If you were playing a board game with some friends, and things weren't looking good for you, would you just leave?

If the game is just not going well for you, stick it out, take revenge, manipulate the others, have fun.

If you've found you have joined too many games, then odds are you'll be eliminated from a few soon enough and then you'll be set.

If you are going to be gone for some time, ask for a pause, or try and find a sitter. If you've decided you don't like the game, find a sitter to finish up your games for you. Sitters need to be people that are not in any of the same games as you.

I want to leave a game is the reason not to play in low point games. Not to be harsh, but joining a game is a committment, to the other players and even to Alan Calhamer, that you will play to the end even if you are getting beat, even if you are stabbed, even if you are called by the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. I am sick of people who sign up for games and then leave somewhere along the way, sometimes don't even show up for the first more. It's called Diplomacy for a reason. Sorry to seem harsh, but it pisses me off and I lost enough to know what it's like to stay when there is no chance.

The reason why I left a game was because I wanted to Pause it because it was like 10:30 and I was sleepy. BUT NO ONE VOTED TO PAUSE.

So, you play you don't leave. Sorry you missed that part of the game. I also find people who think they are owed pauses any time they like selfish and really bad at planning. On the other hand, I don't play games with deadlines shorter than 24 hours so I might have a different opinion if I did.

thats the lesson i learned yesterday.

Whereas I'm the opposite - I'm more likely to go for short-phase games since then I can allocate a 3hr block to diplomacy and know I'll play it out. Either way, don't give up!

Well, then it would be nice to see you in a game when you get some more points. By the way, if you reallly need a pause, like for the birth of a child or a sick relative, even I grant pauses, but you have to give us notice and reason. Pauses take time to agree to,not like a FTF game where you can all decide to go to lunch or start up tomorrow.

i understand that if i leave a game in the midle it ruins it for others
but i started the world variant then realized i dont like it at all
before i started to play
so if there was a"leave the game button" someone else could play

this siter thing
how does it work?

@taos - so you don't like it. Don't ruin it for the rest of the players by quitting. Remember, quitters never win and winners never quit.

If you really want to leave, just start attacking everyone near you. Everyone.

+1 SacredDigits: Especially in the world game - you won't have to worry for more than a year or two. Throw in a couple of witty (I said witty, not offensive) insults in chat towards every nation surrounding you and that should be enough to get you out of the game.

You can always just loose? It is not really hard to get all of your neighbors angry at you and move away from all of your supply centers to let them walk in. Perhaps you can even have fun manipulating them in the mean time. Most people can loose within a game year, or at most 2

How do you loose a game? Do you let it off its leash and see if it will run into the wild? Oh! You means *lose*!

ok
thanks
now
how do i get a sitter and how does it work?

Unfortunately there is no official support for sitters, where you could temporarily or permanently hand off a game to another user to play for your in your absence.

All you can do is find someone that will sit your account for you while you are away. That means changing your password to a temporary value and sharing it with that person. Then when you are back, you log on and change your password back to whatever you want it to be. But be sure you can trust the person sitting your account since anything they do as you counts against you.

If you need a sitter, I have done it for three folks thus far.
I'm #45 in GR and as you can see from my record, have never CD'd.
Happy to sit for you and try to win.
Email me at [email protected]

and good for you for not just walking away from the game.

(and next time, don't start 9 games at the same time lol)