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In the past week or so I've had 2 players message me to say they're stopping playing and I could take the skull. Both of them resigned all their games and told me it was so I wouldn't get many points. One of them said he couldn't afford to lose to somebody with a low rating as I had.
Another one just resigned and told me it was a boring game.
Is this a common thing now?

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Originally posted by MilkyJoe
In the past week or so I've had 2 players message me to say they're stopping playing and I could take the skull. Both of them resigned all their games and told me it was so I wouldn't get many points. One of them said he couldn't afford to lose to somebody with a low rating as I had.
Another one just resigned and told me it was a boring game.
Is this a common thing now?
First I've heard of it.
Were the players non sub's like yourself?.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but having a maximum of, I think ,6 concurrent games they may just be being selective.
I've just renewed my subs again for about $30 U.S.Pretty cheap I'd say and as many games as you like.
Regarding ratings, I stopped taking notice of them years ago.
The only ones that have any meaning are the 1 yr and 5 yr max and the ones that are used for calculation are the current ones which can depend on timeout losses and deliberate resignations.

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I don't think they were subs, but they were both provisional. It was just weird I had 2 games within such a short time where I got a message saying they were resigning all their games just to give me their low rating win, and both said to take the skull.