Once a Super-Titan, always a Super-Titan?

[bmike]

I would love it if the developers established some guidance on what it means to play in the leagues.

I'm not sure how best to implement it, but here are the things that should be penalized IMO:

If you leave other gamers hanging and are the reason for a 4 day game forfeiture - it should count double as a loss. You will know if you are going to be away from your device and should forfeit before you go, not leave people hanging. If you have a pattern of this (three incidents in a two week period) - you go back to Fluffy ranked with points one less than the last ranked player and are welcome to start working up. Everyone will know (temporarily) that the -1 player made a mistake, but can complete one game to erase that mark. If this is too harsh, then perhaps you get bumped down two leagues (Super-Titan->Gifted, Master->Clever)

You should be expected to start between 3 and 5 league games a week. This means that with the current 4 day timeout, even if you somehow get people that are awful, you will be doing your part to play and retain your spot. This way, the server side could run a script that shows what percentage of each league is actually playing and they can decide to rebalance, implement a timeout due to activity, etc...

Right now, there is no expectation as to what "league play" means - so it's hard to argue with someone that doesn't play and is sitting in Super Titan with 0 points but wants to hang on to that trophy more than putting it on the line and potentially losing.

If the leagues reflect winning rather than not losing, I think it will be a more fun place to be for everyone.