Why do players resign at the very moment you are about to win?

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ClemFandango

It's very annoying. Just let me have my moment in the sun!

Ingix

See it from the other player's side. They lost, they know it and they watch helplessly as you go through the plays they know you can do to win. And then players tend to get as many points as possible, prolonging the last turn needlessly (from the loosing players point of view) by getting more coin and buys to get additional VP.

Remember that the person on the other side of an automatch is not your friend. They don't witness a friend getting an incredible turn, they see someone who wastes their time (and getting the VP piled on against you is of course also a slightly demotivating experience), so they end it. If you want to have your moment in the sun, continue the game with a bot. It is patient.

ClemFandango

I would if you could gain ELO when playing with bots!
I'm not talking about players resigning when you have lengthy winning turns or when there's no way they can win and it's just a case of waiting - I am talking about when you are one second away from ending the game....

LuminaLodge

I have to say I prefer it when people resign when they know they have lost.  I do that most of the time, and I'm thinking that I'm being polite!

It feels tiresome to me when people have clearly won, and they keep going to max points, when all they had to do was buy the curse, or get the single dutchy to win, for example. 

So I suppose there are clearly two sides to this!

Meadmaker

I know that when I see that I have eight gold available, and the last Province is available, I always stop my turn, buy it, and end the game.  I wish everyone did that.

I have probably been one of the people the OP talks about.  It's not often, but once in a while.  If I am the "culprit" in that situation, it means that they obviously have enough coins already on the table to win, but they are playing out a very lengthy turn anyway.  At some point, I get annoyed and want to leave, and I hit the resign button so I can go away.

Sometimes I wonder if people find it bad form to resign at all.  There are times when it's painfully obvious who is going to win by about turn 4, or 6 at the latest.  At that point, I have resigned, but I wonder if the opponent thinks that is bad form.

I suppose I come from Chess, where it's considered bad form to keep playing once it is obvious that you will lose.

leafyscreen

If they resign at the last second, they think they are protecting their ranking because they did not "lose". That would be incorrect.

There are several sides to the resign debate.

Resigning in a multiplayer game is never cool.

Resigning because you are going to lose deprives the other player from playing out a good deck. Now as long as that player does not drag out the game by continuing to buy action cards and money when they could be buying victory cards to bring the game to a close, to me that is OK. I will continue and see how much I can do.

However, if they continue to buy action cards and money in order to have a mega buy turn, I'm not sticking around for that. I'm especially not sticking around if they can play their entire deck and still keep buying actions and $, and double especially if said player has a hand size attack card they get to play every time and I'm playing with 3 cards every turn. If they don't show they are looking to end the game, I'm gone.

Or the obnoxious player in a Barbarian game that got the 2/5 split and picks up a Barbarian early. Then pick up another, and another, and another, etc while you struggle to get 5 to get even 1. Again, not showing an inclination to head toward winning and ending the game, but just getting their kicks seeing how much they can make you trash.