Ze_PilOt wrote:
A lot of people are also asking why I've done a uniqueId feature. It's to avoid smurfing.
"How bad it can be ? Why should anyone abuse it ?"
Well, we make possible a easy change of the uniqueId for some special cases, and some people are already abusing it. So, here is your answer : A lot of people will pull out their cable.
A lot of people are also asking why I've done a uniqueId feature. It's to avoid smurfing.
"How bad it can be ? Why should anyone abuse it ?"
Well, we make possible a easy change of the uniqueId for some special cases, and some people are already abusing it. So, here is your answer : A lot of people will pull out their cable.
And simply screw over themselves or their team 99% of the time. What's stopping this now?
You think people are extremely motivated to throw a game on speculation their ACU will die in more than a minute in a game where they can share units at leasure anyways?
Compared to the potential 'benefit' of a smurf account?
If the donated units, regardles of how they were donated, die when the ACU dies (aka: isn't safely recalled after 1 minute, as per example, and as previously suggested)then, seriously, what exactly is abusable about that?
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Ahh, thinking, I can see it now. It was very limited strategic use, yes.
I wouldn't call it abuse, tho, altho I'll accept if you look at it differently!
So let's say it's 4 vs 4, TeamA and TeamB. Player1 of TeamA realizes he's kinda outclassed and/or his ACU is vulnerable.
He then starts donating stuff to his allies in an orderly fashion and hides aways his ACU (possibly in an allied base), and pulls the cable. ACU vanishes a minute later.
Odds are TeamA will be slightly better off than before, since they now have just 3 higher-skilled and more established players with the ressources of 4 (or whatever the one that left had, under duress probably not really much of use).
This would provide an advantage compared over that quitting players ACU dying, but it does not give his team an advantage over the other team.
I can see how this would kinda be a new feature then.
Regarding the 'panick-quit' option, I still think it's rather unrealistic, but the exact length of the grace period shouldn't be set in stone of course.
Personally, I think, given 70 seconds that I know my ACU will probably die, I'm pretty sure I'd at least manage to hide away the ACU and donate everything to an Ally!
That would be a much better outcome than pulling the cable.
And either way, if the cable is pulled and the stationary ACU dies within 1 minute, everything that player has would explode either way.
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Either way, an (well, two) insidious option to prevent any remote chance of abuse is:
a DoT to the 'escaping ACU', unsure about the size, say 50% of it's HP to a minimum of 1 HP (no suicide).
This would essentially double the grace period, since due to the nature of the grace period the ACU already dies by 50%.
This should be pretty much unsurvivable if you're idle for 60 seconds and in mortal danger in the first place.
This might seem overcomplicated, but it was established earlier that just checking the ACU for full HP doesn't work.
Another option might be replacing the DoT with a HP check at the end of the grace period.
A good idea might be: If it's HP are the same or higher than at the start of the grace period it's allowed to gate away.
(aka: taking damage during grace = death)
I mean, seriously, when do you know your ACU's gonna die but not going take any damage for a minute?
I don't think you ever know such a thing for certain like that.
Statistics: Posted by ElCapitan — 04 May 2012, 15:59
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