Bus ban
BenTiger
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Please implement a 10 to 30 minute bus ban on people that join and just sit idle, while everyone else has to take out the enemies for them. Also, if they don't take any actions, remove the rewards from them as well. Even the players who don't know how to work as a team are not as detrimental to the team
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I don’t think the proposal works for everyone every time
When playing with 4 friends I was sat waiting for the fortress countdown to get to zero whilst my friends were battling waiting for me to join. I observed similar behaviour with another fortress battle with a different group
There are several issues at play which could look like participants are not joining in, it’s hard to differentiate wilful inactivity from not being able to participate
@BenTiger there is a widespread bug that may cause a player to get knocked out of a challenge and have to restart their app in order to rejoin the fight. While this is happening, it looks to the other players like this person is not participating. It would not be fair to ban someone based on a technical problem beyond their control.
You can read more (lots more) about the bug here:
The problem is that every case is different. Yes, I noticed Energy Savers who let other people do the dirty job. But...
As a Professor I always expect Aurors to give me Focus in the very beginning. If they don't do that, and everyone start jumping on enemies, I still wait until 3 enemies get defeated and I can cast the Proficiency Boost on the whole team.
Also, it might be the case that players know their weakness and proficiency and they don't want to take on an enemy that could take a whole minute for them to take down, while another profession could **** it in 20 seconds.
For me as a magi, usually cast bravery charm right at the start if there's professor and elit foe on round 1 enemy (thats usually cost inviguration potion) if no elit foe at round 1 i'll wait after a couple of foes (round 1 enemy) been defeated. Thats usually give focus below 5 which is undesireable but still engage in battle hoping it will reach 5 or more midbattle.
Twice, the game just froze for me in a chamber. I'd have loved to do something, only I couldn't - all I had was a black screen and the clock. Oddly, the chamber then timed out and I got rewards.
So, yes, there should be done something about those leeches, but at least sometimes, it will be only technical problems.
I uninstalled. Players left the dark 5 within a minute after joining causing me to lose. I had already used my 2 invirogation potions and my rune. I'm sorry. It's not losing because I lost a pogo raid the same day but other players causing me to lose because they're unwillingly to finish or fight. Sorry hours of brewing was gone in less than a minute because suddenly they change their minds. Really.