The abandons need to be dealt with

[Aushi]

Everyone knows, if you leave a dungeon, raid, etc, you get a penalty. Sure.
Everyone also knows you can avoid said penalty by simply disconnecting from the game. You force your party to kick you, and bam! No penalty for you!

I just had to wait 42 minutes in the Steps of Faith because someone disconnected during the dragon's odd entrance through closed gates. The game got stuck in the battle because someone was disconnected (due to a rage-quit). We couldn't kick him, it was a battle. We couldn't leave, we couldn't abandon. We were stuck waiting for almost an hour. Why? Because of the darn loophole to avoid the penalty. Sure, I could have disconnected, done something else in the mean time (since when I logged back on, I would be in the trial still), but it would still be waiting for the trial to end -.-

Something needs to be done about this loophole. Either give the ability to vote kick/abandon once the party has a disconnected member, OR kick the member if they have been gone for more than 5 minutes and give them a slightly less penalty for it, 5 minutes or so (so people don't just disconnect to keep avoiding penalty). ALL of this during battle, I mean.

Now, my net is horrible, I get a LOT of disconnects that I don't plan, but the small penalty price I don't mind paying to avoid situations like this -.-