People take PBEM to seriously?

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You just need to find a few good players and stick with them. It's like finding a wife, or a good gaming mouse.

I have 3 players I constantly play PBEM games, the newest of the three is a couple of years "with me".
I have gone through a variety of players who would either just vanish after a few turns, usually right after their surprising drop from the air fails.
I had a guy who was ok with me losing, but when I won a couple of rounds he was gone almost as fast as....something fast.
The most absurd was when with one opponent we were at 50-50 games and he left right after I destroyed a B-2 of his with a lucky shot. He spazzed out and left.


Unless of course there are other reasons. If I suspect something is wrong, then I will end the game first. I was fighting with one (single battles, which is unusual for me) who would manage to almost always know where to go where to avoid etc, and I kept getting security "alarms". I kept asking him and he had various excuses all around the "I don't know" or the "Oh yeah sorry, I forgot to tell you I had to reload".

Now, I am sooooo happy with my foursome!