Guild Wars 2

Just finished another solo arena match and it was
again a 5v4 match at the start,that with the addition
of an afker became a 5v3 and then it became the usual poopoo.
My infinite wisdom tells me that a match should never start
if not all teams are full,and there should be a serious punishment
for afkers and leavers.
Here is what I propose as a solution to the problem.
Players join the queue.
As soon as there’s 5 players for each team available,they get a message
on their screen that tells them that the teams are ready.
The players have the choice to accept or deny the invitation within the next
1 min. If all players accept,then the match starts.
If one or more players deny,then the players that accepted the invitation
are put back in queue without loosing their spot,and players that
denied loose their spot and are put out of the queue.
Players that stay afk at the spawn area for more than 10sec get a
warning that they will be removed from the game.
If they don’t leave the spawn area within the next 10sec they are removed
from the game and are penalized.
They are not allowed to join solo or team arena matches for a given time
interval,say 15 minutes.
The next time they afk they get an extended penalty period.
Penalties accumulate in stacks(like a debuff) and result in longer exclusion periods.
Consecutive penalty progression could be 15min->30min->1hour->10hours……
A penalty stack expires 24 hours after the end of it’s duration.
The same applies to the dead afkers that won’t re spawn after they are killed.
For players that are too smart and choose to afk and avoid fighting within the
combat area of an arena,there should be a system that always compares the in
combat time of a player in relation to the match duration,and cases of players
with a in combat time under a certain percentage of the match time should
trigger an alarm and put the said player under investigation.
Players that leave the game due to technical reasons(game/PC crash)
get a 3 min period where they can get back in the game without a penalty.
If they re log within the 3 min period and the match has ended they don’t
get a penalty.
Players that abuse this system and crash the game repeatedly get a 1 day off
the arena queues.
That’s all.
Now I’m off to cool my brain.

Yes I agree, we need to make sure there are 5 players on both teams at the start of a match and if someone drops out before the match starts the game should requeue everyone.

But there’s a way to make sure that all 5 players are there, the “I’m ready” button. A match should ONLY starts when ALL players click it. If not, give it some time and kick it if the player has not changed his stats, and grab someone else from the queue.

The “I’m ready” button is rather useless in its current form. It literally does nothing in regards to actually serving any real purpose to the game. Just a little check mark for players to see…

The mechanic to prevent afk’ers at the beginning and games starting without a full team seem to be in the game already. Why has this button not been used as some kind of counter to the game server that the teams are actually full and ready to play? If you don’t ready up, then get removed from the server and have the server pull one more from the queue.

Atm there is an “I’m ready button”,but even if you don’t press it
after 1 min you still get ported in the map.
Accepting it is not a prerequisite for the match to start.