Last night my team (not quite 6 people) played against another team who had a nice little tactic guaranteeing a win. One of their players was level 65 or so and on two of the three games got a total of 2 kills and 52 deaths. But on the second game he had something like 15 kills and 7 deaths. I call this strategy the ATM strategy. If you can't beat someone legitimately, get a friend on the enemy team and farm him for kills. This works nicely with the current setup that splits the team when one of your party is the host. This is perhaps the lowest form of trickery I've ever encountered while playing Monday Night Combat and it shows the need for a kick option. I am legitimately 99 (and if you knew my tag you could look me up on the leaderboards) but I worry that I might get kicked out of games for being 99 if everyone else were a much lower level. Playing with a full party is so problematic in that games start with 6 people. We can go into a room only to face ourselves (actually we promptly leave). How do you fairly implement a kick feature?
Have a server setup like in TF2 where a person that created the lobby can kick people. Otherwise, there isn't any way to do such a thing. If there was, a lot of people would be kicked. Though sometimes I wish it were there just to get rid of glitchers.
Well the only fair way I know of is a vote to kick option only for people on the same team (like Left for Dead does). This way if someone is not playing in the spirit of the game (AFK, farming kills for other team, etc) then his own teammates can vote to kick him. It would be unacceptable to let the other team be able to vote to kick for obvious reasons of trying to kick the other teams best players.
I've seen this happen before too, but not only did this Support let his friend kill him some fifty times, when the moneyball on the Support's team (And mine -.-) went down, he just spammed Airstrikes near his own ball. I don't know if this works in every arena, but that's just ignorant to do, and actually does cause it damage. Afterwards, the two chuckleheads were having a gigglefit about it in the game lobby while we were set up for Steel Peel Arena. I swear, when I invent that device that punches people in the throat through the internet, I'm gonna make trillions.
With the cleverly, convenient Portal Device (Valve) I may counter your invention with the wise engineering of Black Mesa. (That was a joke, haha!) I meant Apperture Science. I would create a portal either on my own monitor or face and create the matching portal on your monitor; Therefore, reverse engineering your invention to use it against you. Good day sir.
You could just implement Shadowrun's system where a vote is called and players vote over the offender and the person who called the vote. If it isn't unanimous, a second vote can be called and the player with the most votes must be kicked.
I've noticed that most of the people using the Shadowrun vote system were trying to abuse the system in order to remove the best player on the enemy team. Every now and then there was a team killer, but thankfully there is no friendly fire in MNC. This is why I think it would be interesting if there was a "don't let that guy be on my team feature". If everyone says I don't want that guy on my team the person is removed from the room. But no system is going to be perfect.
