I recently just discovered something: when you are removed from a party, either for legit reasons or because the leader is an ass, all the heat you've gained is immediately lost. This is very annoying, especially after just clearing a FSC floor. Can this be fixed?
heat loss
Sat, 09/24/2011 - 04:29
Sat, 09/24/2011 - 14:10
#2
It does suck. I once was
It does suck. I once was removed from a group with no explanation. I assumed it was because I paused for literally 5 seconds to look through my arsenal before stepping onto the gate. I had a ton of heat and lost it all when the impatient leader kicked me.
Perhaps there would be a way to keep heat when removed from group, but lose it if you leave group. That might curtail any possible exploits.
Sat, 09/24/2011 - 14:43
#3
Oh right.. so you can't
Oh right.. so you can't leave, then invite a bunch of new people and give them a load of free heat?
Makes sense I guess. Sucks, basically there were a few guys at full heat on that FSC floor and me and the leader were getting heat off them. Musta been mad that I was always faster than him at reviving :/
Sat, 09/24/2011 - 19:05
#4
Hm...
I agree with Pootermobile's idea. Keep it if kicked, and lose it if you go solo.
If you're kicked, then you should be able to keep what you got, or at least your share of the heat. But going solo..that's the player's choice. Lose their heat if they wanna go on alone, for whatever reason. Incentive so people don't just solo 'cuz they can.'.
Sun, 09/25/2011 - 00:30
#5
Heat isn't shared any more
Heat isn't shared any more than crowns are, AFAIK, and you don't lose all the crowns you've collected for going solo. I don't think you recieve the full heat the group is collected if you join right before the elevator (and if you do, that's already fully abusable under the current system), and people can get different amounts of heat at the end of the level (for reviving each other). So I don't see any technical or procedural reason heat has to be removed.
Nor do I see any particular need to discourage people from leaving the group--if they're not getting along or there's a disagreement about whether to wait for a level change or something, why should someone have to lose out on heat in order for the group to separate?
So I don't see any reason to lose heat either when going solo or when getting kicked. If anyone should lose heat when someone gets kicked, it should be the kicker, to discourage abuse of power.
Sun, 09/25/2011 - 01:27
#6
I'm trying to think of ways
I'm trying to think of ways that keeping your heat after leaving a party could be exploited, but I'm kinda coming up dry. I guess you could die right beside the elevator and have someone else come down, revive you, and then go solo and return to haven on the elevator, let you die again, and rejoin and repeat... or something. Seems really inefficient and pointless though, not to mention that it'd be limited to the amount of heat you had collected in the level.
Heat belongs to the group but when you are gone you can't share with the group anymore and you can't take a part with you.
And what do you do so that you get removed huh? o.O