Leaving Instead of Dying

In a match today with the player yolo1193 I noticed that on undu, after having used up all his cooldown abilities and about to die, he just left the game. He re entered immediately and did not have any penalty. Although this is the first time I have witnessed such, I could certainly see it becoming a problem.
Anyone else seen this?

I must admit to having done that before. I did it because I was so frustrated with something, I just left and then re-entered after I cooled down some. I always thought it did have a penalty though. I thought my ship stayed motionless and was always killed by the time I came back.

Maybe you should have messaged devs or put this somewhere obscure. Now we know about this and now I have to fight the urge to use it. Sigh.. I’ll be good.

D:

I didn’t know that, but might be better if you don’t tell the world.

If you lag out (e.g. internet dies / browser freezes) there are a few seconds between the disconnect and when the ship leaves the game (because this has happened to me, and I died). Not sure what happens if you do it intentionally.

Seems easy enough for devs to patch though (set a 5-10 second timer before ship disappears when leaving the game).

Sounds like Disputed Galaxy all over again.

But seriously, for those that are doing it or are planning to do it… DON’T! Bad enough there are too many exploits going around (MM, etc), don’t break the game any more. And you wonder why the player base are dwindling.

Yeah, this can happen, although it leaves your ships vulnerable for a while if I remember right. My internet occasionally disconnects (no fault of my own), and I’m guessing this what happens. Sometimes it results in a death, other times it doesn’t.

As long as it isn’t abused, I’m not worried about it. If it starts being a problem, well, editations will need to be made.

what happened was i was forced to quit out cuz ships started jumping around on the screen. it wasn’t on purpose or anything, even if i wanted to use the quit function that way, i wouldnt be able to pull it off.

Yeah I didn’t think you did it intentionally, but it did seem very convient at the time.