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PLEASE CHANGE THE BAN TIMES!!
The ban times are ridiculous. I'm currently sitting at a 5hour ban because my internet was interrupted 4 times today!! You should instead cap it at 1hour. Anything over that is just power tripping. I've got 6000hours on the game and am as close as I've ever been to deleting it.
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+1.. People paid for this game to play it... let them play. It is ridiculous to place outrageously timed bans on people for DCing: Rage-quit or unintentional. Quite frankly, it shouldn't be up to the devs to impose punishment on paying customers.
Maybe.... new thought hatching here... MAYBE... the DCs per day go as a number above the survivors head in the lobby and everyone can see it. Then teammates and killer can lobby dodge them if the number is too high for their liking.
mind-blown
Pretty sure I just solved this eon-old dilemma. *drops mic*
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Sounds like a technical issue of a single player. The proposed solution would negatively affect the experience of many. There are already enough people who leave matches if they don't like how it goes. If anything, I'd prefer if the leaving penalties would be even harsher.
It feels terrible to say, but I don't think expecting a steady connection is an unreasonable requirement for an online multiplayer game. Neither it should be from one's ISP.
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If only there was a way to distinguish between ragequit dcs vs. connection problem dcs.
Both could get a penalty with ragequit dcs being harsher.
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Why are you playing if your equipment isn't working properly?
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You've never had an occasional connection problem in your life ever? How's that in your control?
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Oh right, because there is never enough lobby dodging and we need even more....
So pick up that mic. It's terrible idea.
You don't actually own the game, you rent it. If your actions ruin the game for other players who paid exactly same, your access gets denied. Not really difficult concept.
Bad internet is your issue, not BHVR, not other players.
Rage quit is even more your issue.
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72 hours is insane and it makes bot useless, no one will DC if you can die on hook in 15 seconds, cap it at 1 hour it's more than enough
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Its in my control somewhat, cause I used my Votes in a Democracy. I vote for a party that keeps companies in check.
I live in a country were monopolies are not allowed and so if they screw up the connection, I can get a better Service at another company, so they have incentive to keep the connection flawless or lose customers. Therefore connection issues are very rare these days, I can count issues I have had with my connection on my hand over the last 10 years. So occasional it certainly isn't.
But I have my parents and their parents to thank for this and the politicians they voted for, they made good decisions in the past.
That is how you make sure companies provide a stable connection and how you can ensure you can play Dead by Daylight.
Thanks for reading my guide. Make your vote count, make the World better.
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Yeah sounds more like privilege.
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It certainly is, 100%. Resting on laurels here. You have my sympathy.
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So you were having internet issues and decided to keep trying to play a multiplayer game knowing your connection wasn't great.
You brought it on yourself.
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When I say somewhat in control, it does not mean everything is in my control. But in a Democracy Votes change the future.
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I dont want anyones constantly disconnecting ass in my games. 4 people shouldnt be punished due to someone elses connection.
People always think about themselves when this happens to them and not the other people that lost their match or had their match quality worsened because of them.
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Just get rid of it. Now we have bots (who have played better than some people) I don't see the point in it. It will also solve the issue of hook suicides.
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Well, OP said their internet "was interrupted 4 times". Maybe if you see your internet is not working properly and you disconnect 2 or 3 times you can just simply stop playing for a while until you see it is fixed and not risk getting a penalty for a 3º or 4º time.
And if we want to get real picky, he could also have called his internet provider to check if there was any problem with his connection and when it would be fixed.
Either way, it was his choice to keep trying to play with an obvious unstable connection and risk getting disconnected against his will multiple times.
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What's the point of increasing the intensity of punishments if it doesn't actually decrease the offending behaviour? At that point you're just punishing people because it brings you satisfaction. Which shouldn't be a motivation for how you repremand someone.
Then you have to consider how it affects players with unstable internet. Which is something that many people, depending on where they live, can't do much about. So if increasing DC penalties doesn't decrease the amount of people who leave the match prematurely, and it seriously harms some player's ability to play the game, then what's the point?
