Dishonorable Combatant System
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Dishonor is a system of automatically punishing players that exhibit poor behavior in game types that have randomly formed teams:
- Random Arenas
- Alliance Battles
- Competitive Missions
- Rollerbeetle Racing, only available during special events (for premature exit only)
[edit] Dishonor point acquisition
An account may be given dishonor points for leaving a PvP match prematurely, for leeching experience or faction, or for falsely reporting teammates for leeching.
- Players who leave a PvP match prematurely will receive 5 dishonor points. Resigning counts as premature exit in Alliance Battles and Rollerbeetle Racing.
- A player can be forced to resign due to excessively long load times, which can be caused by lag, or by the player being required to download game content before entering the arena.
- Repeatedly quitting a match before the automatic return to outpost, even if all teammates are dead, will result in Dishonorable Status being bestowed.
- If a player is reported for leeching, that player will receive 2 dishonor points for each report against them.
- Players who report a team member for leeching without at least a third of their team also reporting that player will also receive 2 dishonor points. This is to prevent grief-reporting, but also makes it possible to get Dishonorable Status for, essentially, doing the right thing, if your compatriots are apathetic.
- Currently this is bugged as even if a third of your team report someone for leeching you still gain dishonor points.
- If at least half of your team reports this player, a further penalty will be applied preventing any faction or XP gain in the match.
- There is a bug where standing still can award dishonor points, this can effect people who aren't leeching such as bonders at fort aspenwood.
[edit] Dishonor effects
Any character on an account that has accumulated 10 or more dishonor points is given the Dishonorable status, which is displayed as an effect icon in the effects monitor. While affected by this status, no characters present on that account may enter any PvP missions, even though the behavior the effect is intended to punish is irrelevant in some gametypes.
- The Dishonorable status remains in effect for 1 minute for each accumulated dishonor point. This status cannot be removed by logging out or changing characters.
- When the duration of the Dishonorable status has expired, characters on that account may once again join PvP missions.
Dishonor points will remain on the player's account for a total of 60 minutes. If further dishonor points are acquired during this period, that account is once again given the Dishonorable status, though for a longer period of time due to the accumulation of points.
- To clear dishonor points from an account, a player must go 60 minutes without accumulating any new dishonor points.
[edit] Trivia
- The Dishonorable Combatant System and Dishonorable effect were added to the game on September 27, 2007.
- The May 14, 2009 update adjusted the amount of dishonor points given out by the Dishonorable Combatant System. However, the exact adjustment is currently unknown.
