Title is the tl;dr
Auto-kick removes AFK players, but not disconnected ones. The following happened today which also illustrates another problem.
Waiting for the match to start, someone in my alliance apologizes that a RL crisis means they have to leave, and asks to be dismissed.
You cannot initiate a dismiss vote until 5 mins have elapsed, so we're down a player for 5 minutes.
15:00 pops up so I start the vote with "disconnected" selected. After a while I get the "rejected" notification. Er, wut?
Try again. Same result.
I then asked very nicely if everyone could accept the vote since this player was DC'd and had specifically requested we do this.
Third vote goes through.
I give the above details because it illustrates the need for automatic action against AFK/DC'd/lethargic players cos yer typical Frontliner don't give a crap.
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Auto-kick removes AFK players, but not disconnected ones. The following happened today which also illustrates another problem.
Waiting for the match to start, someone in my alliance apologizes that a RL crisis means they have to leave, and asks to be dismissed.
You cannot initiate a dismiss vote until 5 mins have elapsed, so we're down a player for 5 minutes.
15:00 pops up so I start the vote with "disconnected" selected. After a while I get the "rejected" notification. Er, wut?
Try again. Same result.
I then asked very nicely if everyone could accept the vote since this player was DC'd and had specifically requested we do this.
Third vote goes through.
I give the above details because it illustrates the need for automatic action against AFK/DC'd/lethargic players cos yer typical Frontliner don't give a crap.
Continue reading...