As most of you who have played Battlegrounds are aware there are a large number of player who join the game just to sit in the staging area and do nothing just for the after game awards. I have two solutions to this problem, both of which are fairly easy to implement.
Solution 1: Implement a 2 minute time out for those in the Battlegrounds which would kick out anyone who does not interact within the Battlegrounds outside of the staging area. Once outside of the staging area the timer stops for 30 seconds before resetting which would keep people from leaving the staging area and then reentering a second later and would give other players an opportunity to kill them and gain points. Now the reason I put such emphasis on the staging area aspect is because I know a lot of players lag during the Battlegrounds and could potentially reach a 2 minute lag spike(however unlikely that may be) so as long as they can be outside of the staging and hit that lag spike they would not be penalized for that.
Solution 2: Deny Battleground rewards for those who do not gain any points during the game. This would be much easier to implement and would be much more lag friendly. It would basically give players absolutely no benefit to AFK except to deliberately make the team they are on lose(or attempt to).
Now another suggestion halfway associated with Battlegrounds but more for general gaming would be a report player option when viewing a persons tooltip menu(where add friend, view, etc. are located). This would give players a better way to help police harmful players where GM's are unavailable.
Just a few things I've been thinking of, looking forward to some feedback.
Solution 1: Implement a 2 minute time out for those in the Battlegrounds which would kick out anyone who does not interact within the Battlegrounds outside of the staging area. Once outside of the staging area the timer stops for 30 seconds before resetting which would keep people from leaving the staging area and then reentering a second later and would give other players an opportunity to kill them and gain points. Now the reason I put such emphasis on the staging area aspect is because I know a lot of players lag during the Battlegrounds and could potentially reach a 2 minute lag spike(however unlikely that may be) so as long as they can be outside of the staging and hit that lag spike they would not be penalized for that.
Solution 2: Deny Battleground rewards for those who do not gain any points during the game. This would be much easier to implement and would be much more lag friendly. It would basically give players absolutely no benefit to AFK except to deliberately make the team they are on lose(or attempt to).
Now another suggestion halfway associated with Battlegrounds but more for general gaming would be a report player option when viewing a persons tooltip menu(where add friend, view, etc. are located). This would give players a better way to help police harmful players where GM's are unavailable.
Just a few things I've been thinking of, looking forward to some feedback.
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