Yes. Your Game Stats make a distinction between 'Left' and 'Resigned', though. And no record survives if your position is taken over.

Someone check my claims.

It appears in your stats as "Resigned". The field isn't shown until you've resigned at least once.

There's a system in the works that will implement this full blown. It's on Vdip and called the reliability rating. It's essentially a percentage of how many turns you miss to how many turns have processed in the games you've played.

^gf, do you think you guys are going to try retroactively calculate a RR when it's implemented or just start it fresh for everyone?

My gut reaction says calculate it retroactively to punish those mardy dick-heads who ruin games just because they were losing. That said, many many people who dropped out of games thinking there would be no real penalty would probably cry "Foul!" so let's be magnanimous and forgive them, this one time only.

goldfinger0303: That sounds like it would penalize players who take over horrible positions by including the old player's NMR's in the new players stats. I don't think we need that.

It would only work for positions that ended the game abandoned as we have no record of who was the original player in the case of takeover CDs and past NMRs that may not have been the ending players NMR.

@ Yonni - that's more under kestas' control rather than ours. Not speaking from a position of authority, I would think it would not include past performance due to limitations of the information we have. But, I don't know the ins and outs of the database.

@Jece - if you picked up an CD, you will not inherit that other players' RR. At least that's how it works over on VDip, and I know kestas is borrowing much of the code from them.

goldfinger0303: Wouldn't you inherit the other player's NMR's in that game, though?

Nope, that's not how its done on VDip. If captainmeme or jmo come on they might be able to explain the mechanics better than I can.

There's an explanation page for RR here - http://www.vdiplomacy.com/reliability.php .

Regarding inheriting NMRs - Reliability Rating is player-specific, not game-specific. As far as I'm aware, it's just a case of adding one missed phase to your profile whenever a phase goes through and you haven't entered orders for it. The upside of this is the NMR or CD stays with the person who did it rather than transferring to a person who takes over the country - the downside is that it can't be calculated from games that happened before RR was implemented, so anyone who CD'd/NMR'd before that will not have it recorded.

interesting

I don't see an issue with introducing RR retroactively. First, it's a statistic; if a statistic about your play is a "punishment" for you, I don't see why it's the data's fault. Second, on vdip it can be used to filter who joins games -- the creator of the game has to select it in the game options. It's no more a punishment than password-protecting games and blacklisting people who resign is a punishment now.

If you reread captainmeme's post however, you'll realize it cannot be calculated retroactively to attribute NMRs to the correct player in the event of CD takeovers.

As y2k points out, it *can't* be calculated with the data saved historically as we don't know who might have CDed in any given game so any player with an NMR may not be his own, but someone else who CDed or was banned even. Plus, it wouldn't calculate on cancelled games where as moving forward and adding it to a counter everytime a person NMRs or CDs would, even for cancelled games.

oh, missed everything after the dash