#151945: ""Incompatible Tasks" being abused"
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• Please copy/paste the error message you see on your screen, if applicable.
The game is meant to have hard task combos. Since the change to only one person needing to click Incompatible Tasks for a redeal, players are abusing the button and clicking incompatible just because they don't want the challenge.
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it's happened in many games
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Google Chrome v131
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The game is meant to have hard task combos. Since the change to only one person needing to click Incompatible Tasks for a redeal, players are abusing the button and clicking incompatible just because they don't want the challenge.
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• Is this text available in the translation system? If yes, has it been translated for more than 24 hours?
it's happened in many games
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v131
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• Please explain your suggestion precisely and concisely so that it's as easy as possible to understand what you mean.
The game is meant to have hard task combos. Since the change to only one person needing to click Incompatible Tasks for a redeal, players are abusing the button and clicking incompatible just because they don't want the challenge.
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v131
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• What was displayed on the screen when you were blocked (Blank screen? Part of the game interface? Error message?)
The game is meant to have hard task combos. Since the change to only one person needing to click Incompatible Tasks for a redeal, players are abusing the button and clicking incompatible just because they don't want the challenge.
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v131
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• Which part of the rules was not followed by the BGA adaptation?
The game is meant to have hard task combos. Since the change to only one person needing to click Incompatible Tasks for a redeal, players are abusing the button and clicking incompatible just because they don't want the challenge.
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• Is the rules violation visible on game replay? If yes, at which move number?
it's happened in many games
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v131
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• What was the game action you wanted to do?
The game is meant to have hard task combos. Since the change to only one person needing to click Incompatible Tasks for a redeal, players are abusing the button and clicking incompatible just because they don't want the challenge.
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• What did you try to do to trigger this game action?
it's happened in many games
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• What happened when you tried to do this (error message, game status bar message, ...)?
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v131
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• At which step of the game did the problem occur? What was the current game instruction?
The game is meant to have hard task combos. Since the change to only one person needing to click Incompatible Tasks for a redeal, players are abusing the button and clicking incompatible just because they don't want the challenge.
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• What happened when you tried to do this game action (error message, game status bar message, ...)?
it's happened in many games
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v131
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• Please describe the display issue. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use Imgur.com to upload it and copy/paste the link here.
The game is meant to have hard task combos. Since the change to only one person needing to click Incompatible Tasks for a redeal, players are abusing the button and clicking incompatible just because they don't want the challenge.
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v131
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• Please copy/paste the text displayed in English instead of your language. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use Imgur.com to upload it and copy/paste the link here.
The game is meant to have hard task combos. Since the change to only one person needing to click Incompatible Tasks for a redeal, players are abusing the button and clicking incompatible just because they don't want the challenge.
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• Is this text available in the translation system? If yes, has it been translated for more than 24 hours?
it's happened in many games
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v131
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• Please explain your suggestion precisely and concisely so that it's as easy as possible to understand what you mean.
The game is meant to have hard task combos. Since the change to only one person needing to click Incompatible Tasks for a redeal, players are abusing the button and clicking incompatible just because they don't want the challenge.
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v131
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Alternatively, make the Fail Mission button easier to find.
It should definitely require more than one player, as it is, it feels like the equivalent of letting anyone flip the table whenever they want. Very disruptive to the game.
Please. Anything.
So it sounds like the devs of this game understand why this is bad, and this is hopefully this just a bug instead of an intentional change.
The bug people were complaining about was getting into a stuck state, where no game actions are available. If all available tasks are unselectable for the active player (e.g. "win no subs" makes it back around to captain as last task), the game could automatically fail the mission. That takes care of the stuck state without opening up "incompatible tasks" to abuse.
I think introducing something impacting so many games, to fix an issue that has 41 votes over 2.5 years, is not a good tradeoff. Even if you do not fix that other bug, I would rather have a bug that occurs once every 100 games than this that happens in every other game.
I agree that the current behavior is too dangereous because it's too prone to misclick, but with a clear warning also stating "are you sure you really think the task are incompatible ? Have you discussed that with your teamates", it's up to the players to use this with caution. The crew is a coop game, if someone wants to ruin the game by playing solo, he can do it in multiple ways, with or without the incompatible tasks button thing.
There are other solutions for the "being stuck" complaints - make the Fail Mission button more visible, add clearer descriptions to the Incompatible Tasks & Fail Mission buttons, create a yes/no popup for everyone to agree to just like original Crew.
I've loved Deep Sea since alpha testing it with you over 3 years ago. Aside from some occasional games of original Crew, it's the only reason I'm even on BGA. But it's not worth playing anymore if the Incompatible button will not change.
1) Most of the reports are actually talking about getting into a stuck state, where no task game action is possible and a player is stuck watching their time tick down or they have to abandon. There are other ways to fix this (like detecting when none are selectable, and in that case either auto-failing or making all tasks selectable).
2) Most of the reports are coming from turn-based tables, where coordinating everyone hitting incompatible is a much larger endeavor, and one player could be stuck alone while the other players are unaware.
This might be a case where a good fix for a turn-based game is not a good fix for a real-time game. In real-time games (which is all I play), this has never been an issue. Someone would mention it in chat and problem is solved once we all hit incompatible.
But now real time players pay the price for this fix. Is there a solution to help out the turn based players and avoid the abuse in real time games?
Tasks (all to one player) were:
* Win 2 in a row
* Win g6
* Don't open a trick with pink/green
* Don't open a trick with pink/yellow/blue
A very interesting set. Winning two in a row without leading a color means the second trick has to be won by leading a sub. But then there's the problem of not being able to dump the lead after winning your second trick, which means we should plan to do this as the last two tricks. And the commander likely can't take the tasks, since they couldn't dump the lead initially.
So we're left with the most likely winning strategy being:
1. Someone who has a sub, but isn't the commander, takes the tasks
2. Keep the lead away from the person with the tasks, while everyone else tries to play all their subs.
3. They need to win the second-to-last trick, and then lead their sub to win the last trick.
But unfortunately, before we could all start solving the puzzle, a player saw "two in a row" and "can't open a trick with any color card", assumed it was impossible, and rerolled the tasks. People must think they are using the button correctly, because the most interesting puzzles (that are challenging but not quite impossible) are always the ones that get reset with this button.
If you need something for TB:
* when someone click incompatible, pause and trigger everyone to agree it is, or not...
* if a second player agrees it is... ok, you might want to change
* if a second player says no, call the first player reassess also... comment in chat might have said it was not
* players can change their votes
* if all voters agree it is not, just continue
* if all but the 1st player agree it is not incompatible, continue... and prevent that player from asking again to prevent abuse
I was told i was cheating....
I am a real time player, but I understand the constraints relative to Turn Base tables.
I suggest to find a solution where turn based players are warned that a vote about incompatible tasks is running.
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