Leave Buster Proposal
My proposal for a Leave Buster system
-Games you leave are tracked for 24 hours
-If you leave a game you can't start another on until your team is out of the game you left
-Second leave, you're locked out of starting until your team is out plus an additional 10% of the time they were playing without you.
-Additional leaves add 5% more to that time.
-After 10 consecutive games without leaving the oldest game on your leave record is removed and another is removed every 5 games after that
-While at 20% additional time(4 leaves in 24 hours without removing any) your leave record turns into a 7 day record. The 7 day record accumulates 10% time per leave and takes twice as many games to remove leaves from your record
-Starting at 50% the game will prioritize putting you on teams with other people that are also at 50% or more
-Reaching 100% (12 leaves on record without removing any) would result in a 24 hour ban
-Leaving a game with a Full-Premade team does not interact with the additional timed punishments. As in only locks you out til they are done and doesn't add to or subtract from the extra time percentage
What I think this system would accomplish:
1. People lose the incentive of leaving one game to start another, I'm confident this is probably an overwhelming majority of intentional leaving.
2. People that consistently leave games anyway will rack up punishment time further dis-incentivizing the behavior and get stuck playing with similar people.
3. While the system can get punishing very quickly for leaving games consistently it is equally easy to remove the punishment by changing your behavior.
4. If you had to legitimately step away this shouldn't be an issue because having if you only needed to step away for 10-30 seconds then you probably didn't need to leave and if you had to step away for several minutes your team will probably be out by the time you get back.
5. People that hardly ever leave won't be punished severely for the rare games they do leave.
6. Full-Premades being exempt from the extra time means that if you leave your friends in a game with good reason they shouldn't be mad at you, and you'll just have to at most wait for them to get out of their game or rejoin. If you left your friends without good reason they might just not play with you and you'll get to play randoms again. If you DO have to consistently leave games for whatever reason you can do so in a pre-made with people that like you and care about your reason for leaving as opposed to messing up random strangers games.
Regarding Crashing:
If the game can distinguish between a crash and a leaver great. But hopefully we could get the ability to rejoin a game and rejoining the game would exempt you from the timed punishment for that game. Even still, as the lifetime of the game go on the devs should fix the crashing issues that aren't caused by people running on bad computers. Currently my experience is that I only crash maybe once out every 25 or so games but people leave my team in probably 1 out of every 3 games. I would gladly trade occasionally being stuck for 2-10 minutes after a crash if it meant not having team mates that instantly leave when they die. Anyone that can't go 10 games without crashing to clear a crash from their leave record is crashing at an abnormally high rate. If you crash in more than 10% of your games that sounds like your computers fault and you probably should be playing with friends that like you cause otherwise you're screwing over random people.
