I Just got a -20% xp penalty for 2 matches, not for leaving, but for a match that disconnected, literally guys WTF. You need to get rid of that sh*t.
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We know lmao, shit is fucked, but what can we say, we all pointed that out before it was added, and it got added anyway.
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I started a game tonight and literally seconds after I clicked start and just started seeing the clouds and sky scene meaning they located a game, I lost power. About three hours later when the power came back and I logged back in and played a game, as soon as that game ended I got my penalty notice. 
To be honest, I don’t give a shit at this point, I have everything maxed out and my tech tree’s are as done as they are ever going to be for me, so, let those who think this was the greatest thing since sliced bread have their moment, but from what I can see, it didn’t change the game much, I’m still seeing deserters.
So, this is the second time I have started a game but not played a second of that game, yet got penalized because I live in a country with a crappy power grid. Classic.
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I think it’s one of the worst things the devs took into account… They don’t fix the game, there’s constant lag, the games are incredibly bad, and they give you penalties xD
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People keep leaving because the penalty is a joke. The dev know that penalizing more would be a terrorist attack.
20% doesn’t affect anything, less if you already have the complete tree (something that 80-90% of those who play have) and to top off the cards, the “any army” and if you have premium is cancel for completely xD
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I actually want official numbers from the devs themselves on what the player retention is. It’s important for both us and the devs, so we know whether the game is dying, and whether to put our money into it. I’m currently grinding BR IV on all factions, and I haven’t spent a dime (and probably won’t, unless they reevaluate premiums and the game improves dramatically).
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Know whats even worse? winning a game, even being top 1, and yet still being penalized XD
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Yeah, it’s just a slap on the wrist and really only effects newer players who are low on their tech tree’s. They can impose a 100% penalty for a week for all I care, and it still doesn’t effect me as I have really nothing left to build. I play for fun, that is the one and only reason/ However, it is kind of a kick i the dick to the people who are NOT DESERTING on purpose, yet get treated the same as those who do.
Another funny thing about this game is that if you join a custom match, and the moment you spawn your first dude and get the message, “We’ve taken too many casualties, we lost this battle”, and you literally didn’t play one second of the match, you still get credited for a loss on your win/loss percentage. This happened to me once, and once I spawned at the tail end of an ass kicking playing about 45 seconds, yet got another loss for it. Both would have been good candidates for desertion, however, I would have only had the chance to desert once in those two circumstances. Now, I will only play my own custom matches so I know exactly when I am starting.
So with Gaijin, it’s just amateur hour with this game at times.
Honestly, If you want to invest, you dont need premium squads, I 100% recommend only getting the year of premium time while its on sale, you can easily grind out all 4 tech trees in a year, even assuming like me you only play 1 match every couple days atm.
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I’m thinking a better investment might be just get extra squad slots on sale. At full price, it would cost me 2,000 gold (or around $30) to get an extra squad slot. That’s still less than one squad full price. No recurring payments, no features lost once I no longer decide to buy it. I just keep the slots for eternity.
And if I get them on sale (which I probably will), there’s a chance I can buy 2 slots for each faction without spending more than a single squad anyway.
Yeah I just had that, got disconnected again and another penalty, this is so retarded.
I don’t even think the developers have a way of knowing what the cause of a disconnect is. I’m willing to bet that they just made it a catch-all feature where there is no ability to see whether or not it was manual or because of a connection issue because they are lazy and don’t give a shit about people getting caught in the middle
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I don’t think they are lazy, they just have a lot to do with the manpower avaliable and they fkd up.