well... i'll get used to it ^^

what are you talking about...?
do you understand that when an antag leaves the field he makes you a favor, since your game is AUTOMATICALLY won...?

recommended raiders :

- at least one character able to save the team and cross the bridge if a valeria antag shows up. like harec or doldren.
(even if she's quick a ginebra usually won't do, not enough health. i'm not even sure an hive could cross the bridge assaulted by shakura's sphere, same for hans or pretty anyone in fact).

- and then dealer damage to apply maximum damage to boss when he is vulnerable.
snipers are pretty interesting here since they can easily shot his weak point, doing lot of damage, even when he is not vulnerable.

sorry, but i think you absolutly did not understood what i said.
i'm talking about punishing THE ANTAG when he quits makes no sense.

an antag plays alone. when he quits he bring harm to no-one except himself.
so punishing him is irrelevant.

when a raider quits he penalizes is team mates, he has to be punished.
and by the way, it was a good thing the low ranks had more guts than you have, so they made you have your blueprint.
so sad to play with low ranks hm ?

hi.

please as for ping problem, you really have to do somehing for that.
when a coward host, decide to quit becuse he doesn't even realise we have achieve 75% of the mission even if we are losing lot of lives and consequently you lose mostly because of him since you have everything to do again, you really want to find him and hang him by the balls (until these tiny things quit too, but his body).

you can have several reasons :

- first, some players chose to defend schneider by following him more than defending consoles. sometimes it could be tricky to fight him alone, trying to put aleph on him while 5 grunts are unloading there shotguns on you.

- most chose to reduce monsters, running a little everywhere. less monsters,  less chance for everyone to die (including schneider) and as soon as you see an engeneer somewhere, you go for the kill before it makes troubles.

- some consoles are pretty far away from each others and there is often one or two doors for incoming monsters near them. and maybe you don't want to be alone to face them all if a big pack comes in.

- as you don't necessarily want to be isolated next to monster entrance to face an antag.

- staying relatively close to each others give everyone the possibility to care for anyone seems in trouble.

- depending on your character and the game difficulty, you can't face more than two or three grunts at the same time without having great chance to die. some characters are not really made to defend position.
so you can tell me, "ok but if you know it is this mission, take one that CAN defend a position"
indeed. but you need to have one. characters are expensive, people are not all paying to have gold, so maybe their pool of character don't allow that, maybe they are used to play specific characters not suitable to defense, but they like to play them anyway, maybe they noticed no one in the team had weapons allowing to shoot the flower on the next stage, etc, etc...

- and finally, some just play, running around, killing things, "brainlessly", being happy.
it's still pretty usefull until there is something really more important to do, and they should do it because they are the best for it and no-one can replace them at that moment to do it, and well... they don't...
here goes the world =)

but to conclude, imo, one player defending each console is not necessarily the best thing to do depending on the team, situation, etc.

more !