I keep getting players intentionally waiting until their turn ends. This issue existed when I played this game years ago. I am not sure why nothing is being done to address this. It makes the game unbearable and is clearly an exploit for cheats to force opponents to concede by making the game unbearably boring. Surely there is a reporting solution that must be possible. I.E if a player is doing this and I press a button to report and the AI can spot a pattern of this happening, the player doing this automatically loses.
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What exactly is the offense here though that is worth reporting? Because the devs are the ones who set the turn limits, so you can’t exactly ban people for playing within the legal parameters of the game, that would be ridiculous. You obviously find it frustrating, but at the end of the day, it is a you problem. Don’t feel the need to be in such a rush, you can do other things whilst playing this game.
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Zzzzz. Game devs should make game interesting not unbearably boring. I think I am remembering why I quit before.
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Ah $#^|, here we go again…
Listen, friend. We all have time limits for our turns. We can do whatever we want with those time limits. If you can’t handle that that I suggest you stop playing again. Blizzard doesn’t need to punish ropers. They are not breaking any rules and the only person being harmed is you. This is a you problem. Not a blizzard or hearthstone problem.
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Doesn’t change the fact that if someone is intentionally roping, it’s annoying as hell.
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I know they don’t break rules. This is why rules have to change to make the game more enjoyable for everyone.
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I am not saying to punish them. I am not saying to ban them. Just they lose the game if they are wasting other people’s time on purpose.
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At least they’ve implemented a system where if someone ropes ien or two turns, their next turn seems to be shorter.
It used to be a lot worse.
Intentionally freezing my entire board over and over again is also annoying as hell. If a player is doing this I should be able to press a button to report them and the AI can spot this pattern and make the player lose the match. Or be suspended form the game. Or banned for all eternity!
I’m not aware of this. I know that if you have no activity whatsoever on your turn and run time down all the way to the rope, the next turn starts with the rope burning unless you make a move, in which case your turn timer resets to full time. Is that what you are referring to?
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That’s probably what I was thinking of.
And just for the record, I’m not in favor of some report button for ropers. Reporting is for people doing something wrong or against terms and conditions.
This would be like trying to grab management at Walmart to kick someone out for swiping their groceries too slow ay the checkout. Doesn’t work that way.
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I know. Just wanted to throw up a silly counter example to poke you. 
Or writing a check at the supermarket. Yes, I had someone do this in front of me last week. 
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The problem with this is: how do you tell the difference between someone doing this on purpose and someone who’s genuinely taking that time to weigh all the possible moves before taking action?
Hearthstone can be a simple game at times. Other times it can be deceptively complex, and you don’t know what’s in your opponent’s hand or deck or what internal debates are going through their head.
Some people probably do this on purpose to frustrate their opponent, it’s true. I once faced someone who did all of their actions early and then wait until the rope nearly fizzled before pressing the End Turn button, every single turn. But other than cases like that, it’s pretty hard to tell if it’s intentional.
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Was it with stone and chisel? Good lord lol
This is where the AI comes in. Obviously if people are doing this for the first 6 turns they are clearly doing this on purpose. The turn time should reduce for the first few turns alternatively.
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I think that when the End Turn button is lit up green (indicating that there’s nothing else that can be done) the remaining time for the turn should be drastically reduced.
At that point, they literally cannot take any further actions whatsoever.
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Supermarket analogy is rubbish since the person has nothing to try and gain by being slow.
Sure, but premise remains the same.
Just because something is irritating doesn’t mean it necessarily must be completely eliminated. Personally, I like my End Turn button solution. Any time there’s action left to take, you or I cannot truly know what the other person is up to on their side of the game.
Well, maybe not in the game. But I can run and take a leak or get a glass of juice or watch a you tube short of a guy sneezing, burping, and farting at the same time, all while the timer runs down. I do that sometimes, and this way I don’t miss what my opponent does on his turn.
Annoying or not. Doesn’t call for action by blizzard. Players need to get over it or find something else to play.
Sounds harsh but the time limit has been the same since the game started. It’s never a problem until impatient players complain.
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Burn the rope complaining is one thing I don’t understand. Who cares, it’s what a minute or a minute and a half? You don’t have that much patience?
If my opponent burns the rope, I will burn it every single turn after. Occasionally they use it as a tactic to hope you quit. The time allows you to see every move and actually think your move out rather then just dump a card. Don’t play a game if you don’t have the time imo.
This is a game complaint I really don’t understand. Chess moves get time too and good players always use it to look at the entire board.
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Indeed. And I don’t get this whole “if you don’t have any actions left you shouldn’t get the time” argument. What if I make my play and want to think out the next play as best I can? Cheating me out of 30 seconds or more just because my opponent is impatient isn’t fair. What’s fair is giving everyone a set amount of time and letting us do with it as we please. Which is how it is now and has been since hearthstone started.
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