Until we can press alt-p to punch someone in the nuts across the interwebs, rage quitting will always be an issue in online gaming.

Coming from a 3 year DOTA background, RQ'ers (aka leavers) have always been a problem. I support having strong penalties for people who arbitrarily leave.  The other alternative is to have some sort of 3rd party tool tied to Impulse that allows you to ban a player by ACCOUNT, such that you would never have to play with that loser again.  This would probably be a much more viable solution.

When people like myself who take having my arse handed to me like a man by not RQ'ing, experience playing with someone who RQ's we get infinitely more pissed coz we have the decency to behave otherwise.  Hence I do not agree with Frogboy's stance on the issue (assuming this IS his stance).

again, it sounds like a 3rd party banlist program with an integrated shared database of Impulse userID's is the only way to resolve this issue.  Guess it will take some time though and the game certainly needs to be stabilzed before then.

Zakariel, that issue has already been brought up, and strongly opposed by the majority of the forum-going population for a number of reasons. Banlists are fine locally, but using a global banlist is stupid, and leaves you trusting the legitamacy of Joe-chows-on-paste's bans.

i support people having a personaly no play list as in not playing with certain people  but making it so that if u bad mouth the wrong dude you get banned shoved on a list which alot off people use and that would limit the people you play with

and make it a worse game

i dont see why people want a banlist  can't they  just  open a notepad file and right down the name off any assholes they hate in it

and check it before the match starts if there is one just leave the match

Guys, the problem with stern punishments for rage quitting is stuff happens and it's just a game.  What if my game just crashed?  What if my wireless went out for a second?  What if something IRL came up and I had to deal with it?

Besides, the reality is that it's looking like the playerbase is small enough that too much banning of each other is going to make matchmaking exceeding difficult.

I am going to assume that you have the intelligence to understand that such behaviour would not be socially acceptable IRL.  So why should the virtual world be different?  Because we are not facing each other?  This is why RQ'ing can be translated as abuse of the anonymity of the internet.

When I play online, I make a comittment to complete the game becuase I realize that the people I am playing with are human beings and expect them to behave in kind, by not leaving my game just as I, out of respect, will not leave theirs.  Having said that, I can still see quitting as a viable way to end the game if all the following 3 criteria are true:

1)  We are overwhelmgly losing (due to feeders / ppl disconnecting)
2)  We have been overwhelmgnly losing for a long time
3)  Our opponents are deliberately postponing their victory by not destroying the citadel, instead just pwning us, and have been doing so for a while.

I have been playing online for a week and have yet to see the aforementioned scenario.  Sofar the community has not been too bad.  So whats your excuse?

Now, moving on to solutions;  I retract my statement where I said that people should lose rating when they quit a game, becuase sometimes, there are legitimate technical reasons for leaving.  This is why a 3rd party banning application would be more viable where you can decide for yourself if the RQ'er is bannable or not by using your discretion.  If you are not 100% sure, don't ban.  Also don't ban the 2nd person for leaving if one person has already left on his team etc.  Whatever you decide, your banlist database would be specific to yourself and your friends so it wont really matter anyway.

Another solution that the devs should implement is to NOT allow the AI to take over a player but simply allow the players themselves to take control over that demi by taking his items etc to further balance things out.  Finally the players on the RQ'ers team could be compensated with extra gold / XP gain on top of the items of the RQ'er. Its not a perfect solution but at least a step in the right direction.

EDIT: added some more clarfications.

As I recall, in the thread where someone introduced his own Global banlist it was shut down by the majority of players. I've searched a couple times through my responses but couldn't come up with the thread .

Either way, the fact remains that if you just trust everyone who uses the banlist to 'not ban unreasonably' you will run into problems. Ragers are not limited to people who leave games and don't own a banlist, and therein lies the problem. Without saving every single replay of every game you ever play (not to mention, Demigod does not have replays that I'm aware of), you would eventually get banned by someone for beating him/disagreeing/not playing well eventually, and thus the Banlist would serve no purpose but to alienate and lose users.

dannnng 400 or 500 points is a huge penalty. Atleast for a newer player.

Then Player D will make a decision, stay and play with the banned player, or not.