The OP is probably reasonable enough to understand that someone who is losing badly would accept leaving and taking a loss rather than play on. The problem is that if you are ever out of the lead you can leave with repercussion. So the simple answer is allow the other players to agree to a save & continue option. Other than that a quit should be a loss...

Easily solved.

The "Quit" option should be renamed "Parley"
If a player clicks it, the other players get a message to accept or decline.
If the majority accept the game ends, no wins/losses. Works fine for in friendly games or when a save is needed.
If the majority decline or it's a tie, the player will have to surrender to leave early.

I have seen other players come back from the brink of death to dominate the end game. I have come back from the brink of death to dominate the end game. It's not over until your last planet falls.

In an FFA, fair enough to leave. In a 1v1 fair enough to leave.

Don't join a team game unless you're prepared to see it through.

Never join a game called 3v3 NO QUITTERS if you're a sore loser. I have a blacklist of players that do this, they will never play a game I'm hosting again.

Lion heart you are on it. Lion heart indeed.

Why are they joining a team game if they don't want to play against a team?



I get no special enjoyment out of an easy win, but I can't find good players easily as there isn't a ranking system.



Yes it would, that's why I challenged another clan last weekend, and will do so again. It takes time to coordinate though and isn't feasible during the week because of different timezones. So in the week I host games for anyone to join.

In a 1v1, if you have been hammered and don't want to watch your empire fall, this is what the Surrender button is for. Not the quit button.

In a team game, if the whole team has been hammered, again they should surrender.

'Landslide' can happen to a whole team, but not to one member individually in a team. If one member of a team is losing, they should fight for every speck of dust in their systems so their teammate can make a comeback. Think of how much disruption a small pirate fleet can cause. A player on the fall can create more delay than this.

I must admit that this game is far too linear. You either slowly win, or slowly lose; that is what makes this a fairly boring game.

In RTS' like Company of Heroes you could be losing the first half of the game, then come back and destroy the enemy in the second half. There isn't much of that in this game, so why should players stay in the game another 2 hours if they are just going to get "slowly" destroyed?

thats OK...fair enough...

I agree for a 1v1 game, that it is fairly liner but in a game with six or eight players, you can get come back with a little help from third and fourth parties intervening. If I am playing a guy one versus one, and it is clear that I am going to win, I do not mind if he surrenders at that time rather than drag the game out until the end and waste both of our time. In one versus one, if I am clearly going to lose, I will surrender also, but only after trying to learn from the victor through Q & A.

I did play a game the other night 1v1 that was very fun, where we invaded eachothers home systems from different routes, and there was a lot of zooming around trying to save planets on both sides. I did eventually win, but the outcome was in doubt for a good 90 minutes or so...

Stats should be abolished.
They just encourage griefing, smurfing and other annoying stuff.

The only thing needed is a system which allows to roughly classify a player as nub, intermediate or pro.

So eloquent!

This game does suffer from "The Slow Death", where once you're losing, you pretty much can't turn it around unless the enemy leaves.

There should be some kind of bonus for smaller teams and pirates... like the pirates offer a discount for their services (it's in their interest never to let one side win, cause then they'd get smashed by an empire).

That anyone is stupid enough to think 'there shouldn't be a quit button' simply astounds me. Absolutely - lock people in a room and FORCE THEM TO PLAY UNTIL THE END! There can be only ONE! This is SERIOUS BUSINESS! There is certainly no other way to quit the game at all, right?

Anyone who thinks 'ranked = no quitters' is horrificly ill-informed. You will ALWAYS, ALWAYS get quitters, for many reasons already mentioned in this very thread (ie, throwaway accounts, fact that the end result is often very obvious after 15m yet will take 5h to play out, etc) and many other reasons common to all multiplayer games. The format of Sins just makes it more appealing due to time issues.

The common elitism is of course expected. Obviously, any team game means anyone who isn't a clanner with a prearranged-to-the-second build deserve to lose and shouldn't be surprised, or complain when it takes the whole night to ACTUALLY lose. Don't you DARE rob them of their hours of pleasure defeating someone with no chance to win! Pushing casual players out is what these people want, because playing a multiplayer game is SERIOUS BUSINESS. Like that guy who declares you should leave your girlfriend if she gets in the way of your 'gaming'.

QFE

yep its a simple solution (they can use some of the code for starting the game and modify it..etc) and should be something added in a patch.

if there are ranked games, and i get ranking when people quit then it would not bother me so much - after all they quit bcos they are going to lose. quitting without consequence is ridiculous - this situation of too many quitters was bound to happen
i find it hard to even blame people for quitting when it is a no-lose situation, and you get out of playing a losing battle - it is not them that annoys me, it is the system

i am not saying FORCE PEOPLE TO PLAY
anyone who is STUPID ENOUGH to NOT READ MY POST shouldnt even be posting on here

there is a surrender button, i dont understand even why people who 'claim' to have real-life business to attend to should get out of the game - they should get a loss for leaving in the middle, and therefore the surrrender button is sufficient - or have quits tracked along with wins and losses, so it is easy to locate a quitter when hosting/joining games
as conan said, the game should then go to a vote, and players should return to the lobby to find a substitue (who would get the win if his team wins, but does not receive a loss if they do not) or continue with AI