Challenge a stranger who will bail

[gwnn]

I challenged strangers twice before and each time they bailed after less than 8 boards. Two issues/suggestions about this:

 

- Score the unplayed boards as 0% in MP or just don't score them at all, giving the final result as N/A. Currently the unplayed boards are considered 50%. I know these results are perfectly meaningless, and only someone who has no sense of self-respect would care about the final result, but well I care about the result at least a little bit :P and it's a bit weird that if my opponent wins board 1 (unbeknownst to them) and then stops playing, that still counts as a 56.25-43.75 win for them.

- If the challenge was a stranger challenge, just re-issue it to someone who hopefully will play all 8 boards.

[42krunner]

Reply?

[Rain]

We will probably redo the way challenges work in the near future. It feels a bit clunky right now.

 

Also, the person who doesn't finish playing all boards are technically considered to have withdrawn/lost the match, although maybe that bit isn't clear.

[gwnn]

If you show

A: +4

B: -4

 

and results like:

1 3.0
2 1.0
3 0.0
4 0.0
5 0.0
6 0.0
7 0.0
8 0.0

Then no, it is not at all clear that you consider A to have lost the challenge because they bailed after two boards (maybe they even bid and almost finished playing board 3!). Of course if I go and find the precise combination of 3-4 clicks, I can find out that actually there are two boards that have actually been scored, but

A: 4, B: -4

Doesn't suggest that B won. I think you can forgive me in assuming that if A has more points than B on the scoreboard you show me, then A won and B lost, technically, mathematically, and any which way.