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Stop rewarding 'Pausing' players in BG 🙄🙄
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Quake enters the room
Maybe She does concussion on the nonsense pause button on BG and remove that thing
The noob here is you.
You know that acting like this, people will suspect you use pause a lot?
BETTER
AT
THE
GAME.
This is why sportsmanship is so difficult to police, and why in the absence of clear cut rules defining it it isn't even a good idea to ask Kabam to try to enforce it. You run into two problems. The first is you're asking them to pick a subjective criteria most people won't actually agree to and codify that into the rules. The second is you're presuming the devs are the kind of people who would actually change the rules of the game to satisfy the whims of a small minority of players who just don't like something. Both are not good at all.
I have my own fair share
Maybe the strategy is to play it such the opponent thinks they have a good chance to obtain more points than game pause.
If you consider that pausing for the duration of the entire fight is both poor sportsmanship AND a time suck maybe consider the following.
1) Penalty for running out the clock
- 1000 points if you start a match and run out the clock drafting a team and then run out the clock picking attackers and defenders.
- These are the boneheads that put the device down and let the game automatically draft the champs after 25 seconds all 4 rounds, and then auto pick the attacker and defender after 15 seconds each fight. Total time wasted when they do this is 160 seconds. That's 3 minutes wasted before you even get to fight.
- Maybe consider detecting input, as well. If you at least PICK a champ and then let the clock run out then no penalty? There could be a legit reason you need to run the clock down to prepare for the fights.
2) Penalty for pausing
- 2000 points if you pause at least 20 seconds. Additional -1000 for every 10 seconds pause. The system should aggregate the total pause time in case people pause/unpause to cheat
- There are reasonable excuses for pausing during a fight, however, considering a match is 120-130 seconds, you should be penalized for pausing longer than X seconds. Let's say you are amazing and take out your defender in 15 seconds each fight, pausing 2 full fights wasted about 3 minutes 30 seconds.
3) Automatic forfeit if no input detected for 2/3 fights
- If you don't actually fight then the match is automatically forfeit
- If you aren't actually going to play then you should be penalized
4) Factor forfeits into seeding for next season
- Forfeits should be weighted lower when factoring where you are seeded.
- For each forfeited match, consider either the base hero rating OR summoner prestige of the account that forfeited. For example,
-- if I win because a higher value account forfeits and "gifts" me a win, that win should be valued less when seeding me in the next season.
-- if you win because you forfeited against a lower value account and "gift" me a win, that win should be valued less when seeding you in the next season.
-- figuring higher/lower should be flexible, maybe a 20% differential in base hero rating or summoner prestige?
The numbers are of course just spitballing, but they would have to be high enough to discourage this behavior.
The run out the clock because its "idiots who put their phones down"? You got no idea how many times I had the loading wheel yesterday and the game went from 6 seconds left to 0 and auto drafted my team. Should I started a match punished cause the game lagged?
The rest has been talked to death. Matchmaking is what it is.
BGs isn't a contest of who can score more than 15k. It's a contest of who can perform better than the opponent. Within that, there are metrics that measure Points.
Which means if both Players KO, it's a contest of who performed better under 15k.
Someone getting knocked out isn't an excuse for people throwing the fight and defaulting 15k. In fact, someone who doesn't fight at all loses the right to call anyone weak for not doing over 15k because THEY DID NOTHING.
On paper, it seems logical that if you make more than 15k, you win. That's not the point. The point is to make more than your opponent. Point blank, someone who fights their best and loses deserves the win over someone who manipulated the scoring by avoiding fighting at all.
Dad: sure, bud. Let’s get that easy mode.
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I have no patience for people wasting my time