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Fatal Penalties For Crashing Or Taking Breaks?

leafayeleafaye Member Posts: 18 Arc User
edited July 2015 in PvP Discussion
Hi All! (just finally broke into level 30 on my crippled ancient machine!) :wink:

Taking a moment to ask, must crashing in the middle of winning a battle always count as a death when you log back? (Yes, please forget that I've a "minimal" PC!) Is there any way to have the system "forgive" you for an unwitting PC crash and if so, not penalize or mar your record or total scores in any way but just continue on just prior the crash? :(

BTW, clueless unwarned me found out that if nature calls and you log out in the middle of a battle or baddie chase or a really hostile place that you sometimes log back in to discover you're six feet under pushing up daisies! :( Can there be some kind of warning flag about this if there can't be an actual "pause" setting so you don't end up dead meat just for taking a break?

Keep up the great work, NW crew!

Take Well & Care!

Leafa(ye)
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  • burkaancburkaanc Member Posts: 2,186 Arc User
    its mmorpg so its a given that you wont be able to pause, and instant logout would be abused

    about crash - you do ruin game for other ppl so you should be penalized, but smth like a weekly pardon(not many ppl crash often, a weekly pardon could be a built in feature for ppl that do happen to crash, and rare enough not to be abused)
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  • nigoshinobinigoshinobi Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    i think cryptic should give some "reconnect" time for PvP, and count the match as a lost for the one who leave and didnt return.
    the penalty is okay, but it should be given only to the people who leave the match and didnt return immediately.
    and for the one who already DCed and immediately return, maybe cryptic should give some "low priority" status when queueing for 30 min (bcause they can ruined the game of the other players if their problem still persist).
    magenubbie wrote: »
    I take it you're talking about a PvP match?
    ....Too many people tried to dodge losing matches in the past just because it would lower their averages or because it wouldn't give much glory...

    thats why for the one that leave, the match should be counted as a lost. as simple as that.
  • bioshrikebioshrike Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 4,729 Arc User
    The game is setup in such a way that, should you disconnect, your character persists in-game for a short period of time - this is to prevent the use of logging out as an easy escape from a losing battle or a tough fight. Yes, it has the unfortunate side effect of also punishing those that have legitimate crashes/disconnects, but if not for this implementation, you'd have people forcing disconnects to prevent defeat.
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  • suicidalgodotsuicidalgodot Member Posts: 2,465 Arc User
    In Dungeons, you will rematerialize spot on on the spot you DCed in case of crashes or DCs. At least when it's only an ISP problem, game client crashes might not work, as the relaunch might take too long. Then you get a "You will be removed from map" and get kicked from the map. Doh. When you then quickly click the "Return to Instance" button on the top of the screen, you'll rejoin, nonetheless, and all is well in the State of Dungeomark....
  • greenkrickettgreenkrickett Member Posts: 85 Arc User
    burkaanc wrote: »
    its mmorpg so its a given that you wont be able to pause, and instant logout would be abused

    about crash - you do ruin game for other ppl so you should be penalized, but smth like a weekly pardon(not many ppl crash often, a weekly pardon could be a built in feature for ppl that do happen to crash, and rare enough not to be abused)

    I disagree stuff happens. In almost EVERY SINGLE mmo out there if you crash during a instant or (pvp specially) as long as you log back in immediately you are NOT penalized. Most of the time when a person *crashes* it is not even their fault, but a fault in their ISP or even the game client.

    WHy do we penalize people who have no control over a situation, but do NOT penalize those that openly cheat?

  • myowmyowmyowmyow Member Posts: 1,923 Arc User
    It seems like since the game can "detect" your PC components/performance (especially video performance) there might be some way to program something to assist with this . . .

    But this is really a minor issue compared to the plethora of bugs and glitches that have lived for months on end . . .
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  • asterotgasterotg Member Posts: 1,742 Arc User
    I think, that they implemented this, to get rid of the kick abuse in PvP. The problem is, that with their server issues and connection problems, now more ppl get leaver penalty by a forced DC, than before by bug users.
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  • nigoshinobinigoshinobi Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    is DCed counted as a lost now? because last time i play, i got DCed and my lost count on the "overview" tab was increased.

  • drkbodhidrkbodhi Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 2,378 Arc User
    A dc has ALWAYS counted as a loss. Which really annoyed the hell out of me... as my record would have been a lot better if they were not counted as such.
    I was either disconnected when I entered and before I set foot in the arena... or it was much later and my team was winning handily. I never got dc'd when I was losing... funny thing that.
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