Can't create game with specific side any more

@PenguinWife said in #284:

Spoken like a true totalitarian. You are unhappy because the players were happy using their free will. I'm almost 100% certain that you are the type of person who constantly push their narrative on others in real life because you think it's the right way to go.

I am happy that people are now all using their free will and are not being forced by other players to play under their unfair settings! It is the perfect solution to treat everyone fairly :!

@vasyattt said in #283:

and I forgot most similar: Everyone must be heterosexual
( stay in line and play both sides :) )
no exceptions, no exclusions, no excuses! :D
JUST LIBERTY :D

Still:
I'm just the guy in favor of rules where everybody is treated fairly and the same, if you think that's advocating a bad thing, I'm okay with that.

You want to decide for others that they should play on unfair settings, I don;t. Spin it however you like about your rights being taken away, you can still choose this, but only with people that choose so :)

@PenguinWife said in #286:

Absolutely not. You are wrong and/or a troll that just enjoys stigmatizing the other players.

Nope, I'm just happy that there is fairness now! :D You can still play 1000 games in a row with white, but only if the other person agrees. Glad we finally have fairness, and no way for others to abuse fair people with their exploitative behavior

@RickRenegade said in #276:

@NotTakenUsername

Good question. Answer - Laziness. It's easier them to block the option for all games.

It was the same question when they blocked hyperbullet games for variants. (Some people were farming for ratings).
They could have left the option to play casual games, but they didn't.

That sucks big time.
I didnt know that about the hyperbullet variants, it doesnt make sense, cant they farm rating by playing bullet?
Why are people defending such sloppy ''updates''?

@NotTakenUsername said in #289:

That sucks big time.
I didnt know that about the hyperbullet variants, it doesnt make sense, cant they farm rating by playing bullet?
Why are people defending such sloppy ''updates''?

I could think of another argument I think. I believe ultrabullet was inviting a lot of automated programs to be used to move ultra-fast. Leaving this time control in Casual would not actually mitigate the problem, as the cheaters/botters would still be spamming their bots on this timecontrol.

Same goes for the color settings, and probably the 300-move rule. . If the option is there, people will abuse it. So the option is then to remove it to keep things fair for everyone

@PenguinWife said in #291:

Sure "BeDecentForAChange" who joined 1 month ago. I'm sure you are a very decent person for naming yourself this way. Something tells me this is not your first account by the way you are behaving and gaslighting. Ranked open challenges are not tournaments and people who joined a queue were doing so knowing fully they could be paired against white or black. The player that made the lobby chose the color, as they should be able to do so, or random or black, it's their free will. You will never ever convince me otherwise even if you reformulated yourself a thousand time.

yes my username is a great argument to make!

No, if you play auto-matched games you should be matched with people that play under fair circumstances. They have fixed this now, so everyone in favor of fairness and freedom is excited about this.

I am not trying to convince you, you have abused the system by playing over 8000 games with white. and onlye 170 or so with black. I'm just happy that they finally made sure that fairness and freedom a given!

@Sofia-Mary said in #293:

Yes, it is gaslighting.

Wrong again. It's standing up for people to be treated fairly.

@blerdingofall said in #290:

I could think of another argument I think. I believe ultrabullet was inviting a lot of automated programs to be used to move ultra-fast. Leaving this time control in Casual would not actually mitigate the problem, as the cheaters/botters would still be spamming their bots on this timecontrol.

Same goes for the color settings, and probably the 300-move rule. . If the option is there, people will abuse it. So the option is then to remove it to keep things fair for everyone

How can allowing choosing color in casual games be exploited by bots? I really cant see how removing this option helps against botting in any way. And how will people abuse the ability to choose color in casual games?

@BeDecentForAChange said in #294:

Wrong again. It's standing up for people to be treated fairly.

For this evening
I said good night to you, Mr. or Mrs. We see other time. Good night again.

@NotTakenUsername said in #295:

How can allowing choosing color in casual games be exploited by bots? I really cant see how removing this option helps against botting in any way. And how will people abuse the ability to choose color in casual games?

Noo, the bots were being used in Ultrabullet, so only removing it from Rated games would not have mitigated the problem of said bots for that time control.

As for choosing color in casual games, from what I gather the owner has said that people use this feature to exclusively play white a lot, and from what I read here that's definitely the case. If exploiting that feature causes some type of issue, I can see how just removing it from rated games would be ineffective as you would just move the problem to another pool.

I would be interested to learn if they will go into details about the change, there seems to be a lot of questions about it