PBW - Loosers Who Quit

[Gozra]

Phoenix-D said:

That's just being pissy. With one minefield there is 0% chance of doing anything meaningful..and worse, minefields are completely computer controlled anyway so all your holding on did was slow down the game for the other player(s).

Sorry about that I tend toward brevety in speech and in writing. Everything I said was the truth, but the situtation was I was the Last player in the game beside the winner. The Winning player knew I was teasing and only cussed to tease me right back. And I only continued to fight becaue it was funny in an absurd way. The winning player and are a good friends.
But quitting players are a fact of life we will all have to contend with and if you want to avoid that just request Grandpa Kim's seal of approval.

[bearclaw]

The only times I've left games has been when something came up in RL. In each case I've informed the GM and even found replacement players in a couple of instances. In fact, I'm in one game where I told the others I have to leave about 3 months ago and I'm still there... waiting for a replacement as I've got a respectfully large empire and the mod doesn't support AI play very well.

I can agree with the frustration of a quitting player who does not inform anyone.

Some of the funnest games I've played have been a fighting retreat to zero. In one instance, my ship designs were vastly superior to my enemies (toot toot), but he had shear numbers. IIRC he needed to out-number me 5 to 1 to hope to defeat me in combat. Of course, I had put so much research into ship components to get that way that my planetary defense's were nearly nil... which is why I ended up in the situation I was. But man, I've never had so much fun losing before.