A way to deal with rage quitting

from Demigod Forums

I have read a lot of users ideas on how to solve rage quitting but I have never seen this idea come up. What you want to be able to do is punish rage quitters while not punishing people with legitimate connection problems. Taking away favor is a bad idea because it affects both quitters and legitimate players.

What if you could "tie" a persons username into the game when it starts, then when a player quits the game before it ends their username is still "tied" into the previous game that they just quit. This makes it so the player can not join another game until the previous game that they quit ends. Once the previous game ends their username is "released" and they are now able to join a new game.

If a legitimate player disconnects from a game due to connection problems most likely they will have to wait on a computer/modem/router reboot anyway.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

Way too harsh. I think ragequitting is silly in a lot of situations (dying once and quitting, for example), but it's perfectly fine in other situations. If I'm stuck playing with an idiot I'd rather ragequit than be frustrated for the next 20 minutes.

 

Perhaps there should be a minor punishment for ragequitting IF you do it very often, but that's about it. With 'minor punishment' I mean a bit of a favor point loss or whatever. It's a game... not allowing people to play how they want to (as much as you may disagree with their playstyle) will not do the game any good.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

urg.... so many ragequitting posts...

 

from what i've read this is how this is going to play out.  for those who quit after dying once there will be a "Ragequitter" stat added so other know how much you do it.  there is grey area for when they can quit (as in the first 5 min) so those with connection/teammate issues can just jump ship and restart the game.

after the 5 min thou any ragequitters will be given the stat.  however for those feeling like its going to be a feeding party and there is no way wat so ever to win then there will be the concinment option which allows players to vote to forfeit the game... there for losing the game and not gettign the ragequit stat on their profile. 

done... finished... this makes it both fair and provents ragequitters.

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