declined surrender option

[EagleChappie 585]

I think it would be a good idea to have the option in a battle to surrender instead of exiting the battle and leaving the team with fewer players. At least more than half of the players (70% maybe? or all players of the team?) must vote for the surrender to give victory to the enemy

[Maf 32,326]

Declined

This is an example of a "crutch" solution that doesn't solve the underlying issue — why do battles end up in a situation where one team may want to surrender?

The correct solution is to implement changes that reduce the amount of such battles. This could include improving the balancing algorithm of MM (yes, I know that's pretty much a joke and never gonna happen), or implementing catch-up mechanics to all game modes, similar to what CP has. I'd never want to surrented while playing CP, because I've been in multiple games where a score of 95-0 with a seemingly certain victory for one team suddenly gets turned around to a 60-70 victory for the other team. Been on both sides of that scenario.

Another important note is player behaviour. The first thing that comes to mind is abuse of this system. With battle stars now being more important for challenge completion, I can totally see players earning the minimum score to get stars, and then voting to surrender so that they can end the battle faster. Sure, you can make it so that no stars are awarded if you vote to surrender, but better to avoid the feature altogether. On top of that, pretty sure there will be a lot of conflicts and frustrations happening in battle chats, when some players vote to surrender while others are still trying to win.

Point is, MM (allegedly) has a system where quitters are replaced with stronger players in the middle of the game, so if you don't like how the battle is going - just leave and let stronger players take your place. skill issue smh my head

[Inkling_Boy 124]

There's nothing wrong with this idea. Nobody wants to get clobbered for 15 minutes. That isn't what I call fun. I also think tanki should record how many times it is used then they can reconsider necessary ideas to balance the matchmaking system.

[Me0w_XP 523]

Let's deal with sweats who take the 7th flag and hold it in front of their base without capping it so that their team can farm kills.

[Maf 32,326]

On 4/11/2023 at 6:54 PM, Me0w_XP said:

Let's deal with sweats who take the 7th flag and hold it in front of their base without capping it so that their team can farm kills.

Been a while since I've encountered any of those. But yeah, they're annoying.

[TargetXAcquired 277]

On 4/11/2023 at 11:37 AM, Maf said:

why do battles end up in a situation where one team may want to surrender

One word-Cash.

The devs ruined this game when they introduced augments, most of which were only available for cash.

It's the amount of crap in the game that has for a large % of battles made it one sided and way to complicated.

Say whatever you want to "try" and explain the one sided scenario but it all boils down to the worse than useless MM, the abject greed of the devs who never act on player feedback that would actually enhance the game to a far superior level that would allow for way better balancing in battles.

Getting rid of a few drones because "they say" it will make the game less complicated tells you everything you want to know about the devs. They lie to players constantly and try and disguise it with a totally implausible cover story that a 3 yr old can see through. 

One sided battles is one of many huge flaws in the game, flaws the devs deliberately employ to make cash from the gullible. The many imbalances in this game could easily be rectified if it wasn't for there greed.

[PirateSpider 1,491]

We used to have a system that would end the battle early if one team is lacking in players. I'd much rather have that than this surrender feature.

[DragonKnight 416]

On 4/10/2023 at 11:54 PM, elcatalagamer said:

I think it would be a good idea to have the option in a battle to surrender instead of exiting the battle and leaving the team with fewer players. At least more than half of the players (70% maybe? or all players of the team?) must vote for the surrender to give victory to the enemy

Think the best option is to remove the "Leave Battle" feature, in that way no one can force his/her way out of an ongoing battle. 

[alkyng 3,081]

I would like if this suggestion was exist at 2020 with Hopper-Crisis combo. So when we see an enemy it would be a very grateful response for our team to surrender, not 70% but 100%. We will leave the battle for them, the greatest and most skilled Flyingmonkey-Crisis players