flying_neko wrote:
PLEASE, DO NOT IMPLEMENT AUTOMOVE!!!
I see your point. there are a few reason that don't make automove a MUST HAVE site condition:
1) people who stop playing when they are losing.
They simply can't. If they stop playing a game, the can't subscribe or create a new game anymore.
2) people who try our site then discover they don't like it
Another no-problem situation. If someone stop playing before the second move is done, the game is automatically deleted after 7 days.
3) The number of stopped games is really low, compared to the number of played games.
4) When automove will start, there will be a lot of old games going back to life, and someone will became very very very busy to play them all 
In the same time there are several reason to have the Automove implemented.
1) Someone really hate when a games stops. I read for example an Angiolillo message on BordGamesGeek who says he stopped playing here because sometimes his opponent stop playing when he was winning.
2) HD space constrain. This is a problem we will solve in the future. Currently we keep all the games history (even the finished one), but this can not last forever.
3) Games with several opponents where only one stop playing. In this case, the other players are willing to continue, and really disappointed
In the end, automove will be anyway. Currently we are very busy with WS&IR, and we'd like to have a stable version before going back to the Blue Max new version.
We stopped working to the new Blue Max version because with WS&IM we are experimenting a lot of new solutions, and some of them can and will be translated to Blue Max (before you ask, not the elastic map ).
WS&IM now has the automove implemented, and it works well. Eventually it will be even in Blue Max, but as I already said this is not a priority.
We are even considering an "Holydays button", that anyone can use when he is away for a period, so that all the other players know that he is not gone forever 
Gugliandalf returned! Well, I'm glad automove didn't waste his games. [...] Crash and Burn [...]'s account He is one of the best pilots around, with impressive stats: [...] Who would want to shoot down Crash and Burn's plane WITHOUT Crash and Burn sitting inside the plane??? 
This is another kind of problem, tied to the Statistics.
We talked a lot about statistics, but there is not yet a complete solution that can be used for all games.
Anyway I think that we simply can't keep players statistics forever.
Statistics are even very HD space consuming, because some of them needs that several old data are keep forever. So we should have to keep only statistics for players playing at least a game in the last (for example) 3 month.
This is even to avoid that someone create a new user, play 10 easy games to Cartagena winning them, then retire and became the first one in statistics forever.
Currently this is not decided yet. We'll see
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