Ideas

[#M|A#Wolf]

A penalty system for disconnecting players.
Don´t permit players to spawn when teams are uneven.
Benching one random dead player when this happens (uneven teams) .
!login system with passwords for players before the stats info is sent, or even before spawn.
Obviously this is for ladder servers only.
Obviously this affects greatly the quality of those servers.

1. What do you mean penalty system? Players have to d/c eventually, so you're basically saying to penalize players for not playing?
2. Not a bad idea, would be cool to see other opinions.
3. Don't like this one really, I mean, you launch the game to play the game, not to suddenly get benched by the server while playing cause teams are uneven, that'll just make new players get frustrated with the game and leave. If your second idea would be used this wouldn't be a problem since there will most likely be at least 1 benched player waiting.
4. I believe that has been implemented for the next version.

@jackrock: I've seen several players do that too, a simply 5-10 second waiting penalty for going to spectator mode would solve this.