Cap for leaving games ("Ditching")

Who here can implement this?

Besides, People leave my matches all the time and we still win. I don't see it as a big issue

A somewhat similar system for League of Legends works just fine. And that's fine for you, but people leave my matches all the time and we get slaughtered, so there's that piece of anecdotal evidence down the drain.

I never thought "my hangar isn't set up for x kind of maps, so I leave them" was a very good excuse. Even if your hangar isn't ideal for a map, I feel like you should stay in and support your team. You probably won't get too damage on canyon with a light knife fighter. But you can play a smart supporting role and help your team win the game. Same with a sniper on a small map. Just do your part, whatever your hangar and map dictates that to be.

Would pulling out at the map stage be considered ditching? I confess I do that for Yamantau. I thought it would be fine as the server would put in a new player. Sometimes players ejects early in the game and the server puts in a new player. Sometimes I find myself joining games about 30s after the start too.

I usually do that but when it gives me my 5th yam/Springfield out of 7 matches I'm gone. I can only take so much

If you leave before the game starts, MM will replace you. ..... Not exactly completely true. I have seen my team go short before the timer counted down many times where we stayed short. MM will try to replace you, but it doesnt always do it. Also, there are occasions where the player MM brings in to replace them gets screwed over because the match already started. I lost count how many times I have been placed into a match that was already going. Here I am seeing the countdown and I select my spped bot to go for beacons, then when the match starts, I suddenly see all the beacons already colored and my bot is wasted. I have very little chance of getting gold for beacons and am starting from behind to get gold for damage.

I dont believe there is any one thing that sways wins and losses more than one team being short. I have not done a study, but I would bet that 90% of those games, the short team loses. Lately that seems like over half the matches I play.

My belief is to let us choose what maps we will play on and which maps we will not play on. Have MM only place players on a map who have that map checked to play. Snipers can turn off Dead City and other maps with a lot of cover. Brawlers can turn off the large maps. Players like me can turn all the maps on. With pilots only being placed on maps they like, they wont have as much reason to ditch.

Thereby robbing me of the time I could have used to look around at my team and get a better feel for the match. The next time I have to ditch my 'Tasha for a knife-fighter when I turn a corner after a late drop-in and see two other mid-rangers pounding away, I'll remember that it was likely a player just like you that cost me a fresh 'Mech, and lessened my tactical advantage.

I still hope Pix reads these threads, and implements a nice, hard ban on ditchers. Three times per 24 hours, then stiff penalties to follow. Those of us interested in playing the game as presented would thank them very, very much.

ban ditchers is unhealthy for the company.

they would pretty much cut of their income (even if only 5% of those ditchers are whales is a serious cut of their monthly income and i seriously doubt it is only 5%)

and it will drastically reduce the player pool, making MM a mess like at the beginning of the new MM, forcing more players out because they will more often than not fight against clans fully prepared for team battles, inevitably forcing whales to leave because the game will be boring... cuz there wont be anyone 'funny' to mess around..

they should give a reason to try and keep playing a losing battle; the league implementation seems to be their new angle... still to suck it up.... bad teammates, bad ally hangars, bad MM (at 70% it just force me to keep leaving) for just 200~ eu a month (my hangar, ability, MM, time wont permit me to even get gold rank)... personally i would just keep leaving losing battles... to slowly farm lancelot and fury.


the rewarding should be better, either like in hearthstone (yeah the random low lvl gold card could be rlly bad but it could be freaking good) or make it weekly like iron knights or goddesskiss

banning would be the first if not last nail on their coffin, or at best like in dota 2 set leavers in a completely different player pool.

This isn't bad.  I'd like to add a map menu where you can tick on maps you want to play on and which ones you don't. 

Yes, I actually do it to skip Springfield on most spawns when playing solo since running around for 10 minutes isn't exactly the epitome of fun for me. Only time I play Springfield is when it's city vs port as the fight is actually interesting then rather than a bunch of beacon capping in heavy bots while the rest of my teammates are idiot natashas.