How to ameliorate alt+f4 problem

[Wutangrza 7]

We can break the alt+f4 problem down into two sub-categories, players who disconnect to avoid dying and players who disconnect after dying as a punitive measure against their killers. I have a suggestion that would at least fix the latter.

Remove the option to hide someone's body.

I know a lot of people think this is a terrible suggestion, but hear me out. Right now players alt+f4 even if they know they are already dead because they don't want to give any loot to their killer and because they assume the killer will loot their stuff and then hide their body, removing any chance they had of retrieving any of their gear. If the option to hide body were removed, players wouldn't alt+f4 once they were dead because they would have an incentive to return to their body and at least reclaim some of their loot. I know personally if I am kitted out I never alt+f4 because there's a good chance that if I just head back to my body I'll be able to at least reclaim some of my gear. If this turned into a guarantee then the incentive to disconnect once dead for all players would be removed.

The downside to this is that it removes the only appreciable loot sink left in the game, but that's a design issue that probably doesn't have a super quick fix and honestly the amount of gear removed through hide body is negligible when contrasted with the annoyance of people alt+f4'ing or the lack of significant loot sinks to begin with.

[teapot156 79]

I think your suggestion would ameliorate the problem. I am bequeathing you my beans.

Edited August 6, 2012 by teapot

[Wutangrza 7]

I think your suggestion would ameliorate the problem. I am bequeathing you my beans.

I will now abscond with your beans before anyone else derides us for our witty palaver.

[Food 309]

I always hide bodies without even looting. But then again I have already have everything I need, and I'm a troll.

But DON'T shoot at me if you don't want to get killed.

[random51 172]

I don't think the OP understands, these people are alt-f4'ing in the hope that their death doesn't get recorded by the Hive.

They're not worried about looting their corpse because they don't expect to be dead when they log back in on a different server.

Denying your loot to whomever killed you is just a consolation prize for when your exploit fails.

[Wutangrza 7]

I don't think the OP understands, these people are alt-f4'ing in the hope that their death doesn't get recorded by the Hive.

They're not worried about looting their corpse because they don't expect to be dead when they log back in on a different server.

Denying your loot to whomever killed you is just a consolation prize for when your exploit fails.

I've never had an alt+f4 save me when I was actually dead. Hacker came in, killed everyone on the server, I immediately alt+f4 but I'm still dead. I know you can use alt+f4 to get out of a firefight if you're low health, but the one time I used it to try and duck a death I still died. You're saying you can alt+f4 a hacker kill or a .50 cal round (something that you are definitely dead and not just low health)?

I thought once you saw a negative health that was it, game over.

Edited August 6, 2012 by Wutangrza