Leaver Penalty suggestion

NortheastPizza··2 votes·438 views

Alright people, we gotta be honest with ourselves here. LeaverBuster doesn't do nearly enough to deter players from leaving games. We need to up the penalty for leaving any non-custom, non-Co-op, or normal game. For leaving one game, a player should be disallowed from queuing for another game for 24 hours. This will only effect those who leave games and do not reconnect within 10 minutes or so. If we have a system like this implemented I guarantee that the occurrence of a 4v5 game will go from commonplace to a rarity almost instantly. Naturally, this system should not be in effect when server maintenance is ongoing. Also, for those who disconnect because of internet issues on the player's side, there is nothing that can conceivably be done, because if a system were in place to identity disconnects it could and would be easily exploited.

Constructive criticism only, please. We can compromise on other ideas like this if it seems too extreme, but I personally feel that this is at least a good basis for a system that actually punishes people for leaving games.

2 Comments

Houndog243 votes

A full day seems a bit too extreme. People have lives and if something important comes up, then they shouldn't be banned for an entire day. Maybe if they left 5+ games in a matter of a week, then yeah, maybe a day.

NortheastPizza1 votes

A full day seems a bit too extreme. People have lives and if something important comes up, then they shouldn't be banned for an entire day. Maybe if they left 5+ games in a matter of a week, then yeah, maybe a day.

I understand where you're coming from, and that does sound good to allow a certain amount of penalties in a week. However, though a day may be too harsh for one offense, there should be some kind of immediate penalty for leaving a game, unlike the current system that has no immediate punishment for leaving once except that you must wait until the game you were in is over. Everyone, i'm sure, understands how frustrating it is to play an almost guaranteed loss because someone decided to leave out of frustration.

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