Conquer Club

I was reading the rules of CC and came across the following. I can get most of them, but what exactly is "holding players hostage"?


Unwritten Rules

Obviously any gross abuse of the game is forbidden. This includes but is not limited to: throwing games or deliberately benefiting from thrown games, intentional deadbeating, holding players hostage, serial teammate killing, hijacking accounts, systematically "farming" new recruits.

Thakns,

IrishCaesar

when you dont end a game and just deploy. when doing so against a non premium it doesnt allow him to play his 4th free game since you wont end the game. I think it was RL Orange that did this to a player years ago.

Holding a player hostage is deliberately prolonging a game when you could have ended the game easily several rounds earlier.

Let's say I'm winning the game, I get 20 troops per turn and you only get 3. You only have a few regions left and no stacks, if I instead of finishing you off, just deploy my troops every turn without taking you out, I'm holding you hostage.

Edit: I usually do this when I really want to piss someone off or force him to deadbeat, or both.

Thanks guys!

So does this also include those instances where a player will deploy to get rid of neuts, etc. as part of some obsessive compulsion instead of just ending the game? I hate that!

Funkyterrance wrote:So does this also include those instances where a player will deploy to get rid of neuts, etc. as part of some obsessive compulsion instead of just ending the game? I hate that!

Lol, this is really happening, it is so funny, its funny for the first round but after its totally annoying.

Another thing, what if i know that i will be eliminated from a game, or somebody whos turn is before me will trade and win the whole game
and i am going to lose points, can i extend the game i am winning to the next day so i can get more points out of the win?

AslanTheKing wrote:Another thing, what if i know that i will be eliminated from a game, or somebody whos turn is before me will trade and win the whole game
and i am going to lose points, can i extend the game i am winning to the next day so i can get more points out of the win?

I was thinking about this earlier and I am sure there are players that manipulate the duration of their games in order to maximize their points. Too much trouble for me though.

Funkyterrance wrote:

AslanTheKing wrote:Another thing, what if i know that i will be eliminated from a game, or somebody whos turn is before me will trade and win the whole game
and i am going to lose points, can i extend the game i am winning to the next day so i can get more points out of the win?

I was thinking about this earlier and I am sure there are players that manipulate the duration of their games in order to maximize their points. Too much trouble for me though.

but mathematically its a good point or?

I'm sure that it still falls under the category of abusing game mechanics...