ATM, disconnects are interesting, and something we may have to deal with.
Some people, don't have their routers set up right, or they have other stuff going on with their network, downloads etc, that can affect this as well.
So, in a sense, we could bring in a rule to say, if you get DCED during a match, that you gotta start again.
BUT, this creates a problem.
It opens up the possibility of people cheating if they're losing.
4 player example:
Player 1, after 2 rounds coming last, DC's, then comes to the forums claiming the game should be re-raced. This, despite player 2, 3 and 4 finishing the GP. So, if we had a rule in, they'd re-race, but then what if player 3 gets DCED after losing a few.....and so on, and so forth.
1v1, someones getting killed, and they decide to DC, but claim their internet dced and that was all. The ability to have "rematches" actually makes those who i'd consider sore losers, to take advantage of others if thing's don't go their way.
I won't name names, but i have already been in races with a few league members, who, if they start to get slaughtered in a race, DC. Others i've seen literally stop racing if they fall too far behind. Some will claim they're internet DCed, but the same people i've raced with, have never been DCed when they were leading, funny that, don't ya think lol?
Last year, a mate and i ran an Aussie "Table Tennis", "Madden 07" league. Some things that seperated the two leagues, and made one successful, and the other die.
Table Tennis: We had 16 players per season in a "Premier League", and 12 players in a "Reserves League. It was 3 opponents per week, over 4 weeks, plus finals. Our league ran for 4 seasons, before time wise, we had to give it up. We had some amazing finals, and by season 2, the top players were in the Premier League, while the learning players were in the reserves, but both leagues had some fantastic and even competiton, and, partly due to being able to watch opponents games, we never had a player DC or claim to have won.
Madden 07: 2 Opponents per week, 8 week season........ We had a massive 28 players in the league, which was hard enough of itself. By the end of week 1, we had already found a good 6-8 players who, the moment they started getting slaughtered, would DC, and ask for a rematch. One guy, DCed 5 times on someone else while losing, and then, when he all of a sudden was winning, didn't DC, and then he claimed the win.
Some people, despite being contacted by their opponent, wouldn't turn up to matches, and then would try to sneakily ask for a forfeit win claiming the other opponent wasn't online.
After 3 weeks of this crap, we shut down the league, despite having some great and honest players in it. In fact, the Madden League shutdown, led to a shutdown of all our leagues at the time, including PES, NBA 2K and PGR.
I don't want the same thing to happen here.
I haven't decided yet what to do about DCes, although if say, it happens BEFORE or AFTER a race, i have no issues, with players opening a new room, and finishing their races. So, for example, i'm playing Muss, and after 2 races, muss gets DCed. I would open another room, and do the "final" race that we were sposed to do. I wouldn't start the courses over from scratch.
If a player DCes while losing mid race, thats different and i'm not sure. It genuinely can happen through router resetting or internet stuffing up, but if it happens while that players getting caned, well, thats another thing entirely.