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Yeah, I'm definitely guilty of this myself sometimes.

I think the main reason people do it is because it's fun to see numbers turn into bigger numbers. Sometimes there's an element of showing off as well. I usually don't mind it when my opponent does it. After all, usually I find it's just buying a duchy and an estate in addition to the last province or something. That doesn't take up that much time, and I don't want to begrudge anyone their oppurtunity to get those last few points.

That being said, it's perfectly reasonable that you find this annoying. It's certainly annoying if, say, they three-pile midturn but then they keep on playing a complicated deck to buy 3 provinces instead of just 1. In those cases I usually resign. I can see how even the duchy-estate thing could get on some people's nerves. I'm just not super bothered by it myself.

LOL I probably come off as a petty b!**h in the OP. As much as I'd like to say "I'm not super bothered either", obviously it bothers me enough to make a post :P

And yes, I actually usually prevent this from even happening by resigning before they get to the buy phase of the last turn, if not several turns before the would-be last turn (I also have gripes about people who don't resign lol, but that's for another day).

I can think of two-three possible reasons.
1.  You want to see your max score, just for your own edification.
2.  You want to practice for your In Real Life games.  In IRL games, of course, you do not have an accurate running total of how many VP you have, nor how many your opponent has. So, obviously, it would make sense (esp in games that use alternate VP as well) to get as many points as possible, to give yourself a good margin of error, in case you have miscalculated your rough estimate about how you are doing in that game.  I think that good practicing (ie, online) makes it more likely that you'll do the same in games you play IRL.
3.  Related to #2.  Even though you are playing online, some people deliberately are not looking at the VP counters.  I do this...I put Post-It notes on my screen, to cover up the running scores.  Good practice for me, for my IRL games.

And there might be other reasons I am overlooking...these are just off the top of my head.

My general rule is:  Don't get offended (in everyday life, and in Dom. games) if there's a reasonable innocuous explanation.  I would look to the game chat.  If the opponent is making mocking or mean comments, then she is probably acting in bad faith.  But without those comments--esp if you two are playing a series of fun games--I'd assume good faith.

My two cents only.  YMMV.

Agree wholeheartedly in that I always assume best intentions. I should make it clear that I don't think in any single case of this I remember the person was intentionally being a d!*k in doing so.

I'm borderline getting into an "online discussion" here, which I at my ripe age of 31 should know better. Nonetheless, I think from a utilitarian perspective it's best if the winning player just minimized clicks to end game.

I'm not disagreeing with your reasons or anyone else's (practicing for real life is certainly a good one, assuming you're actually trying to memorize your and your opponent's VPs). I think we probably just differ in how much we value those reasons over the reasons not to.

I believe it is NOT the same running the last several weeks' worth as a batch at once vs. having it run everyday.

Your previous score factors into the rating change. So running it once as a batch you're making one update using your previous score, whereas having it run everyday your previous score changes every time.

So, if we run the update tonight, your score after the batch update would be different than it would be if updates were run every night previous to tonight. Thee difference might not be much, but it'll be different.

Almost everyone does this (I personally never do). Let's say you're going to win on this turn. Instead of buying the minimum required to win the game, say the last province, you buy the maximum possible with your coins and # of buys.

That always leaves a poor taste for me. At a minimum, you're wasting time for yourself clicking extra, and for others waiting for you to finish clicking. Taken further, it's just poor sportsmanship running up the score for literally no difference.

When there's no VP counter this is obviously justified, but with VP counter this is just pointless.

It's not the same as sports teams going hard all game because it's not over till it's over. What I'm saying here is when it's already 100% over, why run up the score at the cost of extra time wasted/poor taste for literally 0 benefit.

Maybe I'm sensitive, but convince me that there's value in "maximizing scoring on your last/winning turn".

@Gold

That's what I thought.

But... I guess (and ofc I'm only guessing) the problem is a too complex calculation with no optimization (which wasn't necessary before the world wide lockdown)


So I'm pretty optimistic with some optimization or a changed calculation method the ratings will be back.

+1

all done thnx hun!

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@Ingix Thank you for the explanations. Being in IT myself, I'm slightly worried about the massive load to the system to update a couple of weeks worth (if not more) of game logs, when 1 day's game log was already causing such slowness supposedly. And I would definitely not be happy if these couple of weeks' game logs are NOT uploaded...

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3rd game number lost

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