Game Queues and GMs

External Since: Aug 12, 2005 Posts: 6

Hi,

I have a question about the actions of some GMs that use the game
queues. If a player signs up to the game queues, is that a guarantee
that they will be placed into a game? The reason I ask is that I have
seen GMs take names off of the game queue and then not place the player
in their games without telling them. Then the players have to waste
more time getting their name back on the queue and also waiting for the
next game.
If GMs are allowed to do this, then what is stopping a random person
from just purposing empty the game queues without creating a game?

Thanks.

External Since: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 13

Zero wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about the actions of some GMs that use the game
> queues. If a player signs up to the game queues, is that a guarantee
> that they will be placed into a game? The reason I ask is that I have
> seen GMs take names off of the game queue and then not place the player
> in their games without telling them. Then the players have to waste
> more time getting their name back on the queue and also waiting for the
> next game.
> If GMs are allowed to do this, then what is stopping a random person
> from just purposing empty the game queues without creating a game?
>
> Thanks.
>

If there is a problem with a specific GM, then you should report that to
Millis who can take an appropriate action. As someone who does use the
queue to set up games, I find that, especially in the novice queue, I
need to invite in excess of 15 players to fill a single game. Usually I
send two invitations, one when I first set up the game and a follow up a
day later. If there is no response in 48 hours, I invite more. If you
are not getting an invitation within a day of the queue telling you that
a game has been set up, send mail to the GM who pulled your name. I
suspect that over active spam filtering is part of the problem. There
are also players who have landed on my personal blacklist who I will
write to tell them to rejoin the queue, as I will not let them play.
Usually this is due to abandoning games before they are finished or very
excessive lateness. I don't believe it is fair to the other players to
invite someone who is known to be a problem.

Hope that helps,
Alan