Guild Wars 2

Problem: I frequently join sPvP matches where one team outnumbers the other team. A member of the smaller team will spectate, wait for autobalance, then swap to winning team to get the win. I know that it sucks being outnumbered, though it’s really annoying seeing players get wins this way without putting any effort in. There needs to be a way to prevent the swapper’s win, though if possible also a way to not prevent somebody from swapping from a winning team to help a losing team.

Solution: When one team takes the lead, give them a buff (like the Svanir/ Chieftan buffs but with no stats) saying they’re on the winning team. If they lose the lead, they lose the buff. The buff is only given at the moment the team starts winning, so if somebody swaps to the winning team, they won’t have the “winning” buff right away. The only way for them to get the win buff would be for the team to start losing, then to regain its dominance in points. If somebody volunteers, have them keep their buff (or in the case of volunteering to go to a smaller team that is winning, give them the “winning” buff.) If somebody swaps from winning team to losing team, have them retain their buff. Finally, make sure the buff doesn’t stay attached to spectators so they don’t gain the lead then just spectate til the end when they rejoin and win.

Any thoughts on the idea?

well, i believe we have a lot of suggestions, proposals to fix hotjoin, but now, i came to accept that anet simply gave up on hotjoin.

they simply choose to brand it as “practice mode” and then just chuck it away like that.

You know, i think you had a really great idea here. The practice mode is just for this, practice, and the rewards aren’t really good, but with this “new” mode people would not only stop to switch team one time and another, but trying to achieve an equal 5vs5 in order to get the buff…

sometimes, and i think most of the times, people switch teams just to avoid being steam rolled by the winning team.

it is not really that fun practicing in a weaker team of 4 versus a merciless brutal team of 5 and this is what destroyed hotjoin, since they removed official 8 vs 8 servers.

Do ranked and don’t worry about it

I think players should not be allowed join back to the game they quit.
Also, give players who join the side with less point more reward to encourage them.

They could always just remove the function to switch teams and auto-assign players to teams that the system believes the best/balanced teams would be

Hotjoin is a mode that does not need any alterations. It was fantastic that they labeled it as Practice mode. There should never be anything competitive or serious done to a mode that allows players to choose what side to join or to leave at any point during the game with no consequence.

You shouldn’t get any rewards or daily credit from customs