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Dodger
27 Aug 2012, 11:37
Total slaughter beckoned as my opponent had two huddled together ripe for the killing off, and his final player was trapped at the end of the screen.
As soon as it passed to my go...he surrendered.
The dark side raised it's ugly head against the spirit of the game leaving a shadowy raised middle finger where should have sat the spoils of war.
Damn it...I'm taking this too seriously!
:rolleyes:

Bytrix
27 Aug 2012, 12:58
Haha, I know! I've had a few people quit on me too :(

JLo
29 Aug 2012, 14:58
Agreed. We may need to catch these cheats out ;)
Also see this thread (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=58145).

henneph
9 Sep 2012, 16:15
if i can see i've lost and have no way of winning, i usually just get out ye old skipping rope :P

Dodger
26 Sep 2012, 18:25
Current favourite seems to be to quit right at the end of the game.
But all this does is robs them of their 170 coins and any possible bonus.
Makes absolutely no sense at all...anybody know why they do it then?

JLo
7 Oct 2012, 11:25
Current favourite seems to be to quit right at the end of the game.
But all this does is robs them of their 170 coins and any possible bonus.
Makes absolutely no sense at all...anybody know why they do it then?
Yeah we used to see it a lot more, before we added the new 1st & 2nd place bonuses and penalties for surrendering players (or even showed a results screen for surrendered battles).
Anyone who still quits is clearly missing the point, and the goodies ;) AND the remaining player gets some reinforcements back (as well as winning coins) depending on how far into the battle they were when the other player quit.
If this still isn't enough, we'll just have think up even more incentives :cool:

Lmpycustrd
10 Oct 2012, 16:40
I noticed that the dark-sider that quits does not get any bonuses(hence the white flags over the amount) but they still get 170 coins while the winner/non-quitter gets 250. I think those 170 should go to the person who stays in the game. If someone quits early, they deserve nothing in my opinion. The matches are only 3 minutes long! Take it like a man and stay in the game!

ElBobbo
10 Oct 2012, 21:02
If they quit, they don't get anything!! Does it look like they get 170 coins? Will look into this...

ChiSoxFan8
13 Oct 2012, 19:20
Why do we need the surrender at all? I work all game damaging enemies so I can finish them off with a certain weapon for acheivements, but then they just surrender and I don't get the kill.

ElBobbo
17 Oct 2012, 16:28
The Surrender is there so people can leave the match. We don't WANT them too, but the only other option would be to close the browser window. If we don't put that surrender option in, they will be forced to closed the browser and leave the entire game! This, we DEFINITELY do not want!

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