Curing the non-member wasters problem

[Halmir]

Non members join your public games and miss turns. In fact, a noticeable percentage don't even make a move ever, forcing everyone else to wait a number of days whilst the timewasters are kicked out.

My suggestion? Give them a Negative medal for each game they do this in, which cuts down their turn time by 2 hours on each occasion. So if they join 4 games then deadbeat, they lose 4 x 2 hours so if they bother to come back and start up another 4 games, they'll only get 16 hours to make a turn instead of the regular 24. If they keep doing it, in time it could lock the acocunt (or reduce it to a far less inconvenient minimum). Once they complete 4 games then the Negative medals can start to be removed.

[Woodruff]

Non members join your public games and miss turns. In fact, a noticeable percentage don't even make a move ever, forcing everyone else to wait a number of days whilst the timewasters are kicked out.
My suggestion? Give them a Negative medal for each game they do this in, which cuts down their turn time by 2 hours on each occasion. So if they join 4 games then deadbeat, they lose 4 x 2 hours so if they bother to come back and start up another 4 games, they'll only get 16 hours to make a turn instead of the regular 24. If they keep doing it, in time it could lock the acocunt (or reduce it to a far less inconvenient minimum). Once they complete 4 games then the Negative medals can start to be removed.

I definitely agree that this is a very frustrating problem that absolutely impacts the enjoyment of ConquerClub. But it seems to me that a better way to handle it might be to require all new members to complete (as in play enough turns not to get kicked out) ONE (and only one) "newbie game" before being allowed to play in one with real members. There are enough folks joining games here all the time to keep this from being at all a problem. I think this would be far more effective in trying to eliminate the problem.