Pick one:
1) you are sometimes forced to concede a game that you were losing that wasn't necessarily lost.
2) you must wait until the porcer off in some corner somewhere loses their last athena hiding up in the hills before starting a new game. Every team game. No exceptions. None.

Agreed. Someone should go ahead and do that.

Well... not to those specifications but you get what I mean.

The current outmetal condition that is used for LOS hacks would be ok for a force resign imo. It's not like you could win against an enemy who sees you every move and has much more metal available anyway. (Teams only)

The resign vote should either require a specific fraction of the team's total ELO (or some better metric that doesn't suffer from offsets) or just be replaced by a 100% requirement. I don't see it being used to save a lot of time in big team games(The porcnub usually doesn't hold a second vs 10 enemies).

PS: Here is another great use of !voteresign from the same day: B425557 6 on Desert_Plateaus

The condition might be wrong sometimes. But then the LOS hax should be removed as well.

Did the "numerical advantage" message appear in the linked game? If yes I'm definitely gonna have to watch it, because winning against an enemy that has full LOS on every of your units while being at a major metal disadvantage must be hard.

The porcnub usually has cloaked BS and all their allies holdings to mess with. "Fight 'til your dying breath" is a really common mentality, and with one room mentality the reality is that hours of time is wasted due to sloppy win cons on a daily basis. In a 20 player game, the one person holding out for three minutes costs the collective an entire hour. In a 'sloppy' game players can have so much built up porc that they can extend it well past this point.

It's awkward, because "fight 'til dying breath" is a really good mentality once you're a strong player. The more allies that leave the greater the impact you have on a game. In regard to this, we're forced to say "do as we say, not as we do", which is a rubbish way to influence people. A newer or lower rated player needs to accept the reality of their own limited ability before resigning on time is a concern for them, which also doesn't help.

If I'm playing to win, I can't resign if I still see a way to take the game back. But if the rules for winning were changed, I wouldn't have that 'choice' and we'd be onto the next game already. IMO we should be maximising the amount of time people are playing the contentious part of the game, and this should come at the expense of the cleanup/tryhard phase. If we accidentally cut down on the number of resign votes in doing so... well... that's a risk I'm willing to take.