Guild Wars 2

Honestly I’ve lost pips due to people leaving during the middle of a game. I though we were not suppose to lose pips if people leave the match. There needs to be a better detection system or something because this constantly happens to me.

Seems like this system will be abused to heavily grind out ranks. Losing a match and don’t want to lose a pip? Just log out. Q’ing with a party and losing? Take turns logging out so people don’t lose pips.

Sparks The Rescue.5043:

Seems like this system will be abused to heavily grind out ranks. Losing a match and don’t want to lose a pip? Just log out. Q’ing with a party and losing? Take turns logging out so people don’t lose pips.

The person logging out is always supposed to lose pips. So are all players grouped with that person. This prevents any form of match manipulation like it.

On the other hand, all the other players on that person’s team are supposed to be protected from the loss if the dc lasts for too long (2 minutes, i belive). This is not the case. Sometimes you don’t lose a pip, while other times you do lose it even if the player was missing for 5 minutes or more.
Clearly, at least one of those must be a result of a bug.

I have heard suggestions that the game counts time not from the moment player left the game to the moment they’ve rejoined it, but from the moment connection is lost to the moment it is regained. So, if someone dc’s then relogs back to the char selection screen, and stops at this point, the game will still count him as playing.

i believe the system only register that you are outman fighting after X amount of time has passed.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Players must be disconnected for 2 minutes (total) for it to register as an abandon.

does “at character select” count towards this time? not disconnected, not in game, definitely ruining a match. could be the source of this disconnect between my rare experiences with still losing pips and the match being a 4v5 for most of the game.

Evan Lesh.3295:

insanemaniac.2456:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Players must be disconnected for 2 minutes (total) for it to register as an abandon.

does “at character select” count towards this time? not disconnected, not in game, definitely ruining a match.

Anything outside of the match instance counts as disconnect time.

Then i have definitely had matches where one of the players (not grouped with me) disconnected for more than 2 minutes and the rest of us still lost a pip.
Unfortunately can’t point you to the match in question, as it happened a week or more ago. Will try to make a note and post here if it happens again (though lately people that give up early are more likely to just afk instead of quitting).

It’s bugged – a person can be DC > 3 mins and return to the match.
It will then count as a pip loss.

If that player then disconnects again – you still get a pip loss.
It would help if it counted time “not moving in map” once they have loaded into the map. The reason I say this as some people are registered as loaded in the map but do not appear for 3-5 mins later. They have slow PCs – too slow !

The match is already decided by the time they actually fully load into the map and start doing stuff.

I think that is the issue @TPMN

I have seen windows 10 cause some loading errors for some people, chaith for instance.

They get stuck on a loading screen, the game counts them as in game when they are not.

I have personally raged at people who have sworn blind they were still loading into the game for 4 mins + – I believe it can happen.

We need to know the difference of if they have actually properly loaded in or not.
Seems like an edge case but definitely worth further investigation – it might even lower my blood pressure and the chance of my blood boiling out of my body.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Players must be disconnected for 2 minutes (total) for it to register as an abandon.

Is there a way we could decrease that time? When a player leaves for 1 minute or more of a match that can easily decide a victory or a loss. When it is 5v5, every body really does make a difference. Maybe if it were 10v10 it would matter less, but here I’ve definitely lost games because someone was gone for ~1 minute ~1:30

what about when someone disconnects almost at the start of the game and connects again at the near end of the game? (of course we lost)
it happened to me, we were losing badly and my only thought was “please to not connect…..” i have lost a pip and i can say that the player that caused that only remain in the game for 1min tops

Since then when i see someone dc, i tell my team to go and die from the other team, and i tell the other team to be fast and cap all points…. this for me is the only solution to prevent myself from losing a pip since the above incident.

aimasira.3786:

what about when someone disconnects almost at the start of the game and connects again at the near end of the game? (of course we lost)
it happened to me, we were losing badly and my only thought was “please to not connect…..” i have lost a pip and i can say that the player that caused that only remain in the game for 1min tops

Since then when i see someone dc, i tell my team to go and die from the other team, and i tell the other team to be fast and cap all points…. this for me is the only solution to prevent myself from losing a pip since the above incident.

It doesn’t matter if it’s at the start or at the end.

well lost another pip due to 4v5 and had some team mates go down when necro snezed on them. hate losing strak and ohh ya team mate dc during the midle to end of match and never connectd so lost due to 4v5 and lost pip