The lose points feature has always had a giant loophole. If a player does not provide any answer to a question with the lose-points feature, they’re not penalized with negative points. Their score remains the same. This compromises the integrity of the game when this feature is turned on.
No, this update does not address this issue. However, we will be adding that soon. Thanks for checking in and keeping us on task. We’ll report back here once it has been added.
I couldn’t disagree more, I think it’s fantastic that people have three outcomes, answer correctly win points answer incorrectly lose points or don’t play the question for safety reasons. Really hope this does not get changed.
This is the essence of Crowdpurr feature development! Moving in some direction satisfies one group, but displeases another. This is literally why there are so many settings and switches in the app. We’ve always tried to please everyone over the years.
I do actually agree with @gnip, that if you have any of the “lose points if incorrect” settings enabled, the player should indeed lost points for a non-answer. Especially for a Points Wager question. That defeats the purpose if you put up a big wager and then a non-answer doesn’t cost you anything.
We’re going to be working on this and it sounds like we’ll need a switch to help with it. Probably makes sense to put it right here and have it called something like Lose Points For Not Answers? and I think it should be enabled by default.
I’ve found that with using a decreasing point value based on speed coupled with only losing partial points is enough to create a wide enough spread of scores that I’m not as worried about non answers not resulting in anything positive or negative. The only place where it seems important to me is the wager, as you just need to max it out every time and can back out without penalty.
I will say that I prefer to use non answers as no points in corporate event games, because sometimes a player has to leave for a meeting and suddenly they’re drastically bringing down their team scores when they step away.