Resigning early - can't this be an easy fix?

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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I’ve been meeting many people lately on the ladder that resigns immediately or after 1 or 2 minutes.

Shouldn’t this be something easily caught by the code, and can’t these players be punished, put on timeout or something? Same for afk players.

Also why give the ELO after such games? I don’t deserve to win some, and the player that resigned doesn’t “deserve” to lose some.

In team games, it happens quite often too, and then the other 1, 2 or 3 players have a tough - if not impossible - game in front of them.

I believe drops happen. but I think a lot of them are intentional for smurfing or whatever other reason.

I feel like this could be an easy fix, but perhaps I’m missing something. Even in the report system, there isn’t a category called “resigned early for no reason”. I feel this is the most often the reason I report.

This would be a solution to smurfing. No elo given or loss if resigning or inactivity before 5 or 10 minutes or something like that? + punishing somehow if repeatedly doing so.

Thoughts? Devs?

Much love for this beautiful game <3

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I think anyone who quits/resigns/disconnects within the first 5 minutes should be suspended (if first time) or banned (if it happens frequently). However this requires several other parts to be fixed first:
-make the game stable enough. currently it’s still quite common for the game to crash while loading
-make it so you don’t have to play games you don’t want to play (either by providing a better ranked queue, or make lobbies usable)