Disconnection penalty issues
For disconnecting from the match we get matchmaking ban for a certain amount of time. I am okay with giving a matchmaking ban for leaving the game on purpose.
However, many situations of disconnections are giving penalties people do not deserve (e.g.):
- Game crashes
- No network connections
- Matches being cancelled
- etc.
A person disconnected from the match and I was not sure if it was definitely on purpose. I asked the DBD Developers to take a closer look and was told that it is not necessary to report a player for DC penalty because the system does that automatically.
My advice is to give a DC penalty only by leaving the game by pressing the Leave Game button. Any other DCs can be reported (if disconnecting on purpose), giving the same penalty system like now and (if affected by game crashes, etc.) give a DC penalty of only 5 minutes or, if possible, no penalty. This will make report player requests usable and disconnections will be less unfair.
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Their system cannot differentiate between a dc due an issue with the connection or with the server, or a manual dc as you describe. It sees them all the same and penalized them all the same.
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Then at least I'd be okay if penalties were 5 minutes long only. Somehow I even got 30 minutes without any earlier penalties the same day.
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This doesn’t help the hacking situation, where you have no choice but to dc
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