if they where doing it why would they leave

I had this happen where I was crushing my opponent... he said gg, stayed in the game, and did something that caused painful amounts of lag for about 15 minutes.  I'd imagine this would be pretty easy for most people to pull off if they wanted to try to ruin the experience.

Holy cow that's terrible.

That settles it.  We need a kickvote.

Damnit, why'd you have to say something sensible before I got the chance to?

Who cares if, in this instance, it was a mistake or not?

Seems pretty clearcut to me: if someone is going to lose or just wants to be an asshat, they can grief everyone by throttling their connection or BT'ing, slowing the game to a halt.  The only thing we can do about it is quit (yielding the win) or stick it out (producing a painful experience for all, particularly the victors) and there is nothing we can do to stop them (right?).

I wouldn't immediatly assume this was done intentionally by the other player. As others have stated this game requires a lot of bandwidth. He could have genuinely been spiking and when those players dropped it was enough of a reduction in bandwidth to reduce the spikes. It happens all the time.

but when the guy starts laughing about it after my team quits? it just screams griefing.

Write down his name.  Never play with him again.  Simple.

or find an actual solution to the problem, since in 2 of the 3 game modes a pad of paper means squat to the matchmaking system.

In-game banlists would be good (so the matchmaking gives a crap about who you don't like), but I'm not sure it's helping an already-small community if everyone just bans each other.  Seriously, when devs get a chance, just fix the problem.

Or he opened enough torrents to lag down a full server and then walked away.  I know if I wanted to grief a group of people I wouldn't induce a lagfest and keep playing; it'd be just as frustrating for me to play with the lag.  When people dropped it brought the bandwidth reqs down to something manageable.  Griefers can easily open more torrents to make up for the bandwidth they are reclaiming as the lag pushes people out.

Just downloading doesn't really max out your bandwidth too effectively because of the way TCP shares connections.  Bittorrenting is a much more effective way of capping out your bandwidth limitations since all the connections it spawns does a better job of suffocating more well-behaved internet applications from getting any bandwidth.

with bitorrent (well, any p2p protocol in fact), you can easily kill your upload, and i think that is the way to go if you to be a major league asshole and create a lagfest. If that kind of behavior becomes too common, the devs have to come up with a way to kick the extreme laggers.

And if there was a way to report effectively that kind of thing, it would also be usefull. It is just cheating so banning those that do that seems to be the solution.

maybe your assuming it was done on purpose did he say he was doing it with that intention?

your realize demigod is p2p and his connection may not handle 3v3 well.  So when 2 of 6 drop and only 4 connections are left something his connection can manage then the spikes go away.

happens with me and 4v4.  I wish they did dedicated servers but eh live and learn.  I'll add that to the things I look for before I buy a game.

I just lost a little faith in the human race by reading this thread. Didnt you guys ever think of the fact that i may have been the ops own team mate that cause the high ping? its the most obvious reason since the lag stopped when he left?