I don’t know if this specific question has been asked. If it has, I’m sorry.
But why does so many people rope the first 2 turns? Most games, my opponent ropes the 1st 2 turns. As soon as the rope appears, they end turn.
It is not a connection problem, because I can see the person is there by the highlighted cards changing, and they ended the turn before the rope ends. Its also not a question of them starting a game and then doing something else (which would be rude btw), as again, I can see them moving the mouse.
I cannot imagine that a thinking problem is so commonplace, but maybe I am wrong. I mean, you have 1 or 2 mana, and 4 or 5 cards. Is it that difficult to figure out what to do?
If it is strategy, please let me know. I may be missing out on it. I mean, I am not getting annoyed, I’ve come to expect it.
So why. Please, I am curious.
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It requires a lot of thought to do nothing on turn 1 and on turn 2 to heal your face with hero power and emote the light shall burn you. They need that time to think.
People might be thinking about more than just the current turn, particularly on the coin but also on the play. Considering how the first few turns should be played out given the cards in hand and possible top decks is not uncommon. The rope also appears after like 15 seconds on the first 2 turns so its not exactly a long time.
Good answer. I’ll accept it.
It’s a bad answer. There is no actual reason for them to rope, but the answer you are gonna hear from 98% of the player base here that think there is actually a lot of thought that goes into playing broken net decks is that they are allowed to use all the time they want.
I find it easier to rope on turn 1-2 rather than turn 7-8 in most cases.
Especially when I am deciding if it is better to play my 1 drops against a deck that likes having targets, or when I am playing a more midrange deck and I am deciding if playing minions just for their body and bot the effect (tempo brann maybe on 2 with the coin) is the winning strategy.
Of course the most common case is that the opponent is doing something else in background on their computer
I don’t mind if someone uses their whole turn, that’s fine.
The player is not doing something else, because I can see different cards lighting up as they move the mouse around.
If it is, as Moonunit and DLMdD said, basically just planning ahead, I can accept that. It is the same as a chess player using a lot of time every single turn before making a move. But then, as in chess, I would like the option to play a timed game. Where you have maybe 10 or 15 minutes total game time per player. If your time expires you lose.
Maybe a separate game mode for timed games.
I actually forget to press end turn a lot of times on the first couple of turns, I play my cards (or not) and alt+tab away from the game and the rope sound on the background reminds me of it.
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roping can be used as tool to annoy you into conceding, or making bad plays
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I think at least 33% of the time they do it just for that. I repeat it to myself, and I get calmer.
I’ll admit, it has also happened to me, that I got distracted and forgot to press the end turn button. But then I “oops” just to show it was not intentional. But intentionally doing it, and alt+tab away from the game, I consider that rude.
But I think that’s what actually happens in most cases.
If it’s late and turn 1 its bacause i fell asleep and the rope woke me up lol.
At the start of the game? Like I said, I have come to expect it, so I don’t get annoyed about it. But it seems like a lame strategy. But I think Bronson’s answer is closer to the mark. People start the game, then alt+tab.
Well it doesn’t happen all the time but sometimes people hit the queue button when leaving a match by accident or try to cancel a queue only to get locked in anyways. Then you hear the rope and are like dang.
Yes said people in my sample size are me. 
It is because their last opponent roped them and they got so upset that they must do the same to the next person.
But after 2 turns they realised roping is very annoying and then they stop doing it.