People abusing party in progress option

[TetsuyaHikari]

Greetings,

The development team is aware of the fact that there are some players who will constantly withdraw when you are being matched with players via the Duty Finder. They plan on implementing countermeasures for this to decrease the frequency in which this happens; however, they will not be able to address this right away as there are other wrapped up with other high priority tasks. On another note regarding this, we do not plan on giving penalties to these players who withdraw when you are getting ready to commence due to the fact that there is a possibility that players who do not have malicious intent could be penalized.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

While I'm sure that's appreciated, I can assure you there are more people abusing it than those that are innocent. In the long run, they will be thanking you even if it means the innocent are caught in the crossfire from time to time. It's no different than a fighting game penalizing a player for disconnecting during a match.

Sure, some people may actually have connectivity issues and disconnect on accident, but ya know what? More people are going to be plugpulling. If it was up to me, I'd do the same thing some of these fighting games do and change their names to red if they kept doing this so when they joined static groups or even randoms in DF, others would know to stay away from him. If that person clears X number of legitimate runs, he can get the original color back for his name.

[Sephirah]

If it was up to me, I'd do the same thing some of these fighting games do and change their names to red if they kept doing this so when they joined static groups or even randoms in DF, others would know to stay away from him. If that person clear X number of legitimate runs, he can get the original color back for his name.

Lineage 2 had a really great karma system like this. If you were a "bad" person who ran around PKing innocent people (people who didnt fight back) your name would turn red, and the more you continued this behavior the darker red your name got. Eventually you couldn't enter cities without guards murdering you on sight. On the other side, if you were a helpful player, people could +1 you, and the more of these you got, the brighter blue your name got. Everyone else's name is normally white.

[TetsuyaHikari]

Lineage 2 had a really great karma system like this. If you were a "bad" person who ran around PKing innocent people (people who didnt fight back) your name would turn red, and the more you continued this behavior the darker red your name got. Eventually you couldn't enter cities without guards murdering you on sight. On the other side, if you were a helpful player, people could +1 you, and the more of these you got, the brighter blue your name got. Everyone else's name is normally white.

Haha. Sounds like Wizardry Online with the criminal system. If you ran around killing whites, you'd have red eyes and people would immediately know you were bad. It was really difficult to go through towns though because the guards would kill you on sight and send you to jail.