STOP WITH THE BATTLEGROUNDS LEAVER BAN!

jcm2606

The simple solution to this is to check if the match is in the "Waiting for players..." phase, and if a player leaves during this phase, don't give them the penalty. This allows players to leave bugged matches with no consequences (I agree, why should we be punished for the game screwing up?), doesn't waste people's time with a 5 minute timer to determine if the match is bugged (when you can generally determine it yourself within a minute or less), and it minimises the potential for griefing or exploitation.

When the match enters the countdown phase, then start giving out penalties when people leave. In a working match the "Waiting for players..." phase lasts only a few seconds, if you even see it at all, so there's only an incredibly small window for people to exploit this workaround.

The best part, this is literally a single if statement, a single line of code.

Of course the best solution is to actually fix the issue, but this is ZOS, we don't deal in fixes, we deal in bandaids.

Kalgert

justinbarrett wrote: »

I'm glad people get locked out for leaving(should be 30 min)....there are far too many spoiled players who cannot be bothered with "losing"...so when things are going poorly they bail.......kids today(and adult kids) never learned how to lose...

BTW leaving a battle ground because you are losing, is still losing.

stay classy and hang in there.....it is dishonorable to bail.

I don't think people are saying "Grrr I am locked out because I left due to losing game", but it's more to do with "Games aren't starting properly, and if I leave I get locked out". Which has happened to me at least three times in recent memory.

So no idea where this passive-aggressive attitude is coming from.

WikiMeister

The absolute worst is when you get lagged out mid fight. Since you couldn't log back in within a certain window, by the time you log back in, you find yourself back in the last place before you warped into the BG - and slapped with a deserter's penalty because of something you couldn't help.

Kalgert

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO wrote: »

so...the OP its just a RQ that doesnt like to get spanked for being a !@#$ RQ...well in that case...have you tried PvE sir? clearly Pvp its not for you...but dont worry we former emperors and GO's shall not laugh about you at our next meeting...well not that much that is.

*clears his throat nervously*

russelmmendoza

Dont remove the ban, remove the bug.

I cant leave because i q up for an hour.

Well i was farming while waiting, but still, give me a damn match.

joseayalac

I find it very funny that some people are trying to state that this bug doesn't exist, while it is very prevalent.

One team never gets it's third member so the game never starts, just as described before. People from the other two teams start to leave so replacements come in, people come and go but the glitched team never gets passed 2 members. Not even in 60 minutes.

I can totally confirm this is true and this has happened to me a LOT of times.

Also this bug is so prevalent that I'm totally sure that ZOS has been thourghly notified about it.

vamp_emily

over the weekend I was in a BG waiting for players and pressed F5 to see who was on the other teams. We only had 2 players in my group ( me and someone else ) the other teams had 3 players. The other two teams when from 3 to 4 players and never added someone to my group, not sure why.

Even though it was 2 v 4 v 4, we ended up winning.

sylvy_gene

Insane!!!.... logged to do my random. Bugged... green team never filled up. Changed toon to kill the penalty. BUGGED again, same thing, green team never filled up!

This bug isnt new and still not fixed yet!

C'mon ZOS!

Chelo

dimensional wrote: »

Every single time I've ever entered a battleground that had less than 4 players on a team(s), the others eventually come if you simply STAY in the battleground. Try it out next time. I've (and my brother and his wife, and we all play on different platforms) been playing BGs nearly every single day since they were released, and not one single time has this happened to me. What has happened, however, is players that are entering the queue later than the others. You will not see this if you simply just leave the battleground and incur the leaver penalty. That's entirely on you.

Only happens in high MMR BGs...

srfrogg23

dimensional wrote: »

What *SPECIFICALLY* are you talking about when you say "bugged instance"? Got screenshots or anything like that?

I think it's the old "Instance is full" bug where it won't even let you teleport to the bg and the only thing you can do is quit.

WuffyCerulei

It should be left in. If you’re gonna leave your teammates because of your bruised ego, you deserve some punishment. You aren’t losing mmr like other games do when you abandon.

jcm2606

WikiMeister wrote: »

The absolute worst is when you get lagged out mid fight. Since you couldn't log back in within a certain window, by the time you log back in, you find yourself back in the last place before you warped into the BG - and slapped with a deserter's penalty because of something you couldn't help.

Or the game outright crashes, even asking you to submit a bug report and all...