And what about people who get disconnected against their will? I'm in the UK and have Sky Broadband, and even on a 10mb connection it sometimes times out around 12 - 2am (I can't always play earlier than that due to other things). I think not all connections are fair enough to allow that, but maybe as a setting that SOME servers can use? For example if people who disconnect annoy you, then join one of the servers with a similar system to what you suggest in place, can place in peace that people who try to disconnect will be punished, but also players who suffer from somewhat random Internet outages can play on servers that don't penalise for it. I think there Is no simple way to fix this problem, but there are many ways to approach it. tl;dr - Make the disconnect 45 second thing an option, to make it "fair"