Remove karma upper limit (it is being abused)

17 votes

I suggest that the upper limit for karma of 20 be revised or removed. Once players have completed 20 games they can then complete only every second game without any real penalty, since their karma score will only fluctuate between 19 and 20. I don't need to explain to anyone here how frustrating it is when unethical players leave a game after a bad start or for other poor reasons.

Also, 20 is not a large enough upper limit to allow other players to gauge the experience of the player. A player who has completed 20 games can have the same karma as a player who has played hundreds of games. It would be useful to be able to gauge experience levels via karma score. This second point may overlap with other suggestions for a separate 'experience' feature.

Many thanks. Love you work!

Under consideration Suggested by: Jarrod (19 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 10 Jul, '23 • Comments: 6

Comments: 6

21 Jun, '20
Austin Admin
"You should let the Karma limit go higher than 20" (suggested by Blake on 2020-06-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
23 Jun, '20
Martin0
Correct me if I'm wrong, but karma is based on your last 20 games, correct?
So after you have completed 20 games, then after completing a new game the 21st last game is no longer used and the newest game is included instead. So if you have 20/20 karma and start completing only every 2nd game your karma will slowly move towards 10/20.
28 Jun, '20
Jarrod
I think I had that part wrong Martin0. Thanks for the clarification!
02 Sep, '20
Stormwarrior
Have the karma come back after x number of not left games rather then on a timed cycle as well, so it rewards players for changing their horrible leaver ways. >:(
02 Sep, '20
Stroom
I guess quitting should have a penalty higher than 1. Max karma as 100 and a penalty of 10?
08 Jan, '23
Leso
how about this:

lets say a player has played 100 games... he quit 5 of them, his karma rating would be 95/100

lets say a player has played 453 games, he quit 13 of them his karma rating would be 440/453

of course, that would be a lot of numbers on screen, so there could be colors, green light for best karma (85% completed or higher), yellow for medium 70-85% , red for bad (70% or lower). hover over will show the (games completed , of game started, stat eg. 95/100)

this does two things,

a) what their quitting history is
b) what their experience playing is (at a glance- so no need to open profile to see how many games they have played)