Timeouting as increasing trend

Chaitan wrote:

The biggest timesink is the players who go to any length to improve odds.

Each phase must absolutely be carefully considered to be really over before moving to the next phase. Cards drawn from Heart of Nizchetus, Dreams of the Sphinx, Tablets and similar must be carefully considered one-by-one before finally finalizing. Each methuselah's ash heap must be scrutinized before any moderate to major decision can be made. Diplomacy is oh-so-important as well since you have a chance to escape any danger if you just manage to find the correct words to say - even if you have to lie. The threat of a timeout does not affect these players because speeding things up means they can make a critical mistake and they know a mistake can cost them the game.

In tournaments, most people turn into this obnoxious creature.

Non-existant user wrote:

Squidalot wrote:

The game wasn't designed to time out it was designed for people to die!

The game wasn't designed with a time limit.

Ankha wrote:

KevinM wrote:

If players and decks are better, and players have a better knowledge and awareness of the game, they should be PLAYING BETTER and not letting games time out.

Nothing personal, but you as well as other people seem to think that a timeout is a bad thing (since you state that if they were playing better, games wouldn't time out). Why?

Ankha wrote:

Many tables with excellent players will time out because they neutralize each other.

Ankha wrote:

The best player will try to maximize his points anyway.

Ankha wrote:

If there are more and more timeouts (which is the starting assumption of this thread), then it won't change anything for accessing the final because most tables will timeout (and players will score less points). The final threshold will be lower (and as much as hard to attain than today).