Guild Wars 2

People sometimes complain about receiving Dishonour after reconnecting from being disconnected. I’ve seen matches where people have been disconnected for a while, come back and made a good contribution. The time spent offline possible caused these players to receive Dishonour.
A possible solution. How about if at the end of a match where a player has been offline for the 2 mins the other four team member get a chance to vote, “Spare [player name] Dishonour” No negative vote, if you don’t vote it just counts as you don’t see them as having played their part. Maybe have it if one votes they get a reduced timeout, two votes and they don’t get any Dishonour. Would mean half the team have actively decided to forgive them being offline for the time.
Could also be brought in to ranked, if they are offline and you lose then it’s fine for them to be the one player to lose a pip. If you win 4v5 or they reconnect and win. People complain about pip loss after a win after being disconnected for too long. Could have it 2 votes and they don’t lose a pip and win streak is unaffected, half of the other players have decided they made a contribution. 3 votes and they get the pip, the majority have decided they played their part.
Just what I was thinking, I see people complaining sometimes about dishonour and pip loss after reconnecting and winning, some even saying they would be just as well to not bother reconnecting and helping the team. This would give the 4 players effected the chance to decide if the dishonour is necessary and if they choose not to vote to spare the dishonour, well, the disconnected player wouldn’t have much grounds to complain. They were offline too long and their contribution when online too small. Would encourage them to reconnect and try their best rather than sit th match out knowing the result will be the same for them either way.

How many times have you disconnected more than two minutes since the season started. Then how many times did your team win? I have players hundreds of times over the 4 seasons and only fell in this category once. This was a server error and when I finally connected there were 5 mins left in the match and 3 people in it. That was the only time I failed to connect or dropped connection for an extended period. Is it a good use of rime to address this when it rarely happens? Also, a voting system could get exploited by people that queue with friends.

I’ve had games where others disconnected then came back after a while and we won. Could do it when you lose as well but people would be less obliged to. As for queuing with friends, would that really matter? If a player rage quits and their friends decide to stop them getting dishonour then hey, it was their game that got ruined.

Yeah 3 people would never queue, have their friend “disconnect” then vote for no dishonor in order to tank MMR for wins, or just to troll.