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[Glorifying]

it is frustrating to see players launch a game and idle through the whole thing, there should be a idle punishment that needs to kick a player for idling too long, and maybe a temporarily unable to launch time limit afterwards, they are either leeching exp or simply or running a bot program that lets them launch a game without being there to play to farm exp. it us unfair for players who are trying to play with a full team.

[Zanathan]

Firstly not all idlers are AFK farming, they could be legitimately busy with real life. Say they do it more then a few matches then it's obvious they are farming then go right ahead and penalise them.

As for the real farmers, they are IMO new players farming the cadet bonus and with Phase 3 of the match marker with ELO, all farmers will be grouped in the same games. So that solves the problem with the initial farmers but it will then cause problems for new players who actually want to play properly ... which leads back to the first punishment.

[Deamhan]

Let's not forget the black screen of death. Mission doesn't load and all you are faced with is a black screen. So you reset the game but guess what? The person's machine is still in play.

[Glorifying]

Well People with real life issues shouldn't launch a game in the first place lol. even yet, i don't think anyone wants to play with unfair teams, i say bring back 8 man grouping for pugs, most people use comms or ventrilo, this helps team play, and acknowledging everyone pin points. this will save the time dealing with idlers or people screwing around. its just frustrating not having 100% of the team playing and concentration.

ahh yes black screen of death, only way to get out of that is a hard reboot on the cpu, which sucks but it does disconnect you from game eventually

[xxx WreckinBallRaj xxx]

Hard to play with 5FPS or a totally messed up interface where you can't even see terrain or other players.

[Alik Kerensky]

Deamhan, on 01 January 2013 - 11:00 PM, said:

Let's not forget the black screen of death. Mission doesn't load and all you are faced with is a black screen. So you reset the game but guess what? The person's machine is still in play.

or the yellow screen... or 8bit blocky screen (happened only once to me)... or the 4fps bug (frequent occurrance - MWO client usually 600MB to over a1GB in size in memory). For the 4fps one I simply sit on base and fire at anything stupid enough to approach me dead on.

Edited by Alik Kerensky, 01 January 2013 - 11:08 PM.

[elbloom]

if a trial is afk chances are he is farming with the trial accounts while playing with his custom mech.

serious money farming, if you need some more than others....