Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I want to ask why is there no check to make sure both team are full before starting a 5v5 ranked arena?

I mean surely it’s fun to play 4v5 for the whole game, but this is ranked, so it would be nice if Anet could add something like 15lines of code to check for team size before allowing the game to start.

I wont comment much on the fail team balance (2thief/3mesmer vs 2warrior/3engee anyone?) because this may be harder to get right, but making sure each team have 5ppl logged in isn’t that hard.

I see no reason why this hasn’t been implemented (except lazyness / kitten pvp mentality).

Thoughts?

Actually it does now. People can just accept and leave. That checkmark asking you if you’re ready? It’s doing that. If not everyone hits enter it’ll reque. If people pass that step and get a map they hate, they usually bail, or if they’re with bad team mates they’ll bail. There isn’t much they can do to prevent jerk-behavior…

ronpierce.2760:

Actually it does now. People can just accept and leave. That checkmark asking you if you’re ready? It’s doing that. If not everyone hits enter it’ll reque. If people pass that step and get a map they hate, they usually bail, or if they’re with bad team mates they’ll bail. There isn’t much they can do to prevent jerk-behavior…

Nope, it doesn’t work.
You can have all the check box checked, only to find out your teammate dced and come back in after 10 mins, which it’s already too late.

Aomine.5012:

ronpierce.2760:

Actually it does now. People can just accept and leave. That checkmark asking you if you’re ready? It’s doing that. If not everyone hits enter it’ll reque. If people pass that step and get a map they hate, they usually bail, or if they’re with bad team mates they’ll bail. There isn’t much they can do to prevent jerk-behavior…

Nope, it doesn’t work.
You can have all the check box checked, only to find out your teammate dced and come back in after 10 mins, which it’s already too late.

They still said “I’m ready” as the match started. Whether they leave right before you get sucked in due to map choice or because they hate who they’re with, they were there as the match was starting up, regardless if you ever physically saw them or not. There’s about a 10-15 second window that they left in, but that’s not long enough to say that it didn’t check if they were there or not. They were, they just left or DCed. That’s not a failed system. Its either bad luck or lousy sportsmanship. You can’t fix jerk.

Sorry Ronpierce, but this is a failed system. Here is why.

Each game have ~2min preparation time. If someone leaves at this moment, it should cancel the game. To compare with LoL, if someone accept the queue, but leave while champion selection, the game is canceled, and doesn’t start 4v5.

This is a similar mechanism i’d like to see implemented. Someone accepted the queue, but left during game preparation: cancel the game and give him a debuff or something.