So what would you like to see?
A “ready” button that appears before the match is created, and if someone doesn’t hit it within some time-window the match is aborted and both teams are returned to the queue? Perhaps the non-responding players kick out of the team, or kicked out of the entire queue?
One way would be to check your heartbeat every so often with a “are you still here” button, but that would be kind of annoying. It also doesn’t address the players who leave because they don’t like the team they are paired with.
We could just ramp up the dishonor system.
I know the team has their own thoughts on this, but I’d really like to see if someone here can come up with something awesome.
Hey Justin,
First – we all know solo q has its flaws. I had recently games where just the 5th never even connected or w/e. Thats really upsetting, cause may the team comp had work out pretty good. I don’t like to suggest to “copycat” from other games, but League of Legends has a really good working solo q. If you queue up, ALL members have to ready up before the match is set up. This would bring down the numbers of AFKers and “not even logged on” peeps.
Second – I had some matches where my teammates complained about a leaver like “4v5” “we can’t win this coz of leaver” etc.. the usual stuff. But what they didn’t see why this guy left, this team sucked hard. They were capping home node with 3 people sitting on it.. and that was just one of the bad tactical failures they made, even if we tried to give them hints and stuff. I would just call him a “good leaver”, there was no chance of winning this.
To prevent this add a /resign command for solo q ONLY! ( ..to prevent exploiting). Unlike LoL we dont have a promoting system, so add a command to “report” AFKers, trolls and I call them “bad leavers”. A leaver who left a full running NOT one sided match so far. If 3 or more of your team are reporting him he will get an EXTRA dishonor stack (missuse of this feature will get you 24hrs banned).
Third – maybe not that important, but mix up team comps. Nobody likes to see a team with 3 necros and 2 thiefs, even they are strong classes you will lack of some utillity other classes could bring. Go mix it up! There are people who suggest to mix up high with low ranks. Thats also a pretty nice thought, but after all this skyhammer farm exploit (y I would call it an exploit), I’ve seen so many bad players r52+ like a shortbow ranger spamming autoattck while not moving any inch not even dodging dragon tooth (lol).
I don’t mind if I have some lowies on my team if they are vocal and accept some commands. You can carry a game with atleast 1 other good player against an average solo q team.
cheerio wkd
TL;DR
1. like LoL create an “i’m rdy”-button before match starts
2. add /resign for soloq and add promoting system/report command for leaving, afk’ing, trolling. At least 3 teammates have to report. Missuse → ban
3. Mix up team comps by classes and maybe by personal ranks
