Missed ONE >>1<< Duty Finder commence, and now I have 30 minutes penalty.

[maxthunder1]

So it seems players would rather control how others wish to play by crying about other players not hitting commence or timing out, so they cry to the dev's. Now i understand it is annoying but really you play your way left them play their way because look at what has happened and players are not happy with how it works. As I have said before there is no way to stop players from trolling regardless of the penalties because in the end those players will find another way to troll regardless. The only thing that this has done is penalize players who dont abuse the duty finder, yes maybe they had slowed down the trolling but it has created a new issue, from accepting than going afk to get vote kicked to trolls locking out other players so what has actually been accomplished, other than make things worse?

Im sorry but the community in 1.0 was 10 times better than the community in 2.0 maybe they need to get rid of the duty finder and all these issue will stop as well as the community getting better because now that you would have to play with players on your own server your reputation would be a major concern to them. We have party finder and that is enough we dont need cross server play as this promotes bad behavior due to not being on the same server.

[pootersmash]

but it stops a loophole in the lockout system which would be a bigger problem. OP obviously didn't think it through before posting.
Better luck next time.

Which loophole are you referring to? as far as a group of players swapping who withdraws, what is the point? the only reason people abused withdraw was to hit a duty in progress, and a party of any size is never put into those. Any group trying to do that is simply wasting their time, and strikes. No player should ever be penalized for another players actions, even if you chose to be associated with them. Furthermore, Ready check only makes sure that someone is there the moment you flag for the DF, people occasionally need to afk in the 5-15 minutes it takes for some duties to actually pop up, let alone those that simply get caught in a 5 minute zone load.