Guild Wars 2

You have the code to fix the 4v5 plague in ranked. When a team is 4 players the 5 man team should get a volunteer to spectate prompt. If no one picks it they’ll be randomly selected. If the 5th man from the 4 man team rejoins the spectator will be placed back on their team. As it stands ranked is absolutely unplayable. As you move up higher in ranked, it’s almost every other match that one side or the other has a quit in the first 30 seconds if their team isn’t a perfect meta comp that jives perfectly with their build. The last 10 matches in a row I’ve had a quit on one side or the other and it’s devastating to everyone. Boring for the winner, infuriating for the loser.

It’s getting worse by the day at this point. I’ve been in more quit matches than 5v5s in 2015 by a good margin. You want to have competitive PVP but you wont give us the tools to do so. All we have is win trade farm nonsense anymore. At the very least don’t give a 5 man team incentive to stomp a 4 man team, reduce score for the 5 man team and don’t count the match toward rank score. It’s being abused at a very high level.

So I am not the only one bothered by this! Good to know…

I did not see your post earlier, so I opened a thread myself, I’ll just copy and paste my solution here as well (note that I mainly play in unranked, and often the reason for this unbalance is connection problems):

“I think the obvious solution would be replacing the missing player(s). The best thing would be to replace the player right away so that it is possible to just keep playing; however, some people might argue that they wouldn’t want to join a match that is already under way, so to prevent causing discontent I would suggest to add an “Available to join already started matches” checkbox. Personally, I would gladly give up my vote for the map selection to play right away and avoid these mismatches (and it would be a great way to earn rank points quickly, for those who are interested in that).
Another viable option would be to stop the match when the mismatch happens and give rank points (maybe equal to the points scored by the player’s team) to those who played so that the time spent playing is not wasted; then fill the missing spots and start a new match with the same people. Something that could happen in this case is players purposely logging off to prevent losing; to avoid that, I would disable this feature when a team passes a certain number of points, like 250 or 300, when it’s still anyone’s game.

I feel like this last solution could be more applicable to ranked games, where wins and losses count more, whereas the first one would be more suitable to unranked games."

Though I would prefer to always have 5v5 games, I know that might not be easy to achieve, so I think it should be given the 4-man team a buff while trying to replace the missing player so that it is still a playable game. If the replacement is impracticable, like you said I would take away incentives for the 5-man team to win the game (because, it really would not be a win).

What about the matches where people afk? Its technically to the system still 5v5 but logically to us 4v5.

I like your idea of forcing 1 player on the 5-men team to spectate when 4v5 happens.

Furthermore, if we can migrate the auto-balance system from hotjoin into unranked and ranked (as in when it futher botches down to 3v5)~

I hate the bad sport quitters that afk during the match. I think it much more rude than some one rage quitting because their presence displays what a piece of garbage they are for being there and not contributing

Vapour.7348:

I hate the bad sport quitters that afk during the match. I think it much more rude than some one rage quitting because their presence displays what a piece of garbage they are for being there and not contributing

Still, neither situation should present itself in PvP…something needs to be done about it.

Well since the test season is over there has been an increased of afkers and leavers which I’m not surprised, leaderboards are a joke anyways nobody even cares about them. If the game had a good mmr, good leaderboards, leagues, players would actually care more and not leave, this game doesn’t have competition.

Quitters need to be banned for an hour. Repeat quitters need to be banned for days/weeks/months from pvp.

easy ban people . Have an option for reporting afkers and ban people who has been reported by lets say more than 20 different people. This isn’t rocket science mmos has been banning people for over 20 years it works great.