You can do some very minimal reliability gating on PlayDip, but serious reliability requires using a password and checking someone's stats before admitting them to the game. The person running the game would have the option of letting someone in that didn't strictly meet the requirements. I'd be interested in games that not only had reliability requirements but also communication requirements. That's something that you could only check for quantity, not quality, but still, that's something. Games where people's idea of messaging is a tweet between turns drive me crazy. But none of these need to be options on game creation. They can be handled using passwords and checking potential players stats.

I don't think that takeovers should affect RR except as a byproduct of giving the do-gooder a chance to legitimately finish a game that is already closer to completion and therefore probably requires a smaller time investment.

"Unreliable players shouldn't be able to make games that have a reliability gate for the last 123 days when they CDed 5 games 124 days ago"

I don't mind if an unreliable player did such a thing. "Caveat emptor" to who signs up for such a game. If you don't think 123 days is valid, don't join. If the unreliable person flakes again, then that becomes part of their more recent record.

Just played a live gunboat. I CANNOT manually check RRs. A 17% and 36% RR players resign, one in S01, one later. Perfect example of why it's not useful without a setting.

You get what you pay for with a 20 point buy in game.

I agree with Valis; live game ratings should be distinct from all others. Someone has a power cut/PC failure - in 5 minutes you can't fix this and suddenly your RR gets tanked. Misleading.

Is it misleading, though? There's a difference between someone who plays live games on their mobile during a cross country car trip through patchy coverage and someone who is sitting in front of a PC with reliable internet.

Popping in to say I do not advocate for special rules for Live games or a seperate rating. I'm actually against that.

I merely said that Live games in particular need it to be an internal setting and not manually checked by the players themselves.

I think its perfect ATC. Dont let all these wack jobs influence you to make things more complicated than they need to be.
Just need a "look back period" and you are good to go.

This site has discouraged CDs from the very beginning. Just because you didn't think anyone was watching doesn't mean that it was OK to just drop a game because you didn't like it.

ATC, I think if you can implement a way to roll old games off, that's fine. But if you can't, that's fine too. I'd love a way to gate games by RR.

@jbalcorn: Create a game and see for yourself!

I just saw that a game had a RR75% on it. Very cool.