Fix to leavers.

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There are some solution for the leaver problem, but all have some nasty side effects which can give innocents with a bad internet connection a bad reputation or in case of a banlist destroy game fun when someone is banning people because he thinks their cheating(also known as winning). Whatever, every single carries a side effect.

 

My suggestion would be simple and effective. It wouldn't totally rule out leavers, but it'll keep them to minimum without side effects. Just give a surrender button, once clicked you get a message you lost/or something a kin to it and get you out of the game. Now this doesn't seem so effective, but as long as you make them insulting enough, people won't just leave. It's simple psychology, noone likes it when he is insulted a pointed to his failings big letters. Make it intrusive, make it insulting make, it big. Humiliate the leaver, show how great the other won, whatever. Now if you just have to eat/have internet connection problems this will not be a big problem, you will ignore it. But if you're a whiny leaver you're trying to escape your own failings, nothing helps so good as FAIL in letterfont 72.

 

You Lose.

You Failed.

 

Or something akin.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

Or alternatively

YOU LOSE. YOU FAILED BECAUSE SOMEONE ON YOUR TEAM WENT AFK / DISCONNECTED / LEFT BEFORE YOU OR ANY OTHER FAULT WHICH WAS NOT YOURS.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

Now if you just have to eat/have internet connection problems this will not be a big problem, you will ignore it.
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Wrong. If I get insulted everytime I leave for dinner or my ISP craps out, I'll quickly lose interest in this game. Insulting players isn't a great way to keep a userbase.

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

There are some solution for the leaver problem, but all have some nasty side effects which can give innocents with a bad internet connection a bad reputation or in case of a banlist destroy game fun when someone is banning people because he thinks their cheating(also known as winning). Whatever, every single carries a side effect.

 

My suggestion would be simple and effective. It wouldn't totally rule out leavers, but it'll keep them to minimum without side effects. Just give a surrender button, once clicked you get a message you lost/or something a kin to it and get you out of the game. Now this doesn't seem so effective, but as long as you make them insulting enough, people won't just leave. It's simple psychology, noone likes it when he is insulted a pointed to his failings big letters. Make it intrusive, make it insulting make, it big. Humiliate the leaver, show how great the other won, whatever. Now if you just have to eat/have internet connection problems this will not be a big problem, you will ignore it. But if you're a whiny leaver you're trying to escape your own failings, nothing helps so good as FAIL in letterfont 72.

 

You Lose.

You Failed.

 

Or something akin.
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Dumbest idea I have read as of yet.  I hope you are kidding.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

Ofc, you will not get offended if you have to eat, you just shut down the computer... I don't see a problem here. 

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

Just replace leavers with an AI controlled player. It's not ideal, but it's *way* better than an empty slot.

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

That already happens, but an AI player is not a team player at the moment.