Consumable idea: no frickin JIP (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Thursday, November 12, 2015, 19:14 (3394 days ago) @ Claude Errera

If Bungie were to put a No-Join-In-Progress toggle in the settings (and make Ragashingo the happiest person in the world), would there be a negative effect on matchmaking in a larger sense?

Absolutely. Games where one player dropped would instantly turn into the entire team dropping.

What I think they should do is take the matchmaking ratings of players and only join you in progress to a game where you out-rank the players in that game by a large margin. That would both make it kind of fun for the JIP player (holy crap, these guys SUCK) and for the shorthanded team (OMG, this guy's a HERO!).

And MAN would that be fun for the opposing team, who didn't have any part of the quitter, and who was (presumably) sort of skill-matched with the original team (and so would be light-years below the new guy).

Count me out of this one.

Well, the hope is that the new guy, despite being awesome, is only just good enough to make the game even again. Remember he's coming into a game down 5000 points.