Graceful exit of team game.

[uzurpator]

Tangentally related the issue discussed here: /viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16686

It is quite common for larger team games to go for quite some time ( 1+ hours of real time ) and, at least for me, might mean that I am out of time for playing - for example because its 1am and I need to go to sleep. If I stumble upon a game that drags for such a long time it leaves me in a rather uncomfortable state, because:
- If I alt+f4 i screw over my team and possibly other team as well
- we started two hours ago and it does not seem to be ending soon because we dropped to -5
- alt+f4 might be considered a rating manipulation

Generally speaking, It seems bo be bad manners to exit for no reason other then my inability to continue.

Thusly - I suggest to at least consider some sort of graceful exit option for FAF.

Personally - I'd suggest:

An 'Evacuate' ACU upgrade which takes approx 1 minute to complete, is not cancellable and costs significant energy ( T3 level ). Once the 'upgrade' completes the ACU is removed from the game and some sort of sharing option is invoked for the rest of his team.

Obviously - the retreating player is considered a loser, regardless of the final result of the game.

Essentially - maybe there should be an option to exit the game gracefully without screwing over other players. This also seems to be an option for everyone to vote on kicking a lagger, griefer or low-cpu dude without suffering consequences.

Opinions?

[Geosearchef]

Leaving a game is not considered rating manipulation. Just don't join games when you have no time and leaving a game after 2 hours shouldn't be a problem for anyone. Nobody can expect you to stay in a long game that is running that slow. The problem I see with your suggestion is that it takes time away from developers. It isn't possible to consider this player as loosing the game e.g. without changing the rating system on the server which I wouldn't recommend touching.

Voting on kicking a player will NEVER happen as this can be abused way too easily.

[____]

I agree with Geosearchef.
If the game is -5 and lasted 2h already, chances are that a good portion of your team does not want to continue anyway. Just tell them that you will have to go because it is getting late for you. As long as you don't do that every second game, I think most will not have a problem with that.

Also: Don't alt f4, just quit over the menu, alt f4 can cause the connection screen to show up for the players still in the game you quit.

[moonbearonmeth]

Just gift your stuff then sit your acu in the corner of the map and go to sleep.

[AaronD]

Recently had a teammate do that - then another player disconnected and we had to eject him. Guess what the outcome of that was?

[JoonasTo]

Recently had a teammate do that - then another player disconnected and we had to eject him. Guess what the outcome of that was?

Wait five minutes for autokick.

[Deisu]

Just transfer your stuff to another player, or two other players for the sake of redundancy, and walk your com somewhere safe and AFK.

I had to go to a movie in the middle of an exceedingly lengthy dual gap game that i had started in the morning and had already run into the late afternoon. Seriously this game lasted forever, we had already build and lost two Mavors when I left. I came back to a victory screen and one player having built 14 Cybran T3 arty. That was neat.

Recently had a teammate do that - then another player disconnected and we had to eject him. Guess what the outcome of that was?

You reclaimed all their stuff for mass and pumped it into a game ender and won?