NoPoke
Active Member
DItto
- you have just indicated that you will penalise honest players more than dishonest ones.
- Yes it does hurt the honest players more than the dishonest. I've seen a variety of dubious tactics used at tournaments, by making the mulligan an automatic game loss all we do IN PRACTICE is offer another possibility for the less than honest players to engage in dubious tactics.
- When the dishonest player argues the game loss gets reduced to a warning. They will argue. When the honest, or timid, or younger, or less experienced player, doesn't argue they get stuck with a game loss ?? That sucks.
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The very last thing I would want to do with the penalty guidelines is to have in place a penalty that is nominally a game loss until you argue at which point it is downgraded to a warning. The penalties have to stick. And this one wont. If you hand out game losses for the mulligan error then we end up teaching the players to argue to get a lesser penalty. NOT GOOD.
I dont want anything like the following...
Casual Penalty: Warning.
Competative Penalty: Game Loss
Players Argue over gamestate: Downgrade to a Warning
- you have just indicated that you will penalise honest players more than dishonest ones.
- Yes it does hurt the honest players more than the dishonest. I've seen a variety of dubious tactics used at tournaments, by making the mulligan an automatic game loss all we do IN PRACTICE is offer another possibility for the less than honest players to engage in dubious tactics.
- When the dishonest player argues the game loss gets reduced to a warning. They will argue. When the honest, or timid, or younger, or less experienced player, doesn't argue they get stuck with a game loss ?? That sucks.
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The very last thing I would want to do with the penalty guidelines is to have in place a penalty that is nominally a game loss until you argue at which point it is downgraded to a warning. The penalties have to stick. And this one wont. If you hand out game losses for the mulligan error then we end up teaching the players to argue to get a lesser penalty. NOT GOOD.
I dont want anything like the following...
Casual Penalty: Warning.
Competative Penalty: Game Loss
Players Argue over gamestate: Downgrade to a Warning