Matchamking timeout for burning clock

[Panda]

Does the game put you on a timeout period if you just waste time and sit there to burn the clock to lose?

I hopped on for my dailies and played 6 matches, 3 of them I won from timeouts which is a nice waste of my time.
2 were people afk'ing from the very start, one played a single land then nothing the other was afk on hand choice. 3rd game was around turn 5 or 6, looked like I was going to win and opponent just afk'd the clock away.

There should be a cooldown period if you;re just going to waste people's time, maybe like 10 minutes first time then a hour second and keep track per week how much they're doing it. Community is toxic enough without this.

[CourtJesterCowboy]

Yeah, one of, if not the biggest complaint of Arena... Its called "roping" when someone tries to burn the clock and get you to forfeit, or when they realize they just lost, so angrily burn the clock.

This is compounded by the way they have Arena designed. If you accidentally disconnect, you get all that time to reconnect and continue playing, but they have no system in place to check whether the person exited the game, disconnected accidentally, or are just sitting idle.

Ultimately, its really WoTc/Arenas fault for not cracking down on a better system. Its utter trash if we are being honest. I have been saying for years that we deserve a speed play mode switch, where both players prioritize fast play and get less time to waste.

It sucks. You are not alone, but most of the time when it happens, they started a match and either rage quit or had to jump off for whatever reason and the game treats it like an accidental disconnect and you get left sitting for no reason.

The best solution I have found considering it will likely never be fixed, at least any time soon, is just have a video/tv show playing on a second monitor so when it happens, you just focus on your show and dont feel robbed. The only way to know if its true roping is if they emote while doing it, which lets you know they are indeed there burning time. Those are the actual losers.

[DontMisunderstand]

A lot of people complain about their opponents roping, but you're the first I've seen propose an actual good way to help curb the problem. Just do a short time-out for the account if they have a timer loss. Simple, effective, and fair even to the players who timed out unintentionally because of life, because those players probably aren't going to be playing for the next 10 or so minutes at least anyway if they had an emergency that was too urgent to even concede first.

[Mirror]

There is a system that is used in Dota 2 that I really like. Almost the same as what the OP has mentioned. But basically the system works like this. If you are being toxic or doing nothing and just wasting time.

You will get a timeout/ban from playing the game that ever increases. It starts at 10 minutes and goes up to 6 months. Anything after that and you get a permanent ban.

While this wont deter all toxic players, it will put a lot in line. Would love if this got added to MTG Arena

[ʍolɟ ǝɥʇ ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ]

Also alt+f4 dcs means they aren't necessarily even waiting for it either. They can just come back in 5-10 minutes after doing something else. On mobile it's as simple as closing the app

[Panda]

Originally posted by Judy:

There is a system that is used in Dota 2 that I really like. Almost the same as what the OP has mentioned. But basically the system works like this. If you are being toxic or doing nothing and just wasting time.

You will get a timeout/ban from playing the game that ever increases. It starts at 10 minutes and goes up to 6 months. Anything after that and you get a permanent ban.

While this wont deter all toxic players, it will put a lot in line. Would love if this got added to MTG Arena

I used to play CSGO ranked matches only and they had a similar system, seems the best way of handling it imo as it doesn't punish one off but cracks down on repeat offenders.