Early Leaving Players - Revision history

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 == Consequences ==
-[[Unsynchronized Game Sessions]] can occur as a consequence of [[Early Leaving Players]]. As mentioned above, encouraging or supporting [[Early Leaving Players]] is likely to cause the presence of [[Early Elimination]] and disrupt [[Player Balance]], especially if the leaving player has the possibility of being a [[Kingmaker]] through his or her last game actions and chooses to use this power.
+[[Unsynchronized Game Sessions]] can occur as a consequence of [[Early Leaving Players]]. As mentioned above, encouraging or supporting [[Early Leaving Players]] is likely to cause the presence of [[Early Elimination]] and disrupt [[Player Balance|Player]] or [[Team Balance]], especially if the leaving player has the possibility of being a [[Kingmaker]] through his or her last game actions and chooses to use this power.
 == Relations ==
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 [[Player Balance]],
 [[Predetermined Story Structures]],
-[[Proxy Players]]
+[[Proxy Players]],
 == History ==

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 == Using the pattern ==
-[[Early Leaving Players]] can occur in any [[Multiplayer Games|Multiplayer Game]] but is more or less unavoidable in [[Multiplayer Games]] that are [[Unwinnable Games|Unwinnable]]. While potentially problematic in any game unless designed to handle it, the problems become even more pronounced in games with [[Teams]] or [[TvT]] gameplay since the reliance on other players are greater in these cases. They can occur in any game through [[Surrendering]] unless the game design is intended to be able to ended at any time with satisfaction or is intended to support [[Drop-In/Drop-Out]] gameplay; supporting a [[Possibility of Graceful Surrender]] can be seen as a middle way in this regard. Since players may be aware of who is in the lead in [[Endgame]] phases it is more likely that these need to deal with [[Early Leaving Players]] than other phases (even if "early" become a relative term for [[Endgame]] phases).
+[[Early Leaving Players]] can occur in any [[Multiplayer Games|Multiplayer Game]] but are much more likely in [[Multiplayer Games]] that are [[Unwinnable Games|Unwinnable]] or where players perceive they have [[Unwinnable Game States]]. While potentially problematic in any game unless designed to handle it, the problems become even more pronounced in games with [[Teams]] or [[TvT]] gameplay since the reliance on other players are greater in these cases. They can occur in any game through [[Surrendering]] unless the game design is intended to be able to ended at any time with satisfaction or is intended to support [[Drop-In/Drop-Out]] gameplay; supporting a [[Possibility of Graceful Surrender]] can be seen as a middle way in this regard. Since players may be aware of who is in the lead in [[Endgame]] phases it is more likely that these need to deal with [[Early Leaving Players]] than other phases (even if "early" become a relative term for [[Endgame]] phases).
 Designing for [[Early Leaving Players]] is most often a case of trying to minimize negative effects associated with this, e.g. disrupted [[Player Balance]]. Many of the issues which can be seen as problematic with [[Early Leaving Players]] also occur in games that have [[Early Elimination]], and can be handled similarly. Giving players the [[Possibility of Graceful Surrender]] make the act of leaving the game a gameplay action but is typically only an option in two-player games like [[Chess]] or [[Go]]; in other cases it may simply be a self-inflicted [[Early Elimination]]. [[Private Game Spaces]] make the effects of [[Early Leaving Players]] non-problematic but instead limit the ways of players to affect each other through the game system. [[Proxy Players]] can remove the pattern altogether by instantly replacing the lost player with a new; this can be done either on a player or [[Agents|Agent]] level and in the latter case may not even be noticed by other players (see Linderoth ''et al.'' 2014<ref name="l4d2"/> for an example of this in [[L4D2]]).
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 [[Surrendering]]
-[[Unwinnable Games]] together with [[Multiplayer Games]]
+[[Multiplayer Games]] together with [[Unwinnable Game States]] or [[Unwinnable Games]]
 === Can Be Modulated By ===

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 === Can Modulate ===
 [[Endgame]],
 [[Teams]],
 [[TvT]]

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 === Can Modulate ===
 [[Endgame]],
 [[Teams]],
 [[TvT]]

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 == Using the pattern ==
-[[Early Leaving Players]] can occur in any [[Multiplayer Games|Multiplayer Game]] but is more or less unavoidable in [[Multiplayer Games]] that are [[Unwinnable Games|Unwinnable]]. They can occur in any game through [[Surrendering]] unless the game design is intended to be able to ended at any time with satisfaction or is intended to support [[Drop-In/Drop-Out]] gameplay; supporting a [[Possibility of Graceful Surrender]] can be seen as a middle way in this regard. Since players may be aware of who is in the lead in [[Endgame]] phases it is more likely that these need to deal with [[Early Leaving Players]] than other phases (even if "early" become a relative term for [[Endgame]] phases).
+[[Early Leaving Players]] can occur in any [[Multiplayer Games|Multiplayer Game]] but is more or less unavoidable in [[Multiplayer Games]] that are [[Unwinnable Games|Unwinnable]]. While potentially problematic in any game unless designed to handle it, the problems become even more pronounced in games with [[Teams]] or [[TvT]] gameplay since the reliance on other players are greater in these cases. They can occur in any game through [[Surrendering]] unless the game design is intended to be able to ended at any time with satisfaction or is intended to support [[Drop-In/Drop-Out]] gameplay; supporting a [[Possibility of Graceful Surrender]] can be seen as a middle way in this regard. Since players may be aware of who is in the lead in [[Endgame]] phases it is more likely that these need to deal with [[Early Leaving Players]] than other phases (even if "early" become a relative term for [[Endgame]] phases).
 Designing for [[Early Leaving Players]] is most often a case of trying to minimize negative effects associated with this, e.g. disrupted [[Player Balance]]. Many of the issues which can be seen as problematic with [[Early Leaving Players]] also occur in games that have [[Early Elimination]], and can be handled similarly. Giving players the [[Possibility of Graceful Surrender]] make the act of leaving the game a gameplay action but is typically only an option in two-player games like [[Chess]] or [[Go]]; in other cases it may simply be a self-inflicted [[Early Elimination]]. [[Private Game Spaces]] make the effects of [[Early Leaving Players]] non-problematic but instead limit the ways of players to affect each other through the game system. [[Proxy Players]] can remove the pattern altogether by instantly replacing the lost player with a new; this can be done either on a player or [[Agents|Agent]] level and in the latter case may not even be noticed by other players (see Linderoth ''et al.'' 2014<ref name="l4d2"/> for an example of this in [[L4D2]]).
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 === Can Modulate ===
-[[Endgame]]
+[[Endgame]],
 === Can Be Instantiated By ===