Temporary Ban Policy

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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The temporary ban policy is really annoying and absurd in its actual application.

Someone left a game, he is in my team, i dont know him nor the other guy (it’s a 3v3). But if i left the game before a certain time mark which i dont know for sure, some say it is at the 5min without any proof, I’m then banned for leaving too early. This is a nonsense.

I could have send all my vill to die instantly, or i could have stopped playing and i wouldnt be banned BUT the amount of time my opponents wasted is far more than if i left asap. The game must have a way to know I left after someone and that i didnt tagged with him intentionnaly. In addition if you consider that the game seems unstable for a lot of people the dude that left in the first place have a lot of chance to just be also a victim.

I cant be the only one really disturbed by this way of doing.

2

Yes I agree. But it seems that this issue would never be fixed

3

Yeah, but how would you design it?

I fail to see a ban policy that would actually work of Age of Empires 2.

  • Moving them into a ‘low trust’ pool like in Dota 2 or Counter-Strike full of people who also leave is not an option due to the small number of players.
  • Giving you a 5 minutes timer after someone left would be a waste of 5 minutes, better if an ally leaves say “an ally left the game, the game is safe to leave” like in Dota 2.

I think the best thing to do is simply making being the first to leave more punishing (if you don’t intend to end it, don’t start a ranked game) while making it safe to leave afterwards for everyone in the team who isn’t the first to leave. Or maybe a 2 minute counter so that you have time to decide whether you want to keep playing or not.

4

Didnt the dev just confirm this time?

Yes, the system is bad for playing TGs with randoms. Just someone need to leave early and you have two options:

  • Stay until the 5 minute mark.
  • Leave and get punished as well

I would suggest a small tweak:

  1. If you play with randoms: only the first one will get punished, others are free to leave after the first quitter.
  2. If you play as team, then the 5 minute rule will count for everyone in a team. This is to make sure premades can’t exploit the rules by quitting one by one as first of their time, and left the others get a freebee.
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