If somebody is gone for over a minute in a match they should get some sort of ban. Allow people to load in two characters or something.
People reconnecting just in time to lose us mmr is kittened. If you are gonna be throwing peoples games you don’t deserve to be allowed to play ranked.
No, not everyone has a solid state drives and even a DC for 30s can mean it takes over 1 min to reconnect. A game isn’t always a loss because someone has been gone for a minute, I’ve won matches where it’s taken half the game to convince some immature person that the game isn’t lost because of one wipe in mid.
Since when is the abbreviation of solid state drive a banned word? Seriously ANet you need to stop these kittens breeding.
As an Aussie player I’m going to put my 2 cents in and say please don’t.
I barely make the minute and a half on a DC and more often than not by the time I’ve loaded into the game there is only 15-30 seconds left to ready up.
I mostly play for the new Free-For-All arena in PvP lobby.
….. And Elementalist.
First: If disconnecting will cancel a loss it will be misused.
Second: Connection losses and client/PC crashes sometimes happen. Generalised severe punishment is a bad thing for the playerbase.
So live with a compromise. The only thing that should never happen is if you win a match it´s a victory regardless of disconnects on your team! The system should count these disconnects and cumulate dishonour so that players that do it regulary will get punished but you need some buffer to cover unwanted disconncects without punishment.
I am fully for heavy dishounor if a player does it often. Even to the point where someone with a very bad internet can´t play but never hit the average player for accidents.
I know it happens, and I am sick of seeing it all the time. it feels like theres a d/c every tenth match and the match is just trash. These people either need to fix their pc or go play another game.
There’s ZERO punishment right now if somebody reconnects in time, so they can throw games to their hearts content.
Maybe 1 min is too small but definitely 2-3 should be there.
I know it happens, and I am sick of seeing it all the time. it feels like theres a d/c every tenth match and the match is just trash. These people either need to fix their pc or go play another game.
There’s ZERO punishment right now if somebody reconnects in time, so they can throw games to their hearts content.
Maybe 1 min is too small but definitely 2-3 should be there.
It’s not always the fault of the player though so this picture in particular would have resulted in 7 people with punishments for a server issue.
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I mostly play for the new Free-For-All arena in PvP lobby.
….. And Elementalist.
I got dc’ed from a ranked match the other day. Reconnected as fast as I could. Even though I rejoined, that match still counted as desertion and I got about 12mins of timeout. Should that have happened? I thought that if you rejoined, you would not get a dishonor for that. And no, it does not happen to me often. Only my second dc in 2-3 years.
I got dc’ed from a ranked match the other day. Reconnected as fast as I could. Even though I rejoined, that match still counted as desertion and I got about 12mins of timeout. Should that have happened? I thought that if you rejoined, you would not get a dishonor for that. And no, it does not happen to me often. Only my second dc in 2-3 years.
Eh, just too slow. It’s super-annoying, but if it’s the second time in a few years, it’s not a hugely common problem compared to the (spit) abuse this sort of thing can be used for.
I blame the people who cheat for ruining it for the rest of us.
“I lost 13 points for a loss in a PvP match on an online game I play on my $3,000 PC, and I’m so mad I want other people banned from the game because of it.”
I got dc’ed from a ranked match the other day. Reconnected as fast as I could. Even though I rejoined, that match still counted as desertion and I got about 12mins of timeout. Should that have happened? I thought that if you rejoined, you would not get a dishonor for that. And no, it does not happen to me often. Only my second dc in 2-3 years.
Eh, just too slow. It’s super-annoying, but if it’s the second time in a few years, it’s not a hugely common problem compared to the (spit) abuse this sort of thing can be used for.
I blame the people who cheat for ruining it for the rest of us.
No I know that there are more important issues. I am just worried that the timeouts will get longer, and that I will get matched with people with dishonor because they are regular AFKs (which would then lead to more…. difficult games for me). I just don’t want these instances that just happen to stick to my “record” per say. Is this how the dishonor system works? I did not find the wiki particularly clear on this.
