I agree with you. Maybe the mods can look into having another reliablity rating which only shows for example the last 30 games

At the moment it looks like the take-over penalities for missed games and turns are too succsessfull.
I removed the restrictions from your account.

thank you!

I have one missed turn and one CD from long ago. Anything you can do to change my R88 (my two percentages are 92 and 97, so how it is an R88 is beyond me)? I was going to pick up one the other day, but my R rating was too low.

RR = ((noNMR + noCD)/2)^3

I'm in the same boat with hirnsaege. can't join new games, but no CDs to takeoever/ I am limited to 6 games , one where I've been eliminated for a few months now. Is there any way we could at least stop the eliminated game from counting (if it is counted)?

The main goal of the site-restriction feature is to discourage NMRs.
It should go without saying that the reason for this goal is that NMRs do ruin games and nothing and none could ever "save" those games.
Unfortunately and for obvious reasons, we can't forbid NMRs but this doesn't mean that NMRing is a right or that it's a right you can get for free.
What we can forbid is people trying to work around the site-restrictions feature by becoming multiaccounters. We often ban accounts for this reason.

So if you have restrictions it's because you NMR'd a bit too much.

Encouraging takeovers is another important goal of this feature. Both to relieve (when possible) the damage to open games and to make good positions a bit harder to find. I think it's important that joining running games to compensate missed turns be not that easy.
Otherwise players could NMR whenever they like, for free, without ever facing a site-restriction, having just to take over 1 non-hopeless position - for the half of its worth! - right after they ruined some games with 5 NMRs!

Possible solutions:
1. join one of those hopeless positions - surely you won't save the game, yes we know, and you'll get a defeat in your stats. But that's the price for the games you ruined with your NMRs.
2. wait for a better position to show up and take it over - it requires some effort and it might take a while: that's the price for...
3. PM someone in a private game and ask for the password - it requires some effort and you could be unlucky and have passwords denied: that's the price...
4. keep the restriction - that's the price...
5. Catch the site-admin in a good mood and get the restriction removed :-)

Clearly you find out that the best solution is to not NMR at all. Sure. Non-NMRing must be the best option in this feature, otherwise the whole point of the feature would be lost.
Please consider also that members who play many games at once are the first whose possible rising NMR-attitude should be stopped, for obvious reasons.

That said, not counting games you are already defeated is a good suggestion.

Not sure if I'm understanding the computation right but...

It seems our Restriction is based on number of NMRs and CDs? But it is not taken as a fraction over number of moves we've played successfully. So what we have is a case of continually increasingly worse rating which can only be reduced by CD takeovers.

Is that right?

Also, I've got to ask why we keep stats separate for NoNMR and NoCD, when they don't seem to affect if you can join a game or not. My NoNMR and NoCD are both in the 96+ range, but based on the computation my RR is 89, meaning I wouldn't be able to join a game with RR>90. If the point of these stats were so that they could be used to monitor how reliable people are joining your game, well...it seems redundant to keep both these two and the RR?

Just realized after trying today looking through my profile slowly instead of skimming through it like always.

thanks for the feedback, and of course i'm aware why there are restrictions in place after NMRing and this is totally right to avoid ruining too much games by some overly enthusiastic joiner.
it was just that in the current low offer of joinable games it was very difficult to ever get back to the party ever.

i think excluding games counting where one is defeated is a very good idea.

i also thought about excluding (or half-excluding?) games that are on pause – i have one sleeping game we definitely plan to continue but will be paused for a total of about 2 months ... but of course that's more difficult to calculate right ...

another suggestion is to somehow "age" NMRs ... for example, i've had quite some NMRs in a crisis situation earlier this year which i feel sorry about but just con't avoid – i think they don't reflect my current or general reliability, but weight heavy (and forever?) in my stats.

I will never remove these NMRs or CDs from the stats.
Maybe it's a good idea to add a last-6 month-performance to the stats.