Quitting Penalty/Negative Stats

I would personally prefer active ranking system after level cap where performance of player is measured. Something which was done in Battlefield 2: Modern Combat based on points per hour rating. Something similar measurement would keep community active and engaged after reaching level cap while keeping competitive minds satisfied. Would require scoring logic change but it could clarify what actions are truly contributing.

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@BASSMEANT_RAW wrote:

Quitting out before the match ends should be penalized. The penalty should be progressive, the more often you do it, the higher the penalty. It should be scaled upwards so the longer you wait before doing it, the more it costs you.

The system should now be able to track and accurately stat handle negative stats. Folks at the bottom of the scoreboard who did nothing for the length of the game and went 2/12 kd should be losing xp and level progress.

the days of molly coddling the lesser capable players are over. with 64 players per side, folks are gonna have to learn to carry their weight.

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Though all agreeing with your principles there, think it would work better by progressively rewarding positive behaviors versus penalizing negative behaviors. 

So have multipliers kicking in, for every aspect of your game activities that promote you and team winning/playing for the objectives, and that these multipliers are escalating up the longer and more consistent you deliver to these objectives.

This is the better option, but it is still not a good one. How is a crash handled?

They got the same thing in Fifa Ultimate Team, where you got a coin multiplicator. So you start with 1x and if you play without quitting you get 1.1x, 1.2x...

@BASSMEANT_RAW 

Quitting repeatedly yes, but not the odd one or two times you lose connection or have to leave the game because real life intervenes (and surely only if your team is losing).

Very difficult to implement stat tracking and scoreboard position fairly. You can join a game that is close to finishing, spawn on your squad and get insta-killed.  Game ends, you have zero kills, a death and zero score. You shouldn't be punished for that.

The other problem would of course be hackers. Hopefully sorted this time round, but why should you be punished because a hacker is destroying your team (and with your first option get punished if you leave).

https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Battlefield-leaving-a-match-early-when-losing/m-p/10483997#M7124

As I said in the thread linked above, I am against any punative punishment from what, in many cases, is just 'life'.

A return of the quit % would suffice in my opinion. 

Awful Idea and it doesn't make any sense.

I can fully understand your situation, but punishing by leaving a match in a "no ranked" mode with no "e-sports league" or similiar doesn't make any sense and punish everyone.

There are several possibilities to clear the problem but a "penalty" or a "punishment" isn't the right way, and also if I remember correctly you gain a lose for leaving a match on your stats (please correct me if I am wrong).

1. One solution could be to implement a rework on conquest mode like Call of Duty Modern Warfare on their Ground War Mode did with the "DEFCON Countdown". This means as soon a team has all "flags" (in BF2042 all sectors) there should start a Countdown (1 minute or something like that) where the team has to capture at least 1 flag to show they are at least trying to capture and hold a point. This would give the losing team the preasure at least to try to capture a point and hold and if not well you don't have to play 20 minutes where the entire team is "outnumbered" or "camping" or doing "battlefield moments". For the winning team it would also be a favour because this rounds are often relaxing but also very boring. The next round/match should then entirely be new mixed or filled up. But this solution would be only for "Objective" based modes. ☹️

2. Another solution could be to investigate and gather intel why people actually leaving the lobby? What are they feared for? Is this because it's a waste of time? It's because they are afraid of their "K/D" (Kill/death ratio)? Or it's because the kids/wife/husband is calling for breakfast/lunch/dinner? Because you joined a lobby in a middle of a match and you don't want to play with these people who aren't able to out manouver the enemy team and at least try to capture another point because nearly everyone is trying their "challenge" or is "new" or just unable because the enemy team is to strong? Sometimes you played so good that you just got dropped on the loosing team will be punished with a "lost" for cause of teambalancing? Because you as player just completed your challenge doesn't want to play the entire round/match because you don't like the game mode? With that "knowledge" DICE should at least able to implement some sort of motivation system or karma system but this could probably also abused very easily.

3. Instead of also punish people why not the opposite effect... for a streak of not leaving matchs (except for disconnect errors (3 disconnect errors in a row should detect as suspisous), CE-Error (gameplay error's that crash your game) and leaving a round at the beginning of the round while the countdown is still running) should a player reward with extra progress on their "Battlepass" or something like that. This will give loyalty players a nice gift for their efforts to get over with the "bad" rounds.

There are to many scenarious for leaving a match... so a punishment system would make nearly only sense on a "ranked" mode.

Remember, Battlefield is no "E-Sport" .

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@BASSMEANT_RAW wrote:

Folks at the bottom of the scoreboard who did nothing for the length of the game and went 2/12 kd should be losing xp and level progress.

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The guy with the 2/12 KD might still be the only guy in that game, that tried to play the objective.

So NO to any progression loss.