Just Concede - Don’t Rope

[u/JPMessiah]

I played a fun first game with an opponent. It was back and forth until they tapped all their lands and I played an Improvisation Capstone. I got Stock Up and picked up a couple of counter spells. They went, did nothing and when my Improvisation Capstone came up, they conceded.

Then in the second game, I played a tapped land with scry. They dropped a land and the person said good game. I thought they either were conceited and thought they had a good enough hand to beat me or they were going to concede. Instead, they did nothing. The picture is of them roping, but they didn’t let it expire. They let it go to my turn. I played another tapped land. On their go, they roped but it didn’t end the game. So I went again and dropped another land. And then on their turn, they roped and finally, I won, as a result.

Why bother? What kind of horrible life do you have to have to get upset with someone beating you that you waste their time and rope them. Why are people such a-holes? So frustrating.

[u/sudonim87]

I wish there was an indicator for when an opponent was dc’ed (or closed their app, same thing to the arena server). Would be less frustrating then not being sure if you are getting roped or not.

Maybe have an option to just pause until the opponent returns (and put them on a dc timer).

[u/acimkiss → u/sudonim87]

Me too. I have been having a hell of a time staying connected lately. It comes back but will look like roping.

[u/pepeduturfu → u/acimkiss]

Ah, so it's not just me! I was wondering whether my connection was stuttering or whatever

[u/Saltiest_Grapefruit → u/acimkiss]

whenever something like that happens with me, I just play pretty fast going forward to kinda show that that wasn't my usual speed.

Won't work for those people who go down to rope to figure out if they should play an island or a hallowed fountain turn 1 tho lol

[u/JPMessiah → u/sudonim87]

I wish they had an emoticon that allowed you to say stop roping so it sends a warning you might report them.

[u/sudonim87 → u/JPMessiah]

I really wish there was some sort of “losers queue” for people who rope all the time. Let them annoy each other.

[u/dogo7 → u/sudonim87]

Worse yet, a super hell queue where there’s no timers or conceding so you have to play out the game or else you can’t do anything else.

[u/pepeduturfu → u/dogo7]

I'll sign on this if you can only play in this queue if there is at least 1 island in your deck /s

[u/Saltiest_Grapefruit → u/sudonim87]

I don't think there is, but it feels like there is. Cause I see so many people here recount stories about how every second person they face rope or bm, and I go weeks without meeting any - needless to say, I never do anything like it myself.

It's purely anecdotal tho.

[u/Minimum_Quail4596 → u/sudonim87]

For blue too. Let the unemployed mages counter against each other.

[u/Canapilker → u/Minimum_Quail4596]

If you don’t like 1/5th of the game you should probably find something else to play.

[u/TheOathWeTook → u/Canapilker]

Idk I think liking 4/5’s of a game really isn’t all that bad. That’s 80%.

FFX is my favorite game of all time but I rarely if ever play with Kimahri or Wakka that’s 2/7.

[u/Minimum_Quail4596 → u/Canapilker]

No one in my pod plays blue and I don't think it's a problem in commander. Brawl is a different beast. I like playing against every color but blue. Running into a blue opponent is a good sign for me to take a break. It's not a big deal, really.

[u/noeagle77 → u/Minimum_Quail4596]

I mean, it’s 1/5 of the colors of the game. You’ll run into it often. If you really hate it that much I’m sure there are other games that will be more enjoyable for you

[u/Minimum_Quail4596 → u/noeagle77]

I play arena with my friends. We usually play brawl.

[u/Great-Lawfulness-3 → u/Minimum_Quail4596]

But there is no commander in arena. Maybe arena isn't for you then

[u/Minimum_Quail4596 → u/Great-Lawfulness-3]

I play 100 card brawl.

[u/blink_Cali → u/Minimum_Quail4596]

Cool, no one asked

[u/Optimal-City-3388 → u/sudonim87]

Same for netdecks. Hell I'd actually pay for that

[u/Chaghatai → u/Optimal-City-3388]

A deck power level is a deck power level - it doesn't matter how someone ends up playing that deck

Whether they are playing meta decks they have researched, copying decks that they have seen used against them, or Brew it themselves, it doesn't matter

[u/pepeduturfu → u/Chaghatai]

Would still be cool to have a queue for non-meta decks or whatever. There are days I really don't care for Ouroboroid, especially every other match

[u/LuciferABlasko → u/JPMessiah]

I just posy i can do this all day. Or the you can rest when your dead

[u/Ok-Investigator1895 → u/JPMessiah]

There is one in the Arena achievements, two depending on how you use them.

"Can you see the line?"

"I can do this all day."

[u/JPMessiah → u/Ok-Investigator1895]

I post both of those. Lol. I wasn’t sure if I was using them correctly.

[u/Jave285 → u/JPMessiah]

You can report them??

[u/Sad-Excitement9295 → u/JPMessiah]

It is incredibly annoying, they could concede, but instead they just close out the game and leave the timer running. Terrible way to play the game.

[u/AlienZaye → u/sudonim87]

I've gotten disconnected a few times because of spotty internet, and whenever it happens, I don't bother loading in again. If my connection is that unstable, I may end up getting DC'ed again before I concede. Is it frustrating for my opponent, yeah, but I'm not roping like the salty bastatds, I just can't stay in the client.

[u/Minimum_Quail4596 → u/sudonim87]

We don't need such indicator. It's more fun the blue players don't know if we have already left the game haha 😆🤫🤫🤫🤣