<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Urban-Rivals - Message Board - Staff's announcements: Fair play]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></link><description><![CDATA[Urban Rivals, fight, level up, trade.]]></description><ttl>40</ttl><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:41:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[TouchMeSoftly]]></title><pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:41:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I wish]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></guid><author><![CDATA[no-reply@urban-rivals.com (TouchMeSoftly)]]></author><comments><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></comments></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Unkown]]></title><pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:18:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Really is there guild over that would be exciting.]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></guid><author><![CDATA[no-reply@urban-rivals.com (The Unkown)]]></author><comments><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></comments></item><item><title><![CDATA[TouchMeSoftly]]></title><pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:07:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[THANK U FRAGGLE]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></guid><author><![CDATA[no-reply@urban-rivals.com (TouchMeSoftly)]]></author><comments><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></comments></item><item><title><![CDATA[TouchMeSoftly]]></title><pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:07:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I guess the guild 6SIMS is over LOL]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></guid><author><![CDATA[no-reply@urban-rivals.com (TouchMeSoftly)]]></author><comments><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></comments></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultima20X6]]></title><pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:46:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I think you have to really slap down on deliberate timeouts, because in tournaments you get jerks who timeout on last card when they will definitely lose.(3% chance to cause a draw) someguy drew out 20 minutes of tournament time because he wasn't winning.]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></guid><author><![CDATA[no-reply@urban-rivals.com (Ultima20X6)]]></author><comments><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></comments></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coure]]></title><pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:54:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[And, sorry to say, it is just as annoying no matter why it is timing out]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></guid><author><![CDATA[no-reply@urban-rivals.com (Coure)]]></author><comments><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></comments></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyberriuss]]></title><pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2006 04:43:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Quite simple: if you get a red face for letting 10% of your battles time out and let's say you let 10 battles out of 100 time out then to reach 1% you would have to fight 1000 ( another 900 ) clean matches and then you would have 10 time-outed fights out of 1000 which means about 1% time-outed fights<br />
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Simple, Right? <link href="http://s.ccdn.ur-img.com/css/sprites/smileys.css?v=1318423583" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/><br />
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What happens is the &amp;quot;bait&amp;quot; person usually someone higher level, just sits around and fails to answer challenges. This holds up other people who are in the tournament, because they're on a timer waiting for their challenge to be answered. I would assume there's more to this scheme, since that alone accomplishes little. What I would guess is happening is that these &amp;quot;bait&amp;quot; people only answer one or two people's challenge, and purposely lose to them gaining their guildmates and friends, major points. <br />
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Now certainly the newly installed system has made some leaps and strides towards making the tournaments more fair. I've already seen improvements in todays tournaments. But nailing the idlers and people failing to answer challenge will put the final nails in the coffin of the cheaters who would have to go through elaborate means just to ensue that they can cheat their way to winning. Sure someone will find a way, but it makes it a lot harder.]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></guid><author><![CDATA[no-reply@urban-rivals.com (StormWhisper)]]></author><comments><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></comments></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraggle]]></title><pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:12:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[First, to answer someone's question, no, you'll not get a lower rating if the match has not begun and it expired.<br />
Second, the info when -receiving- challenges will be added soon.<br />
Third, not answering challenge will not be &amp;quot;the new way to beat the system&amp;quot; as it is really not useful to be in a game just to <br />
&amp;quot;not answer challenges&amp;quot; (and you cannot send a challenge if you haven't answered a waiting one).<br />
And last but not least, as already said, in <a href="http://www.urban-rivals.com/game/rules.php?show=elo">ELO</a>, if someone let the game timeout, he will be -punish- at the end of the day <br />
(severly). (and the ratio of &amp;quot;timed out&amp;quot; games in <a href="http://www.urban-rivals.com/game/rules.php?show=elo">elo</a> vs &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; games in quite fine)<br />
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You have to understand that it is NOT possible to avoid all the problems if some people just don't want to play fair.<br />
For example, some people dont &amp;quot;let the game timeout&amp;quot; as a strategy but simply quit because they don't like to lose, over time <br />
they will become orange, then red, and nobody will want to play with them.. maybe they will learn <span class="sprite-smileys mini1_happy iepng"></span><br />
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With over 600 players connected at time, I'm sure you'll be able to find the right peoples. <span class="sprite-smileys mini1_happy iepng"></span>]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></guid><author><![CDATA[no-reply@urban-rivals.com (Fraggle)]]></author><comments><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></comments></item><item><title><![CDATA[hudy]]></title><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[And how U want to eliminate playest who are invisible?<br />
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The best will be to have this smile beside chalenge offer too<br />
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Plus now what happened to me. I was chlanged by one I accept battle but he do not played and in the batle I was chalanged by someone else.]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></guid><author><![CDATA[no-reply@urban-rivals.com (hudy)]]></author><comments><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></comments></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kedanna]]></title><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:04:06 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mmm maybe more of an ignore list, like if you know someone plays slow, or doesn't answer, you can add them to a list, where you will no longer see that person?]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></guid><author><![CDATA[no-reply@urban-rivals.com (Kedanna)]]></author><comments><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></comments></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coure]]></title><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:56:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[None of this solves the problem of people simply leaving after the 3rd round. They may not get any points (for ELO) but neither do you. If all my games had been completed I would have had more points over the month]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></guid><author><![CDATA[no-reply@urban-rivals.com (Coure)]]></author><comments><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></comments></item><item><title><![CDATA[StormWhisper]]></title><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:22:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This is definately a step in the right direction. Can you add people just not answering challenges to this meter as that will immediately become the new way to &amp;quot;Beat the system&amp;quot;]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></guid><author><![CDATA[no-reply@urban-rivals.com (StormWhisper)]]></author><comments><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></comments></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Ravenshadow]]></title><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:39:42 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Any chance we could have the little faces show when someone challanges you?<br />
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Love the idea, but it only seems useful when you are the person doing the challanging.]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></guid><author><![CDATA[no-reply@urban-rivals.com (A Ravenshadow)]]></author><comments><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></comments></item><item><title><![CDATA[1st_Griffin]]></title><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:52:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I had the same problem as kedanna,but 3 times]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></guid><author><![CDATA[no-reply@urban-rivals.com (1st_Griffin)]]></author><comments><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></comments></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kedanna]]></title><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:49:38 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Aslo, I would love to see the cute smily faces on the rankings page too if that would be possablie.]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></guid><author><![CDATA[no-reply@urban-rivals.com (Kedanna)]]></author><comments><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></comments></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kedanna]]></title><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:45:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I've had a problem myself a few times, when I'll ask someone to play, and then later rather getting a reply from them, getting a message saying the game has timed out. Is that an error on my side or on the games side? I'd hate to be anything but green if I can help it.]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></guid><author><![CDATA[no-reply@urban-rivals.com (Kedanna)]]></author><comments><![CDATA[http://www.urban-rivals.com/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&id_subject=10793&language=2]]></comments></item></channel></rss>