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runners in free automated fun can robots finish?

#1 User is offline   croquetfan 

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Posted 2018-December-13, 18:31

Quite a few players quit as soon as they make a stupid play, presumably so that their name does not end up embarrassingly low on the final result. (why would they worry?)
this spoils the fun a bit as robots appear more and more in later rounds.
Would it be possible to replace runners with a robot with the name staying on, maybe with a different colour etc. so that their lousy result still appears in the final table?
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Posted 2018-December-13, 19:59

View Postcroquetfan, on 2018-December-13, 18:31, said:

Would it be possible to replace runners with a robot with the name staying on, maybe with a different colour etc. so that their lousy result still appears in the final table?


View Postcroquetfan, on 2018-December-13, 18:31, said:

(why would they worry?)

^ this.
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Posted 2018-December-14, 00:58

I can only speak for myself. I frequently experience lost connections. I don't know why it happens but it does. I am not a runner but I find it difficult to maintain the 90% TCR required by the express tournament.
I think about self driving cars. Brakes not responding, shut the car off and restart.
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Posted 2018-December-14, 08:01

I wouldn't worry about it. Every time they run,they lower their Tournament Completion Rate(TCR)
Eventually they will reach a stage where their percentage will be too low to enter and they will be
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Posted 2018-December-15, 21:11

Sure, you can see when someone drops out due to disconnection etc, but there are many time when a player makes an enormous psyche which gets punished, or a plainly idiotic play then immediately drops out.
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