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Squidslinger Gilder:
I've mentioned this before but now it deserves more attention. Ya know, in all the matches I've done since MM got added, there has been one very clear constant that has come forward.

Team A vs Team B
Ship on Team A or B blows up in opening engagement.
Ship quits immediately
Match continues for awhile in a 1v2 or 2v3/etc
Remaining ship either surrenders or gets extremely pissed they got ditched
Replacements never come but of course who would want to? Most of the time the ship's loadout is horrific

Granted it has been kinda fun at times because MM is so great it keeps putting me with lowbies. So they get cocky and think they've got the match in the bag, then get taken to school. But how about the rest of the time? This can't be good for players to get into matches and then have rage quitters ruin it.

Fix to this problem is simple. Take a page right out of MMOs and put a cooldown in. Players must stay a minimum amount of time in a match or the leaving will result in a 5-15 min cooldown where the play button is greyed out/etc. Just outright force them to at least give the match a chance before quitting.

Simple, but it works. If they whine about it, oh well. It is better than these people abusing the system to get new matches every time they go splat.

Arturo Sanchez:
What about the scenario where I wanted to quit but the game was too slow to process the command.

Recently been leaving lobbies just short of match start when I'm not satisfied with crew. I'm not screwing them over, as the match cannot start with a cap on all ship slots.

And I've literally no patience for waiting for a noob crew to listen to at least 5% of what I say I want. When I did b4 it just all built up to a warning from the devs.

Kamoba:
I once had a fight where my ally took a squid, he died once and left in the first minute, after a further five minute Lueosi and Geo boarded the squid and the round finished 5-1 to us.
Had a match timer been in there I'd have not met my new Ryder friends!

Also if someone wants to rage quit, its better to let them quit than give them the ability to abuse their crew over voice chat or troll the ship by burning hydro or kero or crashing into terrain until they're able to leave...

Or they'd just alt+F4 out the game, show up as internet disconnect and their slot becomes unable to be filled for the duration of the timer...


Though I do like the thoughts behind your idea and the reasoning I personally imagine it'll hurt more than help. :(

HamsterIV:
I agree that punishing people who leave mid game would probably hurt the GOI community more than it would help, but I dearly wish to punish these people. Especially the captains. I can sympathies with crew wanting to leave a poorly run ship, but a captain leaving a game and forcing a crew to wing it is just despicable. They should have to wear a scarlet letter "A" for Abandoner for next few match lobbies so that every one will know of their shame. For now I just block them and avoid crewing on their ships in the future.

Indreams:

--- Quote from: HamsterIV on January 19, 2015, 01:51:33 pm ---I agree that punishing people who leave mid game would probably hurt the GOI community more than it would help, but I dearly wish to punish these people. Especially the captains. I can sympathies with crew wanting to leave a poorly run ship, but a captain leaving a game and forcing a crew to wing it is just despicable. They should have to wear a scarlet letter "A" for Abandoner for next few match lobbies so that every one will know of their shame. For now I just block them and avoid crewing on their ships in the future.

--- End quote ---

Although I really don't like Nathaniel Hawthorne's works, I am all for a "Scarlett Letter" for Abandoners. Especially the captains.

But at the current player base, I'm kinda scared that it'll drive people away. :(

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