Heavy penalties for disconnecting during firefights.

[Cerbo Knight 48]

First off, I want to say I am an asshole sniper and I do shoot on sight to ensure the safety of my squad, alot. With that out of the way, I can continue.

I was camping the Balota airfield with a group of friends on our way to Cherno, when 2 survivors came out of nowhere. One killed me, and I respawned up north of the airfield with all of my gear that I had before the 1.7.2.2 update (A glitch, though not an unwelcome one in this case...), I headed south to regroup with my squad who had taken one of the two survivors out at this point, and by the time I'm about 1k away my squad is dead with only my killer remaining at the control tower.

So, not unlike any other player who has just been killed I want some delicious revenge. But I had been blessed with a second chance in the form of all of my loot from before the update including my DMR, and now I'm well within range I line up a shot. 200m away, so not a chance that I've missed him... But no kill? OH WAIT, YOU DC'ED. OOOH.

And now I'm being attacked by a zombie. And at this point I realise I'm not going to make it, I've got 8k blood and no bandages... Bleeding out. But what's this? A ray of hope? My killer reconnects. After dispatching the final zombie, I choose to lay in wait for an opportunity to strike... again. I'm on 3k blood and have no chance of living, I might as well take you down with me. BUT NO. You disconnect after I shoot you, AGAIN!

Well, better run to a safe place for my corpse to stay, my teammate is at the tower now and we should be able to reclaim all of our loot that would have been lost before... But no. I arrive back at my body after a long run only to find that you've taken all of the backpacks with the most precious of our valuables in them when you server jumped, multiple times. All except my freshest body are looted dry and my killer nowhere to be seen.

I don't mind dying... but what I do mind is shooting pointlessly at game breaking assmonkeys that disconnect before dying.

Sorry for being so rude, I don't know if you can tell but it's a subject I feel a little strongly about, it's not the first time it's happened to me but this is the worst time. Harsh penalties need to be put in place for these people, and fairly fast. I know Rocket already made an announcement about it but I don't want him to forget about this.

I propose a name and shame for the time being, a shoot on sight list for disconnectors. It might not work well but I'd rather do something than nothing.

[Ultenth 12]

What about people that disconnect unintentionally? Like their power goes out, or their internet, or their computer crashes, or the game crashes, or the server crashes? You realise the outcry of people that lost weeks worth of work to a random DC will make the current people crying about someone DC'ing on them in a firefight or to outwit zombies look like a whisper in comparison right?

I'm not saying something shouldn't be done, but it's a much more complex issue than you give it credit for.

Edited July 14, 2012 by Ultenth

[Blakorr 77]

firefight disconnectors should have a flare animation attached to them for an hour starting with their next login. they are unable to throw, drop, or otherwise get rid of the flare animation except by dying.

[Blakorr 77]

and to determine if you're in a firefight, perhaps something like WoW's entering/leaving combat system is necessary

Edited July 14, 2012 by Blakorr

[esteban_haas@hotmail.com 4]

Well... i rather have measures against server hop and firefight dcers even if it causes some issues when you get disconnected for some other reason, last night my clan almost lost our Civilian Ural against 3 guys, the tale goes like this, we were around north of Kabanino when i spotted 3 guys in the clear area to the south near the barn and lake in kabanino, my whole clan when out of the truck ( 7 guys ) and started an attack formation towards them, i managed to kill one of them with a snipy shot and the other 2 dissapeared hmmm, i though they were running away like we saw couple of seconds before an after we continue towards the single body laying in the floor i had a bad feeling and started returning to the truck, when i turned back i saw a guy running towards our truck 200 meters away! i was shocked! the god damn player dced to reconnect back near the truck and try to steal it! i start firing at him and told everyone else but he did make it to the truck and started escaping, luckily he was badly injured and died after driving for like 200 meters! then when we recovered the truck the third guy logged in really near the truck and started firing we all went down again to own that guy and of course DC!! you see, im not against dying i mean i like to risk myself and i hate to camp! but losing stuff because of dc exploiters and lame ass players that dc to avoid being killed and even worst move to a safe place and kill you its just lame! it needs an inmediate fix! i rather be fucking sniped without even noticing who is shooting me than dcing because im too scared to die and because i dont want to admit that im fucked! -.-", please... we need something against this behavior! it destroys the fun of the game sometimes! like i told you... i rather be owned and that someone steal my vehicle than just disconnect.

[Cerbo Knight 48]

What about people that disconnect unintentionally? Like their power goes out, or their internet, or their computer crashes, or the game crashes, or the server crashes? You realise the outcry of people that lost weeks worth of work to a random DC will make the current people crying about someone DC'ing on them in a firefight or to outwit zombies look like a whisper in comparison right?

I'm not saying something shouldn't be done, but it's a much more complex issue than you give it credit for.

From my own experience, the last 5 firefights I've been in, 3 of them had all of the opposing players dc. The other 2 were one shot kills and they didn't have time to dc.

I'll admit that you can't just punish everyone who disconnects, but I'd suggest anyone who disconnects after taking damage would loose a set amount of blood, it would cut down on the amount of people who server hop to avoid death. Or maybe their character stays on the server for 15 seconds or so? Something needs to be done about it though.

[Doctor_sloth 119]

Get over it. We didn't need another "plz punish D/C n00bs" topic in the forums.

[Cerbo Knight 48]

Get over it. We didn't need another "plz punish D/C n00bs" topic in the forums.

Yeah, I get it. You love to DC and you don't want it taken out. Tough, it's a game breaking exploit. All that needs to happen now is that it gets sorted out.

[Smacked 30]

This really does need to be fixed...but..not to be a downer on your idea but any sort of "list" would really be pretty pointless, as most player names are their real life first name so there may be more than one "Bob" or "Joe". Second, the chance is just too low that someone will have seen this 'list', know its the person on the list, and be able to shoot him.

I myself proposed an idea but is of course, not really going to be able to work due to accidental d/cs.

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/29952-solution-to-pvp-loggingalt-f4ing-etc/

[Cerbo Knight 48]

True, I do use a generic name in-game as well... I think the timer is the best way to deal with it, leaving your character on the server for a set amount of time after disconnecting