national bidding system and never heard of strong clubs or transfers over 1C again ive got no problem with those players. But a serious competitive player would want to play against his peers from time to time dont you think ? Do you think a chess expert prefer to play vs a social player or versus another expert ? Do you think a heavyweight boxer like to fight vs a 150-155 lb boxer ? Its basic common sense for sports and games matchmaking if you dont have a rating system at least help the players in their matchmaking. If they want to play vs a random or weak opponents they can still do it... Why not give the choice to the players ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 Its exactly why there should be have been "partnerships only" rooms 10 years ago. Why would serious players who want to practice for a serious event would want to play vs bots or vs people who are ignoring alerts ? Some people play bridge and do not know how to keep score its ok, some people never made a defensive signals in defense its ok too, some only know their national bidding system and never heard of strong clubs or transfers over 1C again ive got no problem with those players. But a serious competitive player would want to play against his peers from time to time dont you think ? Do you think a chess expert prefer to play vs a social player or versus another expert ? Do you think a heavyweight boxer like to fight vs a 150-155 lb boxer ? Its basic common sense for sports and games matchmaking if you dont have a rating system at least help the players in their matchmaking. If they want to play vs a random or weak opponents they can still do it... Why not give the choice to the players ? I agree with what you are saying and understand the suggestion in full. What I think is, there aren't all that many serious partnerships out there willing to put up with unfamiliar systems too. By the way this is just my personal opinion, not some official BBO take. What I think would work is adding an option to Help Me Find A Game asking partnerships to be matched with other partnerships - but that won't guarantee that the partnership you end up against will be better than the random expert + PP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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