YOU pick the hot drop, YOU get penalized for immediately DC'ing after the knock

@Gator762FMJ

"if you're checking the box to fill Squadmates, you're consenting to play as a squad."

If you're checking the box to fill squadmates it's because you're not willing to wait 10 minutes for a match.

And careful with the whole "consenting to play as a squad" thing. That means different things to different people and you might easily find yourself the object of someone else's ire for a failure to imagine the game as they imagine it.

I would be the poster boy for this. As an experienced player who solo queues and most commonly is matched with seven year-old children who have 50 matches under their belt and the youthful assurance that they know everything there is to know about the game... I'm sure I could make a very legitimate case against each and every one of them for "not playing as a team," "for engaging in foolish, high-risk behavior," "for recklessly endangering themselves and their squadmates," and just generally "for not playing properly (meaning, the way I play)." Should I advocate for getting them all banned? Should they all sit a corner for ten minutes to think about what they did? I don't think so. They should get on with their lives. As should we all. With our casual, un-ranked, free-to-play game.

"10 minute ban from matches would seriously curtail the practice." Maybe, maybe not. It might just cause them to stay and screw with you in other ways out of spite. It might cause them to tiktok for 10 minutes and then repeat. It might cause the game to lose half its population. Let's face it: quitters buy things in the store just like everyone else.

And finally: if your jumpmaster chooses an LZ that you know is just plain dumb then you should break off. Period. Stop enabling that kind of stupidity. Whether they quit when downed is beside the point. Every time experienced teammates go along with a bad jumpmaster they send him the message that what he's doing is okay. And it isn't.