I'm with hedja, too.

That's the whole point of the boot rating.

If you really feel you've "changed" in some significant way, start a new profile. But even if you don't, your percentage should go down fairly quickly.

Total boot percentage over your time at Warlight seems like a fair representation to me.

Another suggestion for a simple implementation:

"[Player] has been booted [X] times (XX.X%). Most recent boot was on [date]."

We need MD and RT boots separated for sure, I think

I agree with this, usually getting booted from real time games and multi day games are results of very different kinds of situations and should be listed separately as well as combined.

@M. Poireau

1. In order to reduce your boot % by half you have to dobble your number of games you have played, without getting booted. For any "Veteran" that is a long time.

2.Most recent boot was on [date]. YES! (preferably say "This player was last booted X DAYS ago")

3. Start a new profile is a bad solution. For what I believe is obvious reasons.

@Epicular

Yup, we need them combined too.

Edited 6/5/2015 00:45:30

TBest those are the worst ones, but there isn't much you can do about those boots. Nearly all of mine have come from forgetting I am playing a game at that moment, close the tab and get booted. Now I just try to play less RT unless I know I am going to be sitting in front of the computer for the next hour or so.

Very good suggestion Poireau, that's the one thing on this thread which doesn't seem like an addition which could complicate the boot stats too much on a profile and it tells others when the last boot was, like when you last relapsed and took drugs, which could be a good incentive for people to not get booted as it would mean restarting the clock.

The current system is perfect the way it is.

logically, if boots expired from your rates. then so would games..

If your boots from 3 months + expired, then that would mean your boot rate would = your boots in last 3 / your games in last three.
and I feel that most people that had boots recently would see an avid increase in their boot rates.

However, I feel if this were implemented, it would need to be implemented *alongside* the current boot rates.
low duration boot rates *3-6-12 months* could show people that tend to go inactive mid game and cause disturbances in RT games, while long duration boot rates *lifetime* could show people that have done bad in the past, or who will regularly leave WL due to IRL obligations *or just boredom* and would be less reliable in MD games.

and Benjamin, you've had 241 boots in 266 days... there is no reason why you shouldn't have a black mark on your record... logically speaking, if I played a MD game with you, I would *expect* you to get booted within the first 40 days, presuming it lasts longer than that, as you have 40 games, and you average little under a boot a day.
If you don't want a bad boot record, don't play more games than you can handle.

Thats the entire time I've been playing Warlight. I haven't been booted in 3 weeks, and have been booted 5 times in 3 months.

Either way Benjamin, sounds like your regularly biting off more than you can chew. I make it a point to make sure I do not join a game that I don't feel I can make sure I take my turn within the allotted time, and also don't have more games going than what I think I can manage and keep up with, hence I have only been booted from 2 games, EVER.

Boot rate is well deserved. No offense. I dont care if I play with a person with a high % because I know I can win easily. Also in my opinion, boot rate doesnt show us the level or strenght of a player. Also, it doesnt mean he/she is lazy. Many factors can affect the boot rate. My only proposal is to eliminate that restriction about % boot rate while creating new games.

I think a graph of average boot number over last 45 days (where applicable) and next 45 days (where applicable) would work (so boots only apply for 90 days, but people can easily see trends)

My only proposal is to eliminate that restriction about % boot rate while creating new games.

No. Just no. You're now defeating half the purpose of boot rates.

Again, we just need to list more info than we do now. Such as a graph. Or another rate for the past 90 days.

I love playing 2vs2 RT games on rather big maps.
In the last 30 or so games I played 25 where 2vs1 from turn 1!!!
cause ppl joined them but seemed to have no intention to really play them thats why we need bootrates so we can exclude players like that.
sadly however most of these ppl where lvl 1 with a 0% bootrate....

Pretty sure open seat prerequisites can disclude lvl 1 players.

I don't know that they should expire. I would like to know, like hedja said. Also, it diminishes the people who take pride in not getting booted. I went like two years without a single boot, and I loved that %0 on my profile. Then I had a PC issue, got the blemish and now the %1 looks so much worse than %0 to me.

But I would like to see them separated by RT vs Multi Day.

I have some boots when my PC locked up, internet went down, or my phone goes in a dead zone while playing RT. It is vastly different than MD games with 3 day boot.

Edited 6/9/2015 19:57:30

Games can be greatly improved with strict boot rate prerequisites. If any additional boot data is given (# or % booted in the last 100 days for example) I would hope additional prerequisite options for filtering by those numbers would be available as well.

I see no need for a change though. If you feel your boot tendency is unfairly represented by your past, you need to create a new account and proceed to get booted less often.

My boot rate is high because I lost access to the internet for a month and was booted from around 75 games. I am not going to "just start a new account".