That’s all anyone cares about anyways slap a fat SR fine on them!
I don’t think you lose enough for leaving.
Or a scarlet letter on their battle tag / hero skin!
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If you have the leaver that never comes back then fair enough. But sometimes you do run into that one leaver that honestly DC’d and some situations are out of their hands when it happens. It could be a persisting issue or a sudden one that came at a drop of coin.
Increasing penalties will just help the derankers/Smurfs. I had an idea, unfortunately the thread didn’t go anywhere. Here it is for what it’s worth…
Firstly, we’d have to be able to earn CP from other areas, namely quickplay and arcade. I think this would solve the problem of people playing comp who aren’t really interested in it and are just there for the golden guns. Comp would still be the most profitable way to earn them. The only resistance I see here is the “My golden guns are special, earn them like i had to!” crowd.
It’s really a win win with no downsides. Yes golden guns would be able to be earnt from other modes but even Jeff Kaplan admitted golden guns in comp were a mistake. Going forward we could even add more skins for guns since the reward isn’t just tied to competitive. Diamond skins anyone?
Secondly, comp would then have a buy in system, using the competetive points from those other game modes only (No tickets bought with real money!) I believe this would make every game more “valuable”, Hopefully alleviating throwers and trolls. This change might have the most resistance but also the most impact. Competitive would be the premium mode. People might try harder to win, swapping to counter and working better as a team because they wouldn’t want to waste their points or their more valuable time.
I’ve no idea on values at the moment, but I certainly don’t want to make it cost prohibitive, I don’t want to add a grind to the game, just a little speed hump to stop people lining up to waste their teams time ad nauseam. Speaking of teams, you could bank points for when you’re grouping, a bit like rift stones in D3.
Instead of constantly playing comp all the time and getting burnt out, bitter and tilted, people would be ushered to the other modes for a breather.
Also, because you don’t want to be deciding between lining up for comp or buying a weapon skin, I propose a running tally of points earnt to buy weapon skins, and current stock of points for comp entry.
Then people will leave to deliberately lose lots of SR to smurf in lower ranks
the punish comes when you click leave game not getting DC’d
This is incorrect. They are punished exactly the same.
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This. I would remove sr loss completely and make more serious time bans.
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I think some of them they want to lose sr (derank).
But you get time penalties as well? And if you leave enough games you get suspended…
They are not severe enough as you can leave safely after every 10 games and not get longer than 10 minute ban.
Players already get an SR fine for leaving - 50 SR.
But not everyone who leaves does so intentionally.
And it’s not always bad Internet that sees someone unintentionally leave. Power outages, hardware failures, and Internet service interruptions can all cause disconnects.
it’s bad enough those who unintentionally disconnect get punished at all, especially when the solution to leavers is already in game in other modes - backfill.
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If you m suddenly have connection problems it’s not really fair. 50 sr is already a lot imo. They should just increase punishment after multiple offenses.
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