How come 2/3 games I play, someone quits in the first minute or less, and causes a chain reaction of everyone else on the team quitting.
What’s the deal?
Some people see the other team is stacked. Then they see their teammate is not building their base well/not using their scout. At that point they realize the game isn’t worth playing and quit instead of getting mad at their teammates over a period of 15 minutes.
> Some people see the other team is stacked. Then they see their teammate is building their base/not using their scout. At that point they realize the game isn’t worth playing and quit instead of getting mad at their teammates over a period of 15 minutes.
I’ve seen people quit even when the opposite was true. Their team was stacked, but they still instaquit. And I don’t understand what you mean when you say that building your base is bad. Are players supposed to build their base only after three minutes have passed?
> > Some people see the other team is stacked. Then they see their teammate is building their base/not using their scout. At that point they realize the game isn’t worth playing and quit instead of getting mad at their teammates over a period of 15 minutes.
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> I’ve seen people quit even when the opposite was true. Their team was stacked, but they still instaquit. And I don’t understand what you mean when you say that building your base is bad. Are players supposed to build their base only after three minutes have passed?
That was a typo, I meant to say not building their base well.
I’m a Colonel on that game and I always get stuck with Captains and Recruits. The other team always seems to have the Brigadiers and Generals. Sometimes I find myself on the stacked team. I quit those games because I want a challenge. I’m in it for the fun.
> I’m a Colonel on that game and I always get stuck with Captains and Recruits. The other team always seems to have the Brigadiers and Generals. Sometimes I find myself on the stacked team. I quit those games because I want a challenge. I’m in it for the fun.
I suppose that’s fair. There was a game last night where I was stuck with an unranked teammate (the other guy quit, seeing he was unranked), but I stayed. Hearing the other guy talk, it was clear he was a kid, no older than eleven or so. I figured I’d stick around and just play the game out. He was totally clueless, but it was cute. I managed to build a Scarab, and ward off a small invading force on my base, when another invading force attacked his base. I brought my Scarab in and wiped them all out, just barely saving his base, which was at a sliver of health.
The kid’s reaction was hilarious and cute. It felt fulfilling, even though we eventually lost horrendously.
Now I’m playing another game, and it’s a general, a major, and me (a captain) vs a major, a colonel, and a general. My two teammates quit in the first minute, and their colonel quit. I stayed, hoping to expect at least a fair fight, but of course the other team decides to send an unmanageable number of Warthogs at me. That’s when I resign. Not just because of the first glance of the teams, but when I see how they play.
I can get a recruit on my team and I don’t care. He can’t learn or get to a rank where he won’t be stigmatized if people keep quitting like jerks. And as far as anyone knows, he could actually be a pro. I only just started getting into online this year, but I’ve been playing this game since launch. I know the ins and outs. Judging someone by their rank is unfair.
This happens way too often. The problem is that there’s no penalty for quitting, unlike in Halo 3, where you lost an XP point.
> Judging someone by their rank is unfair.
So true, 90% of generals on this game play like recruits anyway.
I actually find it more irritating when someone resigns the instant their base is attacked. Example, playing as forge on deen, cutter on my team gets brute rushed and starts flaring his base since he doesn’t have any units and his barracks got denied, my prophet teammate starts flaring my 3 gunner hogs (built to clear expo) acting as if I’m going to be able to kill a chief and 4 brute squads with them, while his blessed immolation prophet sits next to his base… Cutter resigns, prophet resigns I lose 5 minutes later to brutes/spartans/tanks.
For those of you out there who resign as soon as your base is attacked, at least stay until your base is dead. Those few minutes of time they waste on you can really make the difference in a 1v3.
> > I’m a Colonel on that game and I always get stuck with Captains and Recruits. The other team always seems to have the Brigadiers and Generals. Sometimes I find myself on the stacked team. I quit those games because I want a challenge. I’m in it for the fun.
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> I suppose that’s fair. There was a game last night where I was stuck with an unranked teammate (the other guy quit, seeing he was unranked), but I stayed. Hearing the other guy talk, it was clear he was a kid, no older than eleven or so. I figured I’d stick around and just play the game out. He was totally clueless, but it was cute. I managed to build a Scarab, and ward off a small invading force on my base, when another invading force attacked his base. I brought my Scarab in and wiped them all out, just barely saving his base, which was at a sliver of health.
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> The kid’s reaction was hilarious and cute. It felt fulfilling, even though we eventually lost horrendously.
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> Now I’m playing another game, and it’s a general, a major, and me (a captain) vs a major, a colonel, and a general. My two teammates quit in the first minute, and their colonel quit. I stayed, hoping to expect at least a fair fight, but of course the other team decides to send an unmanageable number of Warthogs at me. That’s when I resign. Not just because of the first glance of the teams, but when I see how they play.
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> I can get a recruit on my team and I don’t care. He can’t learn or get to a rank where he won’t be stigmatized if people keep quitting like jerks. And as far as anyone knows, he could actually be a pro. I only just started getting into online this year, but I’ve been playing this game since launch. I know the ins and outs. Judging someone by their rank is unfair.
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> This happens way too often. The problem is that there’s no penalty for quitting, unlike in Halo 3, where you lost an XP point.
You’d be surprised how many good Recruits there are. I’m glad that I too stick those games out. I just really can’t stand being on the stacked team though. It is just too easy no matter what.
I personally never quit right off the bat because of stacked teams.
I may quit a clear loss a bit earlier than normal if we’re 10+ minutes into the game and I see the my teamamtes are still showing no desire to move their tiny army away form their base for the next half-hour. At that point saying in the game if we’re losing is a waste of time IMO.
> I personally never quit right off the bat because of stacked teams.
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> I may quit a clear loss a bit earlier than normal if we’re 10+ minutes into the game and I see the my teamamtes are still showing no desire to move their tiny army away form their base for the next half-hour. At that point saying in the game if we’re losing is a waste of time IMO.
Wow you had a half hour game i never have people normally Covie leader rush or rush the game is over like in 10 mins.
I only quit when my other teammates have quit and I am left to fend off rush attacks, or when I know there will be ultimate defeat very imminently.
I have recently been playing with a team and we’ve had a few hour+ games which were fun.
Usually the chain reactions of quitting occurs when people know there’s no way to win, or just give up on a 2v3 or 1v3. Or because they underestimate low ranked allies.
Minute 10? In that moment there’s usually 3 scorpions with Spartans attacking me and if I manage to destroy them 2 minutes later the complete enemy team is attacking me while my allies only have a couple of warthogs 