Guild Wars 2

We’ve all been there. Perhaps that 1 person DC’ed at the beginning never to return. Or maybe you have a cry baby that doesn’t like the fact that your team is down by 10 and they have no skill to help come up out of the hole and they leave. Now you’re stuck with a 4v5 and statistically speaking, the odds are not in your favor. So here’s my idea for ANet to implement:

1) When you see the “disconnect” symbol on someone’s name, you should be given the option to begin a voting system to remove that person from the team. They MUST have the symbol in order for the vote to be able to be cast. This will avoid anyone trying to kick players willy-nilly.

2) Voting MUST be unanimous. So if someone wants to switch classes, that person can say “switching toons. brb” and everyone on the team will know that they are coming right back (assuming this is done before the match starts). Of course you could still get voted to kick, but the odds of 4 people doing it are probably pretty minor.

3) Once the disconnected person is kicked, a search is sent out by the server to all those who are still in queue. A lucky individual can then be given the option to “Sub-In” or “Continue to wait for new game”. That way the person will know that they can potentially join a match in progress or continue to wait in the queue. Doing this might help the queue times if you’re experiencing those 4 or 5 minute waits.

4) Give some sort of buff to the sub. Of course minor but I’m thinking a sizable swiftness or maybe any point they cap is worth 2 for 10 sec. Something to motivate someone to actually be a sub.

5) Bring back dishonor to those that leave the match.

Like I said, no one likes 4v5’s. And it’s an increasing problem. Maybe the devs can see this as an idea to bring a little fun back in spvp.

RawkFist.1935:

Or maybe you have a cry baby that doesn’t like the fact that your team is down by 10 and they have no skill to help come up out of the hole and they leave.

It feels like that is the bigger problem than actual disconnects. For starters I would just begin with a harder punishment for those.

In order to punish players for leaving matches; they first need to balance the pvp matches. Until then leaving a match (both for inappropriate reasons and valid reasons) needs to be allowed or else more players will be pushed away from the spvp environment

RawkFist.1935:

4) Give some sort of buff to the sub. Of course minor but I’m thinking a sizable swiftness or maybe any point they cap is worth 2 for 10 sec. Something to motivate someone to actually be a sub.

I dont think this type of buff is really fair, but maybe the common “win reward” than you have when volunteering in hotjoin could be enough

States.6387:

Currently there are valid reasons. If you get placed on a team with 4 brand new gw2 players against 5 seasoned lvl 80 vets.

I had days, where I played with/again WTS-participants followed by a match with an obvious new player., but I had NEVER a match with 4 brand new players. If you do, than you are most likely just as good as them.

Its obvious how the match is going to go. Should the player be forced to suffer through that match?

I had enough matches played 4v5 and barely loosing (<50). If the QQ-player would have stayed, we would have won easily.

Or you could be placed with on a team with decent classes but the opposing team is full of the current top pvp classes only (through class stacking) who are going to (and do) stomp your team right away leaving no chance to even compete.

All those fotm-joiners are the best, I love farming them.

however can easily put the matchmaking at blame

If you need some tipps on how to improve your gameplay and therefore your MMR, feel free to pm me ingame.