As killer, if someone DC's EARLY in the game what do you do?

Depends on whether it was a lost connection/bug early in the game, or whether that player DC'd after I downed him. If I downed him, he could just as well just suicided on the hook and I earned my kill by catching him, he already bought his team some time. But I won't play hardcore. If it is someone I didn't encounter yet and I have the impression I am dominating them, I hook them and leave, giving them an easy unhook, and avoid deathhooking them, instead leaving them on the floor one or two times. Essentially, I am a mouse playing with my food, which is the way this game should be able to be played anyway in my opinion. I get an easy game and we all get some points.

I play a variety mostly, but I've played Nurse since her release and probably more of her than most others. I do like Hag, Freddy, and Plague from time to time. Been hovering around R1 for almost 3 years.

If you reward DCs by farming with the others, you only enforce the problem and it wil get worse.

It sucks that someone chickened out, rage quit, or legit had to go. But by farming with the other Survivors you are rewarding a bad act. You are supporting the DC meta and making it worse by enforcing the idea of "meh, so what if I leave. The Killer will just farm with the other guys. No harm done" or worse.

By rewarding a DC you will only make it a bigger problem. You don't reward a kid for acting out. You don't reward a pet for pissing/crapping on the floor. You don't reward bad behaviors, you punish them. And sometimes that means punishing the entire team for the actions of one person. Drive people away from DCing from letting them know how much that will hurt everyone else. This works because they suffered from someone DCing, so they will be less likely to DC to keep others from suffering bad games.

Wont work all the time. But should be better than just rewarding DCing and letting people assume DCing isn't hurting anyone because the Killer will just farm with them anyway.

I play normally (no intentional camping or tunneling) and last man standing i will try to down and bring to totems to destroy or boxes to open. Then when he gets his points and i get my brutality points for downing them, i bring them to hatch. Unless of course they were being jerks throughout the game. Then they die.

Playing normally is being a try-hard? Im just playing the game like most others are, if someone is punishing "innocent" people it's the DCers. DCers are screwing over the Killer by preventing pips/points/achievements, DCers are screwing over Survivors by putting them in 3v1s, DCers are screwing over everyone and ruining the gameplay of 4 other people.

This is exact thing I was talking about. You expect the Killer to farm and call them "try hard" for just playing the damned game. You blame the Killer for someone else being a douche and DCing. That line of thinking is telling everyone it is OK to DC because it isn't their fault if they DC, they aren't screwing over anyone else. No, the Killer is to blame by not rewarding others for your DC. So DC if you want for any reason you want. It isn't your fault if you DC, it's the Killers fault for not farming after you DC!

Yeah, ######### that. Im going to end that game to move on to the next. Farming is a waste of time anyway. It's much more fun to, you know, play the game.

3v1 isn't a real game so I won't treat it like one.

I tend to try to let them live (unless I lose count of hooks)

Usually I'll farm with 2 DCs and just go easy on them with 1. If there's a DC, I'll let last get hatch most of the time.

If anyone DCs I just let one go. Unless 3 people DC in which case I try to kill whoever is left.

You need a "Multiple of the above" option.

I play first of all normal like nothing happened, if I scout a really good looping survivor that doesnt give up, I´ll give him the hatch and kill the others, since it is my job as killer to kill survivors. I give the survivor that is the best out of them a chance since I want to reward good looping and mindgame skills, not genrush and immersed gameplay.

There's too many DCs to care. If someone's gone, not my problem, I'm here to play the game not stuff around every time someone's internet bombs.

This fits my situation the closest but it’s situation-dependent. I’ll back off slightly but still be playing fairly normally, and see how the remaining survivors react. If they’re clearly struggling I’ll back off more, and pick the survivor who I like the style of best and try to shape the game to give them the hatch. That being said, if as I’m backing off the survivors left are BMing or assuming I’m going to farm...back to No Mercy we go.

I'm gonna dc too, no point in continuing the game

It really depends on some factors: Am I doing a daily to sacrifice survivors? Are the remaining survivors toxic or just wanting to play the game not being toxic? These are my main factors. If I'm doing a daily and if it's a killer I don't even like, sorry, but I want to get it done with. If the survivors are toxic, I won't go easy on them. If they are not, I might let them done some things and even let them all survive. It depends a lot on what they do.

i just keep playing since the dc wimp cucked me out of emblem points etc

I just work through it. If the survivors are NOT ultra-toxic. I let the last person ALWAYS hatch. If I can sense a defeat I might just let them do generators and mind my own business.

Its sportsmanship.