I don’t have too much of a problem with JiP. It certainly helps in some cases. However, what just happened to me right now happens way too often. I joined the Blue Team in an Oddball game in progress. The score was 276-56 to the Red Team. I was in the game for a full 13 seconds before it ended.
No doubt this will go down as a loss on my record. I no longer care about K/D or W/L because it takes enjoyment out of the game, but surely when the ranking system is introduced, it cannot rely on these kinds of games to produce an accurate rank?
I agree it needs to be fixed, but sometimes it really is a good thing. Games like CTF would be completely pointless to continue when you are outnumbered 2-5.
I really wish that it wasn’t something that was required at all. I personally believe that there needs to be a real penalty for people that quit in the middle of a match on a regular basis.
Yes, JIP needs to be fixed.
“And dont call me Shirley” (refrence, anyone?)
Airplane.
As for the JIP, I experience good and bad. The whole joining the losing team with barely any kills left in the game really irked me during DXP time. I like JIP, but it does need some more restrictions for what you can join.
I’d like something along the lines of:
Under 5 minutes left? It finds a different match
Under 10 kills left? It finds a different match
Under 10 minutes AND under 10 kills left? It finds a different match.
There’s a lot more, but just those few things would be nice. I’m sad that I mostly get tossed in to matches that have about 3 minutes left or under 10 kills to win.
I still think the appropriate way to fix this whole deal is to get rid of JiP and add REAL quit penalties. First of all there should be a surrender option for when your entire team quits and it’s just you vs 4 other people just spawn killing you over and over. When you quit out of one game, you drop a number rank (CSR) and lose as many credits as you would have gotten for finishing the match. If you quit out of so many games in a certain period of time, you get banned for a day. That would make people fear the ban.
Implementing penalties that harsh would do nothing but push people away. JIP is good and we’ve been wanting it for a long time. Now that we have it, it needs to be tweaked to not dump you in to just some match. It should search for the ideal match to drop you in. It would be much better if they pretty much just fixed the whole dropping you in to a match on the losing team with seconds left.