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[Zoolander]

I'm makin this thread as i'm tired to wait for people that don't know how to join a game.
It's not the first time, and sure it wont be the last one either.

The start with, the 5 minute rule is a joke, really.
Open Wc3, join the game, choose the right team doesn't take more than 30 seconds, no matter how slow your computer is. Still we have a rule that say 5 minutes (and we that play .XP are to nice, we always wait like 7-10 mins before readding and sometime bans the person in question that didn't show up).

My suggestion to make this go away is simple.
Start with reducing the 5 minute rule to let's say 3 minutes. Then people wont go AFK for longer times (as it is now).
If someone needs some time extra to join mb cause of wc3 error or reboot or something, he have to announce it in .xp channel BEFORE THOSE 3 mins (even tho it should of been done BEFORE adding up).

If someone don't show up within the 3 mins (or the mb 1-2 extra mins that you can get if you announce that you need it for reboot or something) it's the players in the game responsiblity to BAN the person in question (as it rarley happens that we acctually use the cute BR function in .XP). Otherwise the players might end up with - points or 1 hour ban or something.

What would this solve? Yes, you would get players into the game faster, 30% of the games in .XP today you always have to wait a shitlong time before people acctually joining, sometimes up to 10 mins.

People wouldn't go afk when added as they know the risk of being banned is HIGH if they don't check the computer like every 2 minutes.

And people that acctually are infront of their computers will have a game!

[Witchking]

Even though I don't play in xp (yet), I would welcome this change in euro too. Every second or third game is delayed because some particular person always either seems to be afk or not able to join the game because he suddenly needs to restart his computer and doesn't tell anyone about it. Many people seem to skip the text that Sena says every time a game is ready ("join the battle.net BEFORE the game is ready, host open game when game is ready" or something like that).

Anyway I support this.

[IceMage400]

Even though I don't play in xp (yet), I would welcome this change in euro too. Every second or third game is delayed because some particular person always either seems to be afk or not able to join the game because he suddenly needs to restart his computer and doesn't tell anyone about it. Many people seem to skip the text that Sena says every time a game is ready ("join the battle.net BEFORE the game is ready, host open game when game is ready" or something like that).

Anyway I support this.

With bnet as it currently is you can get kicked out of it at anytime. Maybe that person was logged in when he added but he lost connection. Also not all problems are like that. I've had an error a few times when joining ghost bots that I lose connection to bnet when I try to join the game. Then when I want to join bnet again it says me something about trying to join the wrong server. The only way to fix this seems to be to competently reboot my comp. I agree that players should try to join asap but don't forget that with comps something always can go wrong.

[Zoolander]

Even though I don't play in xp (yet), I would welcome this change in euro too. Every second or third game is delayed because some particular person always either seems to be afk or not able to join the game because he suddenly needs to restart his computer and doesn't tell anyone about it. Many people seem to skip the text that Sena says every time a game is ready ("join the battle.net BEFORE the game is ready, host open game when game is ready" or something like that).

Anyway I support this.

With bnet as it currently is you can get kicked out of it at anytime. Maybe that person was logged in when he added but he lost connection. Also not all problems are like that. I've had an error a few times when joining ghost bots that I lose connection to bnet when I try to join the game. Then when I want to join bnet again it says me something about trying to join the wrong server. The only way to fix this seems to be to competently reboot my comp. I agree that players should try to join asap but don't forget that with comps something always can go wrong.

And that wouldn't be to hard to just announce in the channel? 95% of the cases it's about people being afk

[Tommel]

totally agree

so much games are delayed because someone is afk!

[exi]

dont see any point in it.. why dont u br the ppl after 5 mins now?

just another useless zoolie thread

[Jesstess]

I dunno, i think its better to go afk b4 game than right in game. Thats why i sometimes show up a few mins too late.

[Dany]

It's very easy to solve this problem on xp, just kick pryma!

[Zoolander]

It's very easy to solve this problem on xp, just kick pryma!

I acctually thought about PrymA when writing this as hes the king of not showing up.

[Cip]

Pryma will get 500h ban next time he goes afk. I warned him already.

[JourneysEnd]

I support this idea, dont go afk while added, or not possible to hear the notfication on irc. And yeah, pryma the king of afk ingame really needs to shape up :D

[Donnan_]

bottom line problem is that you dont banrequest late-showers and lobby-afkers. Time is something that we cant give back or gain so people should pay more attention and have more respect for other peoples time.

Start the banrequesting!

[Witchking]

I fear I cannot find Prymas' post you are referring to all time. :P

[Illuminatii]

bottom line problem is that you dont banrequest late-showers and lobby-afkers. Time is something that we cant give back or gain so people should pay more attention and have more respect for other peoples time.

Start the banrequesting!

totally agree! We are responsible for ppl who "always" show up too late and delay the starting of a game. Requ them if u recognize that some1 often delays games.

On the other hand i see this 5 min rule needed, because there can always happen somethin in rl which will influence ur joining or whatever...

[Dany]

I think we need the 5 min rule btw, sometimes on the morning you add upp early and then sit and wait 30-60min for the game to be full. I can't sit for 60 fuc***g minutes and looking on irc to see when the game is full. come on 5-10 minutes of your life isnt that much imo.