I was curious if there is a certain number of boots you can have before you are kicked from the site.  I was playing with a partner in a 2v2 situation, three rounds in he gets booted.  Obviously, I'm not psyched about it, but I figured maybe something came up.  Then I checked his profile.  He signed up for the site on the 8th and has been booted 3 times already!  This person at the very least should have some kind of red flag attached to his name, right?  3 boots in 2 days is a little ridiculous isn't it?  Thanks for listening to me rant, sorry for the negative thread.

I got booted twice in my first couple of days, but that was when the boot times were ridiculous and it was set to auto boot.

It's a tough one - on the one hand I don't want to penalize boots too much as it discourages use of lightning mode for example. On the other hand it's frustrating when a booted player stuffs up your game. Happy to take suggestions on how, or whether we should tighten up on boots.

ps - teamplay losses aren't counted against your ranking score

tom wrote: It's a tough one - one the one hand I don't want to penalise boots too much as it discourages use of lightning mode for example. On the other hand it's frustrating when a booted player stuffs up your game. Happy to take suggestions on how or whether we should tighten up on boots.

penalize :P

[Toaster Edit] - I got it for him Yertle 

I agree, I despised how WF handled them, but seems like there should be somehow something.

Wouldn't the enemies list help a bit in this situation?

I thought it was set up so that if someone was on your Enemies list, they couldn't join a game you were in? Or something like that. Obviously not the best solution, but it would be a way to "Red Flag" them.

Electric Monk wrote:
I thought it was set up so that if someone was on your Enemies list, they couldn't join a game you were in?

Only non-premium Enemies get restricted from games you are in (at least that's the the Premium thing says).

Can you set it up so that Lightning Game Boots don't count as Boots, but still count as losses so that have incentive to stick around?

I like Andernut's Idea. You join a Lightning game, you best be around when it starts.

Yes will do.

I like the idea that Andernut had. I understand the booted player would suffer a loss, but what about the other team member...does that person incur the wrath of a loss also, or can you (tom) set it up to be just the booted player?

Well, team games don't count towards rankings so no real issue there.

tom wrote: Well, team games don't count towards rankings so no real issue there.

Speaking of which, can we at least have team stats counted separately? I hate how in WF that team games don't count at all, as that's often where I shine.

When the team carries you, you mean?

;)

Gotcha, thanks.

tom wrote: When the team carries you, you mean?

;)

When I give all my units to them so they can go kill everybody. I like to think of it as a noble sacrifice :P.