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It still won't because of those who want to keep their points and XP lol
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There was a period when dc-penalties were off, and the number of quitters skyrocketed. I find it reasonable to assume that there is a strong inverse correlation between the severity of dc-penalty, and the number of disconnects. Do you have any reason to suspect that dc-penalties don't discourage leaving matches?
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Stop thinking with the "me me me" mentality.
Someone ragequitting or leaving due to bad internet impacts the match quality for the other 4 people in the match.
People queue up and expect to find a match with 4 other people, otherwise they would have played custom matches versus AI.
Someones wifi problem or ragequit tendencies shouldn't be encouraged at all, your problems dont justify the 4 others in the match being punished with a lower quality match.
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Get better internet connection or play a single player game.
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There's plenty of research on the relationship between punishment and reoffending, and the short version is that punishment works up to a point. Increasing the punishment beyond a certain point doesn't deter certain behaviours any more than a lesser punishment. Punishing players for a DC works, up to a certain point. But extending the severity of the punishment isn't guaranteed to further reduce players leaving the match. But it is guaranteed to harm players with unstable internet.
I'm sorry, me me me what? I have fantastic internet. I don't live with my mum like you probably do, so I can choose to have great internet. This is not a problem I have.
The point I ACTUALLY made was that I just don't think BHVR should be excessively punishing players who live in places like the US, where often they have zero choices as to what ISP they can choose and get stuck wiith trash internet, if they can't even demonstrate that increasing the punishment reduces the amount of DC's. Don't accuse me of being self-centered, whilst dismissing issues that relate to players other than you, when you can't even demonstrate that it's worth screwing over those players.
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Yeah I agree. Occassional internet disconnects are normal here and there but if I figured out something is wrong with my internet I don't force myself to play the game knowing I'll keep disconnecting on others.
But I also don't understand how some people here act all mighty and pretend they've never lost connection during online games their whole lives.
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So by your logic , bhvr should let the people with chronic wifi problems ruin the matches for everyone else.
Your whole argument comes from a selfish point of view. "I should be allowed to ruin matches for everyone else because my wifi is bad and go completely unpunished"
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Occasional connection problems occurring 4 times in a day, it's probably time to call it quits and go play something else until your internet stabilizes.
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We get a bot. It's better than nothing. Some players only get connection issues a few times a day. Should those people get a 24 hour ban after a couple of days? I don't think so.
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I can tell you are one of the following: not American, rich, or out of touch. Most locations (in the US) are run by a single telecom company. They edge out all of the competition, and provide subpar service compared to even what would be considered 'unplayable/unusable' to most of Europe as well as Korean and Japanese standards. As a result, people end up with 1 choice of internet, or what that essentially means, no choice. More and more areas are neglected, despite receiving federal funds to improve infrastructure meant to be used for all companies. Comcast is one of the leading corrupt companies in this regard, but they are all guilty to varying degrees. In addition many rural areas don't have hardlined internet, and often have to resort to using Satellite, which has a far greater failure rate (or at least enough packet loss to count as a DC in most games). As long as there is no reconnect function, the DCs shouldn't be so excessive, especially if they want people to give a DC bot instead of surrender on hook.
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And if we wanted to play with AI we would have made a custom match vs AI.
Someones spotty wifi shouldn't punish 4 other people from having a good game.
If your wifi crashes so often that you reach the 24h mark, you should consider single player games.
It takes you 5-6 DCs in a day to reach a 24h ban.
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I have no idea how the ban system scales and decays. That was just an example.
It's not the end of the world if we get a bot 2/20 matches or so. The punishment of having a bot isn't that bad. Despite the fact that part of me dies whenever I hear that DC sound, even now when we get a bot to replace the person that left.
I will miss watching people pop out of existence though. Seeing them disappear only for an item to drop to the ground was always funny.
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I don't see the possible benefits of bans over 1 hour. They should indeed cap it.
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