So, idea to lessen the damage notorious cheaters/abusers do to players rank.. why not give each player 3 game "passes" per day...a match comes up, you select empire, and you have 10 seconds at match opening to use one of your 3 passes every 24 hours....

With just three, it is not enough to exploit/cheat, but it is enough for players like Myst, etc. to not lose 30 rank points to someone like Slip cheating or multing... it won't solve problems, but gives some options, and since the code for daily coin bonus is already in place, it won't be hard to add for CJ.

How about no?

This could be abused by cheats so much.

How could it be abused? Seriously, want to hear specifics.

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How could it be abused? Seriously, want to hear specifics.

If their cheats they can hack it, they abuse it so vs good players that their exploits don't always work vs they don'
t have to worry about. Its better to leave ranking how it besides maybe set up more servers, or improve the one we have.

Makes ranking even more frustrating.

Game should just store OOSes and if someone has a ton of em, ban hammah.

this is only viable if no alts and no game freeze there

otherwise it is still useless, you will just fight tons of alts around

it also means that players can dodge their opponents by intention (eg, lower ranked players don't want to play strong players, so they pass)

e.g make the lag out count to be within 3 secs

I could see a 5 second lag counter... 3 is too short... just something glitchy on your PC or internet could cause an losss.

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I could see a 5 second lag counter... 3 is too short... just something glitchy on your PC or internet could cause an losss.

u call even the smoothest game laggy dont u

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I could see a 5 second lag counter... 3 is too short... just something glitchy on your PC or internet could cause an losss.

Have you not realised yet that the lag abusers almost never get black boxes to begin with?

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Have you not realised yet that the lag abusers almost never get black boxes to begin with?

Have you ever seen lag abuser got black box with 0 sec count but not lag out? lol

tho i agree, sometimes lag like 2k ping but no black box LOL

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Have you ever seen lag abuser got black box with 0 sec count but not lag out? lol

tho i agree, sometimes lag like 2k ping but no black box LOL

Ever you ever seen a lag abuser get -15 before he lags out. I assume KillerAllah closed the page, but it started counting down in 5 second intervals down to -15 before I won :P

I closest I have seen that was in negative was -5

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Ever you ever seen a lag abuser get -15 before he lags out. I assume KillerAllah closed the page, but it started counting down in 5 second intervals down to -15 before I won :P

I closest I have seen that was in negative was -5

at least you won that one right?

I saw 0 second count from slip, then the screen stopped, I thought I won and went to washroom
then when I came back I realized the match continued and all my units died already, and lost the game

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at least you won that one right?

I saw 0 second count from slip, then the screen stopped, I thought I won and went to washroom
then when I came back I realized the match continued and all my units died already, and lost the game

Ouch, yes I did win.

This wont work.

They tried local locks on Elemental, but me and Richie were still able to play days before official release. Even Rain was able to find his way around it; just change the value of a 1 to a 0.

In this case, 3 to a 99 or something.