random issues or a new way to grieve?

I was thinking about this earlier today after a BAF trial. It doesn't happen a lot but enough that it made me wonder.. Here is the situation.

A league forms up and after anywhere from 10 minutes to 20 or more there are 24 players ready to enter the Q and head inside. The Q menu pops up and you click yes and the countdown begins.

NOW I am not talking about the rule of one here LOL For some reason there always seems to be one guy that is AFK when you start. But every so often as the count down continues some one declines entering the Q and drops from the league. Chances are its just that forming the league took so long that now they don't have the time to commit or even that at the last second some friend came on and they left to join that buddies newly forming league.

Still you have to wonder is it possible someone out there, or more than just ONE someone, is actually joining leagues and waiting till they are in the Q to quit so they wind up one player short inside? Are there people with THAT much time on their hands? With nothing better to do than sit around for say 20 minutes just so they can quit your team as you enter the mission? And are they really that dumb that they think 23 people can't handle a BAF just as well as 24?

Now let me clarify that this thread is done very VERY VERY much tongue in cheek That means I am not REAL serious about this and am sort of joking in case you don't know what tongue in cheek means. Still I have seen stranger things in game. So I ask you is it possible we have one lone slightly stupid griever that actually thinks he has ruined our day by sitting around in the RWZ with us for 15 minutes and then quiting just before we head inside to watch Mother Mayhem's cut scene for the 90th time LOL
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I suppose it's possible some people out there think they're being really funny by making sure a BAF is one short.

But if that's the case, the league probably isn't missing much by them not being there.

On the plus side, if someone declines to enter it, it leaves room for someone using the LFG set to "join events in progress" to get in on one. I'd rather have the guy using the LFG than the guy who thought he was griefing us any day. The LFG guy wil actually try to contribute because using the LFG alone is proof that he actually wants to run the trial.

Yes it's possible. This reminds me of a RL experience with griefers. There used to be a game store near my hometown that had a network of computers for us gamers to use and there were two twits that would come in, sit next to each other, and giggle and plot how they could screw with people depending on what game they were playing.

They got angry at the gamers in the store because we quickly adopted the tactic of only teaming with each other and refused to invite them to anything. They stopped showing up shortly after that because to them it wasn't worth paying for computer time if they couldn't see people getting bent out of shape at their antics.

I think once the launch goes there is a 60 second timer, if you don't click the green button in that time you are kicked from the league and the rest go. What you are seeing may not be people hitting the red but being auto kicked because they were AFK when the launch went.

When I have run leagues I have received tells from them trying to get back in but have yet to find a way once we launch. Anyone else know a way they can rejoin?

Someone in one of my global channels once claimed they didn't get a prompt at all, the rest of the league just disappered. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there's an underreported bug preventing some people from joining trials.

I'll admit to accidentally declining a trial on the first day of i20. I had gone to Pocket D looking for a trial. The league got formed and suddenly there were these buttons on my screen. I had no idea what the buttons were or why they were there. I figured that I had accidentally clicked on something.

I just wanted to run a trial, so I clicked the red button and waited for a mission door to appear. Boy was I surprised when everyone else teleported away!

My expectation was that the trial would begin with the leader talking to a contact and a mission door appearing somewhere nearby.

the new way to grieve people is buying all the demonic blood samples. Putting one on the market and wracking it up to 60 Mill.

Thats grieving.

Otherwise...your point is grieving also. I just needed to rant

PS; "grieve" is "to feed sad". This doesn't happen very often in games; people generally play games to have fun.

The word you are looking for is "grief", which is a coopted term that, in gaming, means "doing something to screw up others' plans" (it has a wide, far-reaching application).

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