Official word from Pix on Leaver Queue (iOS)

That implies they do not know how their own Leaver's Queue works. It's been proven that leaving during the initial 15 second timer repeatedly gets you in the queue.

"However leaving during the first 15 seconds should not haven an influence on it"


Is this some intern tasked with replying emails or what? That Pixonic representative clearly does not know what he is talking about.

Unless they've decided to do it differently on iOS.

Stranger things have happened.

Sure, remaining inactive will get you potentially penalized but anything beyond that will be difficult to assess. For instance, a player who caps a couple beacons, fires a few shots, and then leaves will likely not suffer any penalties.

So we now have official word that map skippers aren't supposed to be in the LQ, since the system nor intent of developers isn't meant for map skippers since there's a 15s approved window of opportunity for players to skip the map.

I still suspect late replacements are the ones getting caught in the LQ because the system doesn't recognize their 15s of freedom to choose a map, that or Pixo's LQ isn't that refined.

This message is certainly less ambiguous than "chronic leavers" being penalised which I suppose can now be taken to mean just that, ditchers and not 15s skippers.

I'm guessing "should not" is in reference to leaving before your Mecha drops onto the battlefield or the Match starts. Also, Pixonic already stated that "repeated skipping" could land you in LQ.

"However leaving during the first 15 seconds should not haven an influence on it"

Could it be that map skipping is an acceptable method of play, but the LQ is catching people for it even though it shouldn't? If that is the case, so much for the righteous condemnation from the holier-than-thou let-me-tell-you-how-this-game-is-supposed-to-be-played 「bum-bum」 hats that reveled in map skippers being LQ'd.

If the author of the letter in the OP from Pix is really qualified to represent that map skipping is okay, I think Pix is not realizing how short sighted that approach is, and the possible impact this could have on the game. Yes, most of you on the forum that skip maps don't do it to gain an advantage, you just don't like boring maps, walking, etc, and you run the same hangar when you skip that you would run otherwise. But there are others that will tailor their hangars to just maps, and they will have an advantage.

For example, on moon map day, Pilot ABCDE will run 3 Thunder/Ork Lances and 2 aphid pattons. On Yam day, he will run a Gareth, 2 Trident Furys, and 2 Zeus Carneys. On DC day, its 3 ancilots and 2 DB Griffs. You get the picture. You still get to play all the maps, just on different days with different custom tailored gear.

well not sure if that muddies the water more on the ethics of skipping maps when pix says you should not be penalized, but you are.

As much as I hate map skipping... I feel less inclined to hate that than I do the sandbagging/ditching/leaving/AFK folk.

Yeah, I do agree with this.  Better to fine tune than to quit.  But I post what I do in these threads so that people know what the behavior could lead to.  If it gets out of hand, everyone will be forced to map skip to only play their ideal hangar for each given map.

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