Many of the games that I have gotten into take extremely long, often in excess of 5 minutes to usually get scottied shortly there after. I have also been scottied repeatedly while in squad while trying to find a match, then will get put into a battle pulled out and put back in often with half the people in my squad DC'ing. Many times people back out of battles for a few reasons, i suspect.

Being put in matches that have already started. I have seen this over and over since the matchmaking has started. When a really good team is going against another really good team and one of them already has a majority of the objectives, people tend to back out because the other team has a tactical advantage. ***POSSIBLE SOLUTION*** HAVE THE WARBARGES ON BOTH SIDES FILL UP WHILE MERCS WAIT IN THE WARBAGE. #bringbackthewarbarge (would be great if the map layout could be seen before the battle starts as well so that teams could organize attacks) i'd propose that once the teams are filled that there is a one minute countdown until boots on the ground. If your metrics, Ratatti, are correct then once the game is full with a well matched 16v16 then, and only then should there be a penalty for backing out. Then problems I suspect that you will run into with this is people disconnecting from the game, fatal errors, or just not connecting in general. THAT cannot be punished and is a part of the game that is so common that I think that you will find it hard to punish people for. I for one would be quite angry if i was punished for disconnecting...

Thanks, but I think it's unfair to blame our players too much, there're indeed issues with some related systems, what I also want to say is we're aware of them and have been thinking of fixing them, one by one.