Conquer Club

• Give Tournament Organizers the ability to "join" the players into their respective tournament games.

• This was something that sailorseal mentioned in his interview, and I think it's a great idea. Basically, allow a Tournament Organizer to not only create the games for the players, but to then join the respective players INTO those games.

• Save a great deal of tournament time, as the players would be auto-joined into the tournament games themselves. Then once the "first player to move" (which would still be randomly determined by the site software) logs in, the game takes off. As things currently stand, both players have to log in and then join the game, and THEN the "first player to move" is selected...a great difference in time, potentially.

jpcloet wrote:Neat idea, however seems like too much power to me. What if a player doesn't have enough spots?

jpcloet wrote:TO's make mistakes, I wouldn't want someone adding me to a wrong game or a game made with the wrong settings. I'm not sure you will be able to avoid this completely.

Night Strike wrote:I'd also be against this suggestion. Some people don't have the time to join the games as soon as they receive it. If you send me games on Friday, but I'm going to be out of town over the weekend, it makes more sense to just join the games after I return rather than have my sitter take the turns.

Night Strike wrote:Also, there could easily be abuse such as putting people in a bunch of games that they'll probably lose just to rig somebody's points. Sure there can be punishments for doing that, but the damage would have already been done.

Woodruff wrote:

jpcloet wrote:TO's make mistakes, I wouldn't want someone adding me to a wrong game or a game made with the wrong settings. I'm not sure you will be able to avoid this completely.

As opposed to someone joining 8 or 10 of the wrong games in the same tournament email? <smile>

jpcloet wrote:

Woodruff wrote:

jpcloet wrote:TO's make mistakes, I wouldn't want someone adding me to a wrong game or a game made with the wrong settings. I'm not sure you will be able to avoid this completely.

As opposed to someone joining 8 or 10 of the wrong games in the same tournament email? <smile>

Don't be all over the player, the TO was partially to blame.

jpcloet wrote:I think there are better tools that TO's would rather have.

sailorseal wrote:Well since I suggested it I feel obligated to support it, the only way I feel mistakes/abuse could be avoided is that TOs could delete games even after they had started

Bones2484 wrote:

sailorseal wrote:Well since I suggested it I feel obligated to support it, the only way I feel mistakes/abuse could be avoided is that TOs could delete games even after they had started

This is never even done by Lack for cheating purposes. Why do you think it would be allowed for tournament organizers?

sailorseal wrote:Well since I suggested it I feel obligated to support it, the only way I feel mistakes/abuse could be avoided is that TOs could delete games even after they had started

sailorseal wrote:I was not suggesting it should be done, I was saying that is the only way it would work and we all now that does not happen

ubersky wrote:Seems like the easiest thing to do is for the TO to be able to set slot/game reservations (unordered) to which the password mechanism currently used would be replaced with a simple lookup list of members allowed to join the game.

Bones2484 wrote:As a tournament player, I would hate this. I want to know which games I'm joining, and in many cases I like to join in a particular order as well.

sailorseal wrote:Well since I suggested it I feel obligated to support it, the only way I feel mistakes/abuse could be avoided is that TOs could delete games even after they had started

sailorseal wrote:

Bones2484 wrote:

sailorseal wrote:Well since I suggested it I feel obligated to support it, the only way I feel mistakes/abuse could be avoided is that TOs could delete games even after they had started

This is never even done by Lack for cheating purposes. Why do you think it would be allowed for tournament organizers?

I was not suggesting it should be done, I was saying that is the only way it would work and we all now that does not happen

Woodruff wrote:

sailorseal wrote:

Bones2484 wrote:

sailorseal wrote:Well since I suggested it I feel obligated to support it, the only way I feel mistakes/abuse could be avoided is that TOs could delete games even after they had started

This is never even done by Lack for cheating purposes. Why do you think it would be allowed for tournament organizers?

I was not suggesting it should be done, I was saying that is the only way it would work and we all now that does not happen

I disagree that this is the only way it would work. The few times that mistakes happen can just be ignored (as is currently done when a player joins the wrong games) and abuse can be handled in the same way that abuse is always handled here...as a separate issue not related to the tournament itself.

Bones2484 wrote:I don't even know what suggestion we are talking about anymore.

Woodruff wrote:

Bones2484 wrote:I don't even know what suggestion we are talking about anymore.

It doesn't matter, since the people running this place can't seem to drag themselves into thinking outside of the box a little bit.