Who wants to play with someone with a boot rate in the 40s or 50s.
That means you bail about half the time.
I get booted when I have a bad connection or if I'm distracted and someone boots right at the cut off, but really if your boot rate is that high, consider something else to do.

I will not budge that a boot rate over %10 is irresponsible. You can say there are reasons you got booted (school, wifi, work, etc). Those are all things that CAN happen in a game that cause a boot. But if that is happening in 1 of 10 of your games, than you are irresponsible for playing in those conditions. Don't put yourself in a position that 1 out of 10 of your games will end that way. Play when you can ACTUALLY play, and then you might get booted %1-2 of the time that shit happens.

That is like showing up late to work 1 in 10 times and blaming it on traffic. Well, if you know traffic has a good chance of delaying you, then account for it and adjust. Sure, it might still hose you once and a while when something really bad happens, but the rest of the time you should have your bases covered.

Anyway, I personally don't care as I bet I don't play with any of you. but if I set up an open game/tournament, I put a max boot rate of %10 on there for sure. Nobody wants to play with someone that has issues that often (their fault or not).

I got a number of boots from a period in time where I got overwhelmed by work and was in too many games. I learned my lesson, but my 10 boots annoys me to this day.

Anyone who has a boot rate over 5% and plays team matches, go fuck yourself.

i have been booted from 70 match's, 25% and yet i dont care! dont see why its such a big deal...

It's an EXTREMELY big deal.

Let's say you're in a 2v2 paired with a good player, and you guys are up against equal opposition. With 0 boots you'd be expected to win %50 of your games.


If your teammate gets booted 25% of the time, that number drops to %37.5. That's a whole letter grade and a half, and is unacceptable.

I'm really ashamed...it rose to 29% over the last week. Though they were mostly diplomacy games...I suck.

I have been booted 80 times (8.4%), and honestly most of that is from non-vacation honoring or auto boots, which should just be removed from everything in warlight except for tournaments.

Now i would like to mention the best way to piss everyone off, join as many real time games as you can and set a vacation for 10 days.

All but one of my boots were due to wifi being down.

autoboots are kinda necessary to keep games going at a reasonable pace. puts some kind of ceiling on stalling, even if it can still be incredibly annoying it will not be literally infinite, it will just feel that way. it also keeps people from trying to analyze games for an eternity before making their move. if there is an autoboot, then everyone will know the boot is unbiased for the most part, no arguments over whether it was fair to boot someone or not. the autoboot has different benefits depending on your group, and skill level, and should NOT be removed.

as for vacation honoring, what if someone goes into vacation and never comes back? its one thing if vacations are honored in a single game, but in a more serious competition, well, i doubt other competitors in a tournament or league will want to wait, because someone else went on vacation for some unknown reason. especially if the player is not particularly trustworthy. most of the time, vacations do not appear to be as big an issue, especially if the vacation protection is used primarily in groups of better players who are unlikely to walk away intentionally. however, those who believe it is not an issue to be booted, to hold up others, to leave because they don't like their bit of the game, regardless of teammates? vacation honoring has little place for them. not that most of them necessarily know of the vacation function :P

Edited 11/20/2015 04:00:45

Not honoring vacations is one argument you can make - but don't join those if you're going on vacation.

Autoboots is far more fair than direct boots. Don't join a game with a short autoboot if you can't do it.

The group i play with doesn't care how fast the games progress normally, and its always annoying when you're playing WW1 or WW2 and Germany gets booted for example.... I just wish that autoboot would be off by default (I love that vacations are honored is default) because there would be less games with autoboot in general.
https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=8791043
(Germany and USSR got booted)