Vote kick penalty

[Snugglebutt]

The punishment for abandoning was to tackle the people fishing instances for soldiery bonus, griefing/trolling or hunting for friends but leaving everyone else in the lurch as they come and go plus those who fished for certain stages of an instance aka boss fishing. The 30 minute penalty for that is fine in my opinion.

There should not be a vote kick 30 minute penalty however on the person vote kicked because vote kicking has become very abused in terms of kicking so some people have greater chance at drops, vote kicking because a group wanted to replace someone with their friend, vote kicking for laughs and giggles by groups or out of spite and as such the vote kicked person should not be punished on top of what they already are in terms of all the time they end up wasting when queued to get in and effort they may have put in to clearing the content up to that stage before was vote kicked.

The reality is there are more people abusing the vote kick system than there are players afking entire instances only to come back when roll for loot and we already have in place a way to kick such players from the group which is unfortunately being abused in other ways by some vote kickers. There should be a severe limit on the amount of times you can vote kick during say 24 hours and combine this with the vote kicked player not being able to rejoin that specific group during that specific run but other than that more effort needs to be put towards resolving the vote kick abuse going on than tackling long term afk non-contributing players.