Not everyone lives the same way. In fact, I'm sure if they have problems this many times in a row, they really won't care about losing some pixels. Your punishment then has no effect.

Like I said, the crown and ce cost can be easily worked around. And you are punishing people with real reasons for leaving, even if you don't intend to. You have no way of knowing whether that person was called to work, lost connection, or doesn't like the team.

The system is fine as it is. The only improvement would be cooldown time, so you can't quit over and over agian. The cooldown would have to at least be the duration of a match, so that the other players may start again without you so you can't quit on the same people twice.

Untill the next round starts, not the current one ending. So you don't end up with the same group.

Please take this in the nicest way possible. That is the worst idea I have ever heard. I like the idea of punishment for leaving, but that is ridiculous. Losing PVP rank points maybe. You already lost out on 200cr and at least 1 token. 10CE? Talk about stealing.

Haha, sorry, as you can tell, I don't like it. : P

I think losing 200 crowns is enough for an punishment. Sure, abandoning the game will ruin the players especially on their team. But I personally think that it is quite overboard that ye want to steal more 10 ce and lock PVP and elevator passes(why elevator passes?).

For my thoughts of punishing players who left the game will be a penalty of 2 minutes restricted in playing Lockdown due to abandoning the game. It is enough for us.

No no no no no!

Sometimes knight leave the party not on their purpose. Maybe:
> Their laptop is overheat so it shutdown automatically.
> Java exit the Spiral Knight because not enough memory.
> He/her parents ask him/her to close the laptop/computer

For me.. this is too cruel. If they leave on purpose, your team will get more crown if winning. So.. no need to do a punishment.

Determining who leaves voluntarily and who is forced to in real life there is a solution. People grinding will leave but join back in. People with real life problems usually shut down their game. So all OOO has to do is every time someone leaves a LD game that is in progress (so as to not punish people leaving at the end of games) a ping is sent out to the main server. If their game is not shut off or logged out of within ~3 minutes they get;

-Docked 600cr.

-If they don't have 600cr the game takes away 10 mist energy.

-If they don't have 10 mist energy their mist regeneration timer is frozen for the amount of time it takes to gain back 10 mist energy.

-If the timer reaches 50+ mist energy waiting time (from repeat offenses) the user is locked out of SK until their mist timer restarts.

Also so people do not just log out and back in they must stay logged out for 15 minutes from the time they logged out or face the repercussions listed above.

You do realize that PvE's just a game right? Not everyone plays to play the Vana farm.
So blatantly ignoring a facet of SK? What sense does that make?
Mission 9-3 is not the point of SK. BN is. So please remember this before you type a "retort" would you?
Yes, leavers suck. But fortunately, that's a truth that we can deal with.
Besides, sometimes I like having fair games in LD

It's easy to work around your penalties, just send everything valuable to an alt. Although that won't dodge your temp ban. Because that's what it is. A temp ban.

Temp bans for player who screw around in a smaller facet of the game? Might as well suggest temp bans for players leaving parties because they are leaving the rest of the team members to deal with the monsters. Or for not completing a whole run. Or for kicking. In fact, I want temp bans for everything.

You will know how it feel if you are the one who leave the games.

Dude, I had to get up and wash the dishes, 30 seconds later I got kicked right as I finished with the dishes...http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3q0row/

Why punish people just for leaving lockdown? There might be some purposes that people have to do in real life. Locking elevator passes? Everybody has already spent 200 crowns and 1 krogmo coin. So don't make them spend more. I mean, this could be so strict to the players. If you want to punish the people that left just because there on the losing team, then that would just not be cool. They spent 200 crowns for lockdown already for nothing or for just a game for fun. The winning team will get crowns. Maybe if the losing team has to go for a certain reason in real, then you will have to know if they are doing it on purpose or for a reason.

@Mk-Vi

Clever retorts, applause for those.However the punishments you set up are, as you said, a bit overboard. You're looking at this the wrong way in my opinion, we don't need to punish quitters, we need to save non-quitters. All we need to help them is to impose a cooldown timer that's only for the game you quit from. That way non-quitters won't be quit upon twice in a row. Combinde with the fact that there's a 50% chance the quitter won't be on your side when he comes back, you'd only bet quit on once every four games if the person really felt the need to join and quit all day long.

I don't see why OOO dosen't like this, it technicaly makes PVP less of a crown sink. That's good for them.

Instead of punishing people (there is just no way to do so while protecting those who have real reasons that's not abuse-able) they put in a system where people waiting are notified that during the current game a person left and have the option to join in their stead?

Edit: As for AFKs...all i can think of is a team kick. Maybe after 3-5? minutes or so of no movement an option comes over the health bar and if more than half the team votes kick then the player is sent to haven. If it is voted down the timer reappears every 30 or so seconds of AFKness.

It wouldn't happen often but I would like the option to be available. Plus I would totally kick them if we are about to win for the extra 93cr :P

Even if you punish the player for leaving LD, the damage is already done and their team is going to have a much harder time. Why don't we make it a case where the team that has a player leave gets a buff in compensation, depending on how many players their team has, and how many the other team has?

There's a problem here. We want to punish chronic leavers, but obviously don't want to punish real life any more than is inherent in Lockdown. The obvious solution, as suggested earlier, is a fifteen-minute "Deserter" status, like the one in World of Warcraft. If your power goes out, the house is on fire, or you accidentally hit "Play Again" when you have an important event (or Guild SL run) to attend, you aren't hit hard for it.

Another great idea was the "mid-game fill-in". I'd love to come in mid-game and snipe unsuspecting suckers with an ISB.

But docking energy or crowns? Real life is a good thing and we don't want to discourage it any more than we need to.

Scale capture times and respawn timers. For example, if each CP needs 5 man-seconds to capture, five players will capture it in 1 second, one player will capture it in 5 seconds. Simply buff the remaining team by the amount of manpower lost: a six player team with two quitters results in the remaining four players being able to capture at a rate of 1.5 man-seconds rather than the normal 1.0. Also reduce the undermanned team's respawn timer by some fraction, to make up for the increased deaths that are likely to result from being outnumbered.

Seriously, this is too cruel. Why you want to punish them? No point or just a revenge.
The leavers are already lose:
> Fun
> Crown
> Ranks

If you want to punish them, please do not to take their crown or frozen their mist energy. Maybe if the leavers are unable to play PVP in about 3 minutes would be fine

Are universal. The game is set up that every 10 seconds all the people who died get revived except for the people who die with a timer less than 5 second left. That is the mechanics of the game and shouldn't be changed because the entire game revolves around it.

Here's my solution....