Normals

A friend and I were searching through the fire station in the northern outskirts of Elektro, but we didn't find anything good. But we decided to wait to see if anyone would show up (to take their stuff of course :P), with me climbing up the giant smoke stack to get a better view of the area. Then after a minute I notice a guy behind the north wall throwing flares, and smoke grenades all along the area near the main road. It looked like he was trying to signal someone, so I waited to see if something was going to happen. Sure enough I hear a car approaching from the north, with 3 heavily armed guys inside. With my heart pumping I lined up my CZ, and as the car came to a stop I opened fire on the front passenger seat. What happened next was pure mayhem. I took out front passenger, but the driver tried to bail. I lined up my shot again, and killed him before he was able to drive off. At the same time the two other guys (the one who got out of the backseat, and the one they were going to pick up) were panicking and firing at the zombies that they accidentally aggroed. The poor sap who got out of the backseat tried to get into the car to drive off, but accidentally got into the back again; I took another shot and 3rd one down. The last guy was bleeding bad and went to the small patch of woods to the west of the road to bandage himself. I lined up again but...click...I ran out of ammo. Thankfully I still had some ammo left in my sidearm, so I switched to my g17 to finish him off. Unfortunately all that shooting also attracted a shit ton of zombies to my location, and they climbed up the smoke stack to give me a big hug. Next thing I know I am getting mauled, breaking my legs, and falling off the side of the smoke stack to my death... As I was running back after my respawn, my friend took their car, and a found some AKs, along with a AKS on the main guy in the back seat. However as I got there to loot their bodies the server just stopped responding :-/. Utter bullshit lol. It reset for some odd reason, and when we logged back in it was pitch black. Luckily the car was still there, and did have headlights, so we decided to go for a joyride. However along the way I just HAD to smack into a small barricade, while speeding through Elektro, and got both of us killed in the process. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted lol :D.

I was going to post something similar as a suggestion, until I saw this, so I will just add my thoughts here. Having your body linger for 5 seconds after disconnecting is definitely A solution, but I don't think it solves the issue on its own. I'll give you an example: + Player A is stalking Player B + Player B notices Player A, takes cover in a nearby building + Player B tries to fire at Player A (and vice versa), but knows he can't do much against him, and hits disconnect behind cover....5 seconds done + Meanwhile while Player A is still being cautious and waits for Player B to appear, but nothing comes out So in addition to that, I think that a static time penalty of when people are able to disconnect, would deter it even further. Basically, certain actions by, or against, the player would add a 30 second penalty before they are able to disconnect, such as: + Firing a weapon + Aggroing a NEW set of Zombies + Receiving Damage (zombie/player) + Causing Damage (zombie/player) If the player continues to perform any of the actions above, it would just refresh the existing timer. Granted this still doesn't affect players who are getting fired upon, but are not getting hit, and are not getting aggro from zombies; however I think this would still help for the majority of hostile situations that people tend to disconnect from if things are not looking good.