CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.08.16 03:57:00 -
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 ! In fact, the author of this thread, and the last poster in this thread (RKKR) are BOTH making correct comments.
(Backstory observation:) There is a similarity between this phenomenon of players who backpedal and flee the match (whether reasons of battle-shock or just a mercenary interest in only fighting a match that's "easy" for you to win)GǪ and the phenomenon we used to have two years ago, where players would backpedal and flee THE WHOLE GAME permanently because EVERY match was, by default, just too brutal on struggling players and the body count was enormous.
Regardless of my opinions about the 2013 Version of the game, at least choosing to leave the GAME and go elsewhere had some honor to it.
Just like those of us who stayed in what was then an ultra-brutal game, and fought against (mostly inevitable) butchering from the red team, showed pluckiness and honor too. ("If it's our time to die, then it's our timeGǪ. but before we give these *&^#@(#s our lives, let's give 'em hell!").  Well, what I'm saying is that, either decision you made, was a decision that earned respect.
 But in this "new, softer, matchmade" Dust, many players choose to stay in the game, even though they know they don't REALLY want a challenge, don't REALLY want to have to work hard to salvage a lost fight, and want to tell the butler to get their coat so they can leaver EVERY fight that seems stacked against them..., and that just seems too "dainty" to me.
 And I'm a girl---I'm supposed to LIKE "dainty" in my life!
I accept what RKKR is explaining. We're mercenaries for PROFIT, and you don't always want to be in a fight that looks assured to make you lose ISK/gear. Leaving a match due to financial fear is,GǪ fair.
But EVERY match? . Leave EVERY match that you think you'll lose? Turn timid on EVERY match that you see has "Geronimo-Enterprises" on the red team?
 That just becomes a racket.
GǪAnd it means (in a game where teamwork counts a LOT), other players can't count on you when they see YOUR name on our team.
So I think it's also fair for you to be demerited or taxed a fee, if you bow out of more than 2 matches per day. This will protect players who honsetly had to leave the controller for a reason---but will begin to make chronic "leavers" pay a price for regularly ducking out.
You pay a cancellation fee for waiting until party starts, to ditch out on everyone, right? And you friends start to remember you as the unreliable participant.
 Maybe Loyalty Ranking should drop incrementally, so you'll need to nurse your Ranking.
Maybe the "Show Info" screen on your character should now show a negative number for the number of times you exceeded your "leave the battle" allowance.
Maybe a flat Loyalty Points should reduce by a flat fee in all of the Factions you have standing in, for EVERY match you bow out of, whether it's a pub or FW match you left.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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