Is there any punishment for digging holes to stall?

Or are we fine with community cancers delaying every single game for 10 minutes while people look for holes and try to destroy the tunneling units?

http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/86932
http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/86943

Shadows kill those very well.

if you go after players doing such things you enter a gray area.
eventually somebody will claim that they "still had a chance to win" or whatever.
Such things should be better detected by the game?
eg make a team lose if
it has less than 10 units total
& it has no factories/eco/cons
& the enemy has 10 times the metal in units
& more than 15 minutes have passed.
& no damage was dealt to anything in last 2 minutes

(numbers made up)

Do it like warcraft. If one side had no structures, start one minute timer, then all their mobiles are perma-visible. Simple enough.

>>Essentially, this is griefing, and should be punishable in accord.

>if you go after players doing such things you enter a gray area. eventually somebody will claim that they "still had a chance to win" or whatever.

Trust the judgment of human moderators. In almost every case it's going to be obvious that the player is intentionally trying to ruin the game rather than play the game. In the rare case where a player genuinely thinks he is using a legitimate strategy, a moderator's warning can steer him straight.

That said, I do think it's possible to define a better set of game-over conditions that will cut down on this kind of behavior (GoogleFrog's valid concerns notwithstanding).

My eco victory idea would fix it. Works as simple like this:
Once team 1 has 100x more metal in units they automatically win. Team 1 is so far ahead that team 2 has no chance anymore.

I doubt you could find one where one team was behind 2x in units and won.

Wouldn't want to auto-end the game at that point, of course. I'm just sayin'. The game gets lopsided quickly.

Once few puppys won against thousands of krows.

Skasi there wasnt even a terraform hole .. or a comm..

There was a con underwater, doing nothing, just idle con.

And they were trying to kill it with detriment..

quote: Do it like warcraft. If one side had no structures, start one minute timer, then all their mobiles are perma-visible. Simple enough.

Walking tower can eat trees to make itself a passage to hide in.