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[Xeno Phalcon]

So basically instead of quiting out we tab out for youtube, git er done!


Like im going to watch three slugs playing wack-a-spider for ten minutes.

[Jam the Bam]

Right this is a big thing, it will affect peoples earnings in a big way, why on earth is this not made clear IN GAME?

I love this game but why on earth do I need to dig to the bottom of the forums to find out such a basic fact which impacts everyone's game?

I don't need statistics or anything, but the dev's should really have said somewhere that I need to watch the rest of the game to actually get rewards. It should be stated when I leave the match. I never suicide farm but I don't like the fact that I have to watch the whole match to get any reward if I died honestly but early.

Edited by Jammerben87, 30 May 2013 - 02:50 AM.

[ShinVector]

Jammerben87, on 30 May 2013 - 02:49 AM, said:

Right this is a big thing, it will affect peoples earnings in a big way, why on earth is this not made clear IN GAME?

I love this game but why on earth do I need to dig to the bottom of the forums to find out such a basic fact which impacts everyone's game?

I don't need statistics or anything, but the dev's should really have said somewhere that I need to watch the rest of the game to actually get rewards. It should be stated when I leave the match. I never suicide farm but I don't like the fact that I have to watch the whole match to get any reward if I died honestly but early.

Why not suggest Nick to put a notice in as a 'Tool Tip'. LOL...
I surprised that some of my veteran CapCon team mates didn't know Gauss Ammo doesn't explode, until he saw the tool tip notification.

[A Man In A Can]

Just tested this again.

This time doing what most people do, which is quit right around the cause of death screen. I accidentally clicked spectate, but I quit the game immediately after. I did not reach the end of the round scoreboard.

I can confirm that you do get earned rewards as in the command chair post up to the point of dc as I am getting C-bills certainly higher than 25k and xp in units more than 0, 100, or 300.

Sooo, I'm not entirely sure what I'm missing out on. Salvage? Resources? Kill Assists after death? Not like I can get back in game and watch all the way to the end to be sure.

Edited by CYBRN4CR, 30 May 2013 - 03:07 PM.

[impar]

Pretty sure this was publicized months ago (Fall of 2012?).

There was a breed of players who joined a game and immediately disconnected, farming CBs without playing at all.

It was then that I started playing MWO in a window and running a browser behind, once dead or waiting to join a game I go to the browser. Or I just make a game session rotating between my mechs.

This is not new.

[Grandmaster Ramrod]

So, if I die early, I have to sit around and watch the rest of my team get picked apart? I agree you have to combat the DC farmers, but people who fought hard, died before the match is concluded and have limited time to play should not be penalized. Wow. Just unbelievable.

[LapsedPacifist79]

Grandmaster Ramrod, on 30 May 2013 - 03:36 AM, said:

So, if I die early, I have to sit around and watch the rest of my team get picked apart?

So without you, your team is sure to die?

[Grandmaster Ramrod]

LapsedPacifist79, on 30 May 2013 - 04:08 AM, said:

So without you, your team is sure to die?

Oh, definitely

[M X Striker]

I think this is awesome. If you're not committed enough to stick around to the end of the match, then you should not be fully rewarded. It annoys the heck out of me that people think it's ok to bail as soon as they die. Um, the game's not over kids. I'm sorry that this impacts your money/XP farming, but personally, I think that's a good thing to help dissuade people from doing it.

Just my 2 cents.

[Captain Davis McCall]

Niko Snow, on 29 May 2013 - 07:46 PM, said:

You will only receive rewards obtained before you disconnected. To earn match rewards, you must observe the match.

how should we earn rewards, if so many of us got disconnected right after the start back to mechlab...
I'm not chuck norris...

[Jam the Bam]

M X Striker, on 30 May 2013 - 04:21 AM, said:

I think this is awesome. If you're not committed enough to stick around to the end of the match, then you should not be fully rewarded. It annoys the heck out of me that people think it's ok to bail as soon as they die. Um, the game's not over kids. I'm sorry that this impacts your money/XP farming, but personally, I think that's a good thing to help dissuade people from doing it.

Just my 2 cents.

So how do a pile of ghosts watching the match help out in any way?

[Red Line Pilot]

The other 7 are supposed to type advise in general chat

[Xeno Phalcon]

Im all for helping out, but some people are BEYOND help all you can do is meander off , but on the flip side we get 'impatient ghosts' I remember being the last man standing as a cicada few days back against a highlander, cataphract and catapult and was doing my level best to pull them apart with the use of buildings and speed. Some peanut gallery ghost is like "Just die already, your wasting our time"

[jozkhan]

Can we get this made into an annoncement please? So players KNOW about this, as it's clearly in everyones interest to maximize their CB grind and over time this must add up enormously!

If no announcement was made at the time due to devs being 'too busy' or whatever then can we at least rectify this in one of the major forums with some kind of announcement. (Dev note: 'being too busy to document' leads to task replication, overwriting of others work and increased chance of adding bugs into a system and is about as far from code complete best practice as you can get)

[Tekadept]

As per the Command chair post back in october on farming it is clearly stated you get the match reward. The intention was to stop people joining a game and quiting without dying and still get full $$$.

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Quitting/Disconnecting Early - While Still Alive You will only receive rewards up to the point of disconnection.

NOTE: If you are dead, you will receive earned rewards, plus match rewards

WIthout me personally having seen any other annoucement or "Patch note" I thought this was still in effect.

Edited by Tekadept, 30 May 2013 - 05:14 AM.

[Kilroy]

I have to say this change is a bit of a shock and not very welcome.

[Tekadept]

Edited by Tekadept, 30 May 2013 - 05:32 AM.

[PhoenixFire55]

If you ask me ... serves them people who quit before game end right. This is a team game, if you don't care bout how your team does go play smth else. Well done PGI (yeah I know I rarely say that).

[jozkhan]

hmm more dead players watching than actual live mechs playing? yeah that'll catch on...

I guess this means the player counter is coming back?

Edited by jozkhan, 30 May 2013 - 05:40 AM.

[Tekadept]

PhoenixFire55, on 30 May 2013 - 05:33 AM, said:

If you ask me ... serves them people who quit before game end right. This is a team game, if you don't care bout how your team does go play smth else. Well done PGI (yeah I know I rarely say that).

When I please with my unit, I care, when i pug after a hard days worka nd have 30mins to kill I do care... luckily I dont care right now as i have enough money and xp, but i can see why people care.. Pretty rough to think people care how you go in a PUG game when there is little to no unit cohesion in our team as a pug.