DUST Search - You should not be able to join a match that's about to be finished

Daedric Lothar wrote:

That doesn't fix the reason why people get thrown into these matches, the reason being, people bailing out and uneven teams. Though your idea of a 50% cutoff is fine, what if one team is at 51% and the other is at 95%. You are going to have people bleeding out of the losing team and if no one else can join you may just end up with 1 guy on the defending team who doesn't really spawn much and the winning team having to wait the counter. Thats a horible idea

Another option is to encourage new joiners, if you join a match thats already in progress you get a huge boost in WP/SP/ISK to make up for the time you were not in the match. You are the much needed reinforcements. Also to prevent it from being abused, if you quit before a match ends to try to get the bonus in another match, you don't get that bonus for like 5 matches. Cumulative

A more extreme option is once a team passes the 50% and people start bailing from the losing team is that people on the winning side start getting kicked to make up the difference.


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Zira Soong Condotta Rouvenor Gallente Federation 0	Posted - 2013.04.02 17:41:00 - [1] - Quote It happens quite often that i seem to be joining a match within literally seconds of it finishing. You should not be able to join an Ambush match if 20% or less of the tickets are remaining for either of the teams. You should not be able to join a Skirmish match if 40% or less of the MCC hull is remaining for either of the teams.
Zira Soong Condotta Rouvenor Gallente Federation 3	Posted - 2013.04.04 00:49:00 - [2] - Quote Daedric Lothar wrote: That doesn't fix the reason why people get thrown into these matches, the reason being, people bailing out and uneven teams. Though your idea of a 50% cutoff is fine, what if one team is at 51% and the other is at 95%. You are going to have people bleeding out of the losing team and if no one else can join you may just end up with 1 guy on the defending team who doesn't really spawn much and the winning team having to wait the counter. Thats a horible idea Another option is to encourage new joiners, if you join a match thats already in progress you get a huge boost in WP/SP/ISK to make up for the time you were not in the match. You are the much needed reinforcements. Also to prevent it from being abused, if you quit before a match ends to try to get the bonus in another match, you don't get that bonus for like 5 matches. Cumulative A more extreme option is once a team passes the 50% and people start bailing from the losing team is that people on the winning side start getting kicked to make up the difference. Either the game should be balanced ingame (switching sides), or the more simple solution, joining a game means it's being recorded, win or loss. If you leave a game and your team loses 5 minutes later it's still a loss on your account.
Zira Soong Condotta Rouvenor Gallente Federation 3	Posted - 2013.04.04 01:01:00 - [3] - Quote Maken Tosch wrote: I agree. However, it's not happening as often as you make it out to be. I only encounter this problem on rare occasions (about 20% of the time). The rest of the time I usually end up on matches that are about to start or just starting. Lucky, maybe, the last 10 or so matches have been finished or nearly finished (less than 2 minutes after joining). This is EXTREMELY frustrating and should not happen at all. Just because you had the luck of the draw doesn't mean everyone has it and obviously it's possible to only see the 'defeat' screen for 5+ games in a row. That's just bad.