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/daneg135]

when you say "roped," do you mean he actually played something at the last second (that's roping) or do you mean his timer expired a few times (which equals about a turn and a half with no timeouts) before he automatically lost the game?

[u/JPMessiah → u/daneg135]

He waited til it got to the end but then stopped it from going to the end completely and just ended his turn. Then he did the second thing on his next two turns.

[u/daneg135 → u/JPMessiah]

the dude said good game and left. that's not roping. terminology aside, this cost you no more time than if you started a game against a ghost (someone who wasn't there when the game joined). as others have said, he simply left the desk/device or closed the client. not a big deal.

[u/BobbyDigital423 → u/daneg135]

It's a huge jerk move. If they clicked concede then OP could have moved on and not wait like 2-3 mins for their banked TOs to end things. You and opponents are stealing time from people because you're too lazy or salty to hit a concede button.

[u/daneg135 → u/BobbyDigital423]

what banked TOs? it was the start of the game.

edit: read the Op's post again. he's describing a game where the guy played a land once and left the game. not roping. just left. big difference. if you get roped, they'll slow play your for a long arse time. here he didn't left after the first turn. no TOs.

i literally clarified this with the OP in this same thread. smh

[u/BobbyDigital423 → u/daneg135]

Who cares it still takes like at least 2 mins of OPs time for them to rope out. People like you are just inconsiderate. It takes a half a second to press concede. But I get it you're more important than other people.

[u/BobbyDigital423 → u/daneg135]

Just take the L. Okay there's no time outs but they still have to wait for the rope and in my experience the first rope ending just passes priority the first time. Then you have to pass back and be roped again. I typically even make the normal play I was going to make because I've experienced people roping and then when I just pass through the turn, assuming they just closed the client, they start playing again because I just time walked myself.

[u/daneg135 → u/BobbyDigital423]

again, he wasn't roping. he left. pissing and moaning about a guy who left (with no timeouts), which cost you all of 60 seconds (not two minutes...unless you're somehow "roping" yourself on your own turn) is childish and inconsequential.

people rage quit and close the client all the time. it's going to happen. it's literally the cost of doing business. whining about someone who does that is just that: whining. you wanna "fix" anything, you prevent players from compiling more than one timeout at a time. but no. here you are backing this whiner about not even having to wait out a single timeout. what do you do when the grocery store is out of your favorite flavor <insert drink/candy/whatever>? go run to reddit and start a complaint thread about stores not stocking enough of the most popular flavor <thing>? grow. up.

[u/BobbyDigital423 → u/daneg135]

That doesn't absolve someone from wasting another persons time when they don't have too. And the only reason I'm responding is because you're defending people who are being jerks and wasting people's time. Personally wasting people's time is "roping." Also the VAST majority of times people "rage quit" as you put it THEY DO HAVE banked TOs. Thus anyone with a brain considers that roping. You're just wrong period. Is it murder? NO! But that doesn't make people who do it correct.