or justr switch it of when a game starts up and back on when the game finished.

Ban for respecting flags.

chat is part of the game, this is not a game against bots but versus humans

The idea of chat free games has been raised before, one step further is chat free + cloacked identities.

The creator of this site has not provided us those chat free tables yet so I can advise you to chat during games or you will get killed more often.

i advise you to hide the chat and get used to reading the board and fighting 1v2 or 1v3.

I do chat but i dont flag one player....i just played a game and someone flagged in round 2..i rest my case.

im a chatwhore, and manip the shit out of games, and gain more points by playing like a pussy.

but even i think the early vflags are out of control. ive suggested it before, and will do so again: get rid of chat for first 3 rounds.

come to think of it , it would get rid of most early vflags

but probably people will find a way of signaling it, maybe by sitting out + sitting in 3 times in a row or something.

It still would be harder to ruin games though, so if enough people support it, I could suggest it to Ryan.

How about giving the choice? a set of no early chat tables (clearly marked) and the normal ones?

Elo era flags would solve a ton of problems, also fix dom.

This would create the ideal place for a PGA; so no point.

any system can be turned into an ideal place for pga, so no point for you either.

The only system that would reduce pga chances a bit would be a tourney type of start of games. 21 or 28 people need to join. It starts when all seats are filled and people get randomly distributed over 3 or 4 tables. Maybe start with less people each table if it takes too long to fill all seats before a set amont of time). if A and B intend to pga, 75% of the time, they won't be on the same table.

This system isn't practical in the current state of the site. Not enough players are around to fill enough tables in time. You can't ask people to wait longer than 10 minutes for a game to start. You could overcome this by only having 0, 500 ish and 2000 ish table limits + lower max points for each limit so that all 3 types of tables get roughly the same amount of players.

This system will probably lead to the formation of bigger "gangs" who will sit 5 or more so odds are good so that everybody has at least one pga buddy on his table.