VonBruinwald, on 10 March 2020 - 03:13 PM, said:
They're not just queuing up for games. They're deliberately hitting join at the same time to artificially increase the probability that the match maker places them in the same game.
Just because it doesn't work every time doesn't mean it's not an exploit; or an an attempt at.
That's actually leads into another form of exploiting where "good" players avoid each other so they don't risk taking a hit to their stats. I use the term good loosely as it's actually known to occur with bad units in FW who only want to play vs. pugs and actively avoid other units.
Which brings us full circle to sync dropping the solo queue to stomp pugs.
Deliberately queueing at the same time really doesn't rise to the level of an exploit imo. They don't somehow tamper with the mm or anything. Compare sync dropping to the RACro, one was definitely an exploit which literally took advantage of a poorly written game mechanic to produce higher dps and lower heat than intended, the other is players jumping into the queue for matches. If sync dropping was an exploit surely pgi could code the mm to prefer to place people from the same unit, or on each other's friends lists on opposite sides, purge discussion of sync dropping from the forums, and either punish streamers or put them on notice for openly going against ToS. They haven't done any of that. Hence, not against ToS, not an exploit. Carry on.
Regarding queue dodging, good players don't typically do that. The people doing it tend to be afraid of running into good players. I wouldn't call that an exploit either, though I do personally find it distasteful.
VonBruinwald, on 10 March 2020 - 03:13 PM, said:
They're not just queuing up for games. They're deliberately hitting join at the same time to artificially increase the probability that the match maker places them in the same game.
Just because it doesn't work every time doesn't mean it's not an exploit; or an an attempt at.
That's actually leads into another form of exploiting where "good" players avoid each other so they don't risk taking a hit to their stats. I use the term good loosely as it's actually known to occur with bad units in FW who only want to play vs. pugs and actively avoid other units.
Which brings us full circle to sync dropping the solo queue to stomp pugs.
Lol. I already did a quick search. Nothing came up but forum threads from as early as 2013 of this same argument with no evidence of pgi making a statement or posts being moderated for discussing breaking ToS. The burden of proof is on you in this case considering sync dropping is so commonplace.