[MrCrabbs]

Just had a 5p now, so probably started about 10:45am.

Players:
MrCrabbs_4p
boss2boss
Windsurfing3
lindaa
baboon

It's after EC, boss is losing and trades his 3 pinks for 4 whites. But this doesn't give him any chance of doing better, and he crashes out a few rolls of the dice later. lindaa meanwhile is propelled into 1st place.

I was headed for 1st, but to try to compensate for lindaa's sudden windfall I upgraded red, and this got me into trouble. I quit soon after boss crashed out and finished 4th.

I've played a lot with boss and I doubt he was trying to help lindaa. But he is a good enough player to know that the 4 whites he got were not going to get him out of 5th place, and that the trade could only have helped lindaa. Therefore I feel it should be punished, as it did change the outcome the other players in an unfair way.

[trace567]

Boss came in 5th 2 minutes after the trade . Whilst the trade is not on the surface bad (4 white/pink) against all others in the game Boss was without question going to be 5th with or without this trade as you said Crabbs.

Boss had no cash or credit much to keep him going. He owned only 3 pink with 1 upgrade.
Baboon had cyan and d blue full.
Crabbs had green full, and red awaiting upgrade.
Wind had 4 black and yellow.
Lindaa had 3191 cash, orange full and 4 white.

Therefore it is a cheat trade, if the users were not so familiar with the game I would treat this as borderline as it is advancing on Boss side completely missing. But I do feel both are regular, long enough standing players to know that advancing is important.

50% reduction to boss2boss
50% reduction to lindaa

[MrCrabbs]

Thanks for the judgement and detailed reasoning Trace!