The idea is either take away isk when peope leave a battle. The first abandon will cost 100k isk and would be increased 1.5x each time you leave a battle. If you disconnect, or shut off the console it will be a 25% increase for benefit of the doubt.
The penalty would be divided by 1.5 after every downtime. As for squads, each member that leaves the battle would increase the penalty for all members that left.

Leaving a squad and then leaving a battle won't dodge the squad penalty and joining another squad mid match and leaving to troll them shouldn't work either.

Another penalty could be a sort of tax deduction from your payouts from any other matches you play for a period of time. If you leave enough matches in a day you'll get a public match cooldown leaving you with faction warfare and pc.


Then to promote staying in a battle we should have Tiered pub contracts. This would be based on your Mu ranking where the npc corps would recognized you as a player good enough to defend their district which means higher payouts and perhaps even rewards that come from that company (quafe skins?).

Low ranked players and players that try to tank mu would earn a less which should make running proto put you in the red very quickly.

The battle difficulty could be determined by the systems security level with 0.5 being top tier, just so players know where they stand.

and for fatal errors, freeze and disconnections ...?

If it can detect a fatal error, or a freeze it shouldn't count. Disconnections will add 25% more to the penalty for leaving a battle. Maybe you'll get up to 3 free disconnects if you aren't already penalized.

The best option would be to have a way to rejoin a battle you've disconnected from.

The idea is either take away isk when peope leave a battle. The first abandon will cost 100k isk and would be increased 1.5x each time you leave a battle. If you disconnect, or shut off the console it will be a 25% increase for benefit of the doubt.
The abandon count would be lowered by 2 during downtime. As for squads, each member that leaves the battle would increase the penalty for all members that left. A full Squad leaving a battle would also give the full squad a 30 minute ban.

Leaving a squad and then leaving a battle won't dodge the squad penalty and joining another squad mid match and leaving to troll them shouldn't work either.

An alternate penalty could be a sort of tax deduction from your payouts from any other matches you play for a period of time.

Then to promote staying in a battle we should have Tiered pub contracts. This would be based on your Mu ranking where the npc corps would recognized you as a player good enough to defend their district which means higher payouts and perhaps even rewards that come from that company (quafe skins?).

Low ranked players and players that try to tank mu would earn a less which should make running proto put you in the red very quickly.

The battle difficulty could be determined by the systems security level with 0.5 being top tier, just so players know where they stand.

Spreadsheet

Not until I can see the terms of a contract, who's on the opposing team, what stage the battle is occurring in, and choose whether to accept the job before it starts or not.

This.

Sometimes I just cannot stand fighting against two proto squads for the fourteenth time in a row. Until I can choose my arena (ie, I want to have fun, not have to get my teeth kicked in 24/7) then I don't want to get punished for something the game fails to handle properly (matching up appropriate squads.)

So, I was brainstorming ideas about the whole leaving match issue.

Why not just keep putting the people that leave back into that same match until they get the idea?

Flag their MU rating as a squad. If they left because they needed to pick up someone then their MU rating will have changed.

If they left battle because they needed to log off for a bit it wouldn't effect them.

BUT... if they left because they thought the fight was going to be too hard just keep putting them back in that same match.

With the current mindset, it's a very bad Idea, to give people the possibility to pick their fight.

We're supposed to be mercenaries. Mercenaries get to decide whether or not to accept jobs based on the details. The end.

Not until I can see the terms of a contract, who's on the opposing team, what stage the battle is occurring in, and choose whether to accept the job before it starts or not.

Proposed it already, they should introduce a contract violation ratio. This ratio would consist of your left early to finished ratio, and should influence your battle payout. So if you leave constantly, you will get lower payouts, and if you always stay to the end, you get higher payouts.

This will incentivize staying in battle without direct isk penalty. You will just be payed by your worthiness and for being a reliable merc. Mercs leaving early all the time, are just not worh the same money as mercs sticking to their contract.

Since matchmaking has severely improved, I think this is not an issue anymore. With the current mindset, it's a very bad Idea, to give people the possibility to pick their fight. Because all those kdr scrubs will leave untill they find an easy battle. This is what needs to be prevented in the first place.

Which is sad given that pubs are supposed to be the easy play and have fun gamemode. That's a different issue with faction warfare being much easier than pubs and pc matches being less frequent and inaccessible to most of the playerbase (bad performance also turning players away from it).

I do want choice of contract in the future, but the decision should never be made based on who the enemy team will be and more based on what level of play is expected and how rewarding it'll be to win.

lol

You can't be serious.

What part of that seems like a joke? Do you really think seeing a list of players and leaving because there's a corp squad on the other team is going to make the game fun?

If it can detect a fatal error, or a freeze it shouldn't count.

^ This is important. As it stands in pubs i have maybe 5-10 seconds to try and load the team list and join the squad at the top of the list. If that squad is filled it's 50/50 whether there's enough time to scroll down and find another squad.

And i haven't had enough time to check out who's on the other team for months.

It's time to fix this CCP.