Matches shouldn't begin if someone leaves

Everyone knows 4 vs 5 placers is a roflstomp. So if someone leaves or gets dc'ed, the match shouldn't begin, just like it doesn't begin if someone doesn't load into the arena.

Yes this means that people could exploit the system if they get matched with someone they don't like, but aren't those people already getting the leaving penalty, so they're not able to requeue for 30 minutes?

I'm not sure what happens after that though, is it just that they're penalized for 30 minutes each time they leave? Or does the penalty increase every time until 24 hours have passed?

If that's not possible, I would at least not penalize the other four people by costing them a star just because one person left..

You get penalized for another 30min every time you leave.

Oh so it's always 30 minutes? Hmm, not much of a detractant is it? Should probably increase by 30 minutes every time you do it. That would stop someone from queuing and leaving every time they happen to not like their teammates or whatever. You do that more than a couple times and you'll be waiting for several hours before you can requeue.

I mean you can get reported for it but good luck getting GMs do anything about someone going ?????? vs someone just leaving party (which is considered griefing and reportable), for which GMs do nothing anyway.

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Originally Posted by Valence

You get penalized for another 30min every time you leave.

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There's this Lalafell player who will leave at the start, wait a few minutes, and come back right before the match ends to guarantee a lose and this allows them to avoid penalty.

He's done this to me three times, simply because; we lost together once, then he tried to mirror my job the next match and got low diffed, then he swapped back to his normal job and for the next three games we got placed together - he "disconnected" and reconnected every single match. He doesn't do it when he's on the enemy team against me.

Matches absolutely should be canceled if someone D/Cs during the 30 second setup and doesn't return by the time it's over. People who D/C should also lose double the rating.

I've had that done to me in even less obvious ways. The player just kept playing normally in the enemy team, but once in mine, would always yolo 1v5 and grief the team to drag me down without even trying to fake losing connection. I feel like that no matter what you do with disconnection penalties, it will immediately be sidestepped anyway.

Disconnecting players should have harsher penalties than the losing group.
Even if it's a legitimate out of their hands connection issue, there are ranked people relying on your... well, reliability. And if you can't provide it, you need to face such consequences.
The game should keep track of if a player disconnects in a match, even if they come back, if the low man team loses the disconnector should get full penalty of tier loss, (if not more), with the others on the team getting slightly less.

I don't think the losing team should lose nothing, but the bulk of it does need to go to anyone who had a connection issue during the match.

If anyone thinks it's overly harsh for people who have just a random internet connection issue, I once again say you are there to be reliable, and accident or not, don't play ranked matches if you can't hold your connection.