I think the real answer is to punish those who leave matches rather than figure out a way to fill up or speed up matches that people have chosen to quit leaving their team shorthanded.

IMO, of course. :)

Why should I be punished for leaving a match that my team is being stomped n 80% of the team is in the MCC making a TLC reality show.

What do you guys think about adding a feature that allows a losing side to vote for surrender or retreat once initiated by a squad leader? When the losing side decides to leave the battlefield early, the match will end like usual. This might partially solve this issue.

I think the real answer is to punish those who leave matches rather than figure out a way to fill up or speed up matches that people have chosen to quit leaving their team shorthanded.

IMO, of course. :)

Because you're a panzy who violated your contract.

Dumb attitude is dumb. We can't see what contract we're accepting, and until we can we shouldn't get punished for leaving a crap one - either that or we simultaneously get vastly increased rewards for actually fighting a losing battle.

I'm with Kallas. We've a limited number of players logging in and playing each day. Adding to that number should be among our top priorities; punishing people will accomplish the opposite. Leaving Battle is a responsive behavior. Addressing the behavior with a stick won't fix the problems which are motivating it. It'll only drive players away.

if you don't like getting killed by me 20 times in a row and getting redlined and losing over and over again, then you should lose your stuff.

I'm with Kallas. We've a limited number of players logging in and playing each day. Adding to that number should be among our top priorities; punishing people at this stage would likely accomplish the opposite. Leaving Battle is a responsive behavior; we'd do well to understand and address the problems motivating that behavior.

Good idea, but not initiated by a squad leader.

Usually, stomps like happen because there IS no squad on the losing team.

I think people that leave battles should be matched up against other players that leave battles. They should also be thrown into battles that are underway.

I think this would eventually put like minded players together.

My idea in a previous post:

Match Slots. You have three. If you exit a game, your character is still in that match until it ends. Therefore, no new players can enter that match.

The people who stayed get your cut plus a bonus based on how many people dropped. So, staying in the match that others are dropping would be lucrative.

People who drop can only do it three times and then have to wait

Reasons people leave match in order from the biggest reason to the smallest reason:

1. They go up against proto stompers and are redlined within 3 minutes leaving nothing to do but get killed and lose for no reason.

2. They go extremely negative (honestly who wants to die 15+ times every game unless your in a pc match).

3. They notice in chat channels that their friends are looking for squads to be in but are in battle already, why would you not squad up with your friends to make this game at least enjoyable.

4. They did not want that specific game mode and want to find another one.

5. (With player trading now a thing) they leave battle to conduct transactions.

6. Emergency PC battles.

7. Internet loss/interuption.

8. They get an internal error.

9. They can't spawn in because of a glitch (I have a video posted about this one).

Punishing people for leaving matches for the following reasons (which translates into leaving altogether because unless your god, you can't predict what the reason will be) will cause most of the player base to leave because your basically saying:

Punishing people for leaving matches will result in the following:

1- Player base shrinking because they get stompt 24/7.

2- More redline snipers trying to at least get kills even though they know they won't win.

Both of these situations will happen if punishment is implemented and would cause this game to immediately die.

I dare anyone who thinks that punishing players is the answer to prove me wrong.

Why should I be punished for leaving a match that my team is being stomped n 80% of the team is in the MCC making a TLC reality show.