CoolCly
12-30-2009, 08:32 PM
In pubs a very real problem is that shortly into the game (or even immediately) a player will leave and the other team will not allow a remake. This leaves a team with four players against five, and no help to the team with four. In a late game when a player quits, you will atleast get his items, but early game you are left with nothing.
Proposed solution: Split the gold that player was earning per second amongst the remaining players. If there are four players remaining, they will each get 0.25 gold per second extra, or 1/4th of the 1 gold per second the leaver would have gotten. If there are three players remaining, they would each get around 0.66 extra per gold per second, or 1/3 of the 2 gold per second the two leavers would have earned. etc.
Also, whenever a tower or Kongor is killed, the gold that leaver would have gotten should be split among remaining players as well.
This already occurs in DotA, though not directly. The leaver continues to earn gold over time as well as from towers / roshan, and periodically it is split among the remaining players, giving them support in the uneven 4v5 or 3v5 fight they may be waging.
As it is, if a player on your team leaves, it's usually an "oh well" sort of situation where it's impossible to win. Occasionally if you vastly outskill and outpicked your opponents you can still win, but I think everyone can agree that as it is, an equal skilled team of 5 will defeat an equal skilled team of 4. I think this merits looking into.
Thank you for reading.
Proposed solution: Split the gold that player was earning per second amongst the remaining players. If there are four players remaining, they will each get 0.25 gold per second extra, or 1/4th of the 1 gold per second the leaver would have gotten. If there are three players remaining, they would each get around 0.66 extra per gold per second, or 1/3 of the 2 gold per second the two leavers would have earned. etc.
Also, whenever a tower or Kongor is killed, the gold that leaver would have gotten should be split among remaining players as well.
This already occurs in DotA, though not directly. The leaver continues to earn gold over time as well as from towers / roshan, and periodically it is split among the remaining players, giving them support in the uneven 4v5 or 3v5 fight they may be waging.
As it is, if a player on your team leaves, it's usually an "oh well" sort of situation where it's impossible to win. Occasionally if you vastly outskill and outpicked your opponents you can still win, but I think everyone can agree that as it is, an equal skilled team of 5 will defeat an equal skilled team of 4. I think this merits looking into.
Thank you for reading.