Unfortunately, the majority of people play this just to win. This comes straight from DotA; everyone leaves once it becomes evident that they aren't winning.

If its totaly obvious that one team is going to lose no matter what they do, I have no problems in them quiting . Now having said that, what really irritates me are the guys who die once or twice and Rage quit leaving the other two members of their team to now play a game they will obviously lose. The games not lost based on 1 or 2 kills.

make it so that people lose favor when they quit early.. you could have it be like 100 favor within 0 - 10 minutes of the game starting, 75 for 10-15 mins of game starting, 50 for 15-20 mins of game starting, 0 from there on

just throwin an idea out there that might deter people from leaving so early..

It seems more that players quit over having to respawn a few times rather than the general tilt of the match, I've had people quit matches after dying 2-3 times in a row even when their team was clearly winning by quite a lot.

The only problem with people leaving mid-game after they now they lost is that the winners dont get favor if everybody leaves and only AIs are left.

Well in professional gaming you can predict when you will loose quite well.

And I have to differtiate between the two possible situations.

Like GunslingerBara said it's  expected that you give up if you see a clear lose.

But on the other hand all professional players will fight to the last second if there is a slim chance of winning.

And that is the difference to most people here.

They leave if they are killed three times in a row. But especially in dominate that means nothing.

And the second difference to professional gamers is that those give up with full appraisal and respect for the winner and don't quit and run out of the hall.

That's the reason why I am for a capitulate button.

Because people leave because that game is not fun any more for them.

The problem is, the player still in the game needs to play till the end vs AIs and is cheated about his fun.

A capitulate button would increase fun for boh people: The loser has the chance to play a new game with hopefully better odds for him and the winner gets the deserved win.

Sure will they use such a GUI dialog if you force them to

First it would help if the "end game" option is taken away in any match vs players and there would be only a dialog: "do you want to capitulate?" only after that you could leave without shutting the game down. And that would kinda force the other players to vote for capitulate too. Hey perhaps it would be a nice idea to remove your demigod if you exit via this method instead of giving it to AI controll.

And additionally it would be improving the constancy/persistency of the game matches if penalties for exiting would be implemented. I dont mean anything harsh but some large markings of how many DCs someone has or some minor favor point loses. And if using the "capitulate button" avoids that(and gives you the full points) my guess would be that many would do so.

And even if those game side methods wouldn't work, it would at least provide me and many other with the little satisfaction of the knwodledge that those need to shut down demigod, unplug their internet connection etc.

And lastly one debatable solution at least for custom games would be an ingame blacklist.

And using the "capitulate button" could make it impossible to put you on this blacklist.

Especially this would have noticable success.

It doesn't really matter when you're just as likely to lose all your favour playing normally.

I almost never resigned when I played chess.  But I was playing with people who were amateurs -- my rating was around 1400 and I hardly ever played anyone whose rating was over 1800.  There was a real chance that the other guy would offer his Queen up on a platter, or if not the Queen, then at least a few pawns or a Bishop.  Or maybe I could catch him with a sneaky mate-in-5 combination.

Once you start talking about play at the expert level and above, though, the odds of that sort of blunder become vanishingly rare, and it would be not just impolite but insulting to keep playing when you clearly have no way to win -- you're basically saying "I bet you might still make a newbie mistake and hand me the game".

I don't get why so many people hate playing the underdog so much that they'd rather act like a little baby that doesn't get his way and quit, leaving this teammates (granted probably strangers) in even greater trouble to go sit in the lobby. I think I might enjoy playing a defensive match even more than one where I have the advantage. The best is probably a good, long balanced game though. Those almost never happens though. There is always some retard that decides to go cry to his mommy because someone took the flag he wanted, even though it was a good, balanced game.

also i leave when there is lag i will put up with it for a bit to see if it settles down but if its laggy i leave

The issue is that once you are behind there is no real way to come back. The whole problem stems from when a demigod dies. The extra gold and timeout gives the otherside such an advantage that its basically not worth playing.

The solution I propose is pretty radical - When a player dies they are out of the match. When all DGs on a side are dead the otherside wins.

This would quickly stop all the players that keep dying on towers and giving gold to the opposition. It would also make the games alot quicker when players werent evenly matched.

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Okay then... I guess it wouldnt be much fun. What about 3 lives max?