Maybe you are already aware of this but there are some players that cheat in order to reach higher reputation levels plus iron collection by joining started matches.
I have detected in the time I have been playing players with high rep lvl that join my group in the middle of a fight and they leave once it is completed, and later I find them again joining and quitting. It is not the usual behavior of players that join a group and stay in the same for several matches.
They do this because the reputation and iron rewards are the same for a player that played the whole match and for the player that joined in the middle or it.
This need to be fixed, I see completely fair that if a joined a match in the middle I will receive less rewards than the others that played the whole fight.
I would suggest to cut in half the rewards of rep and iron for players that join in the middle, or if you can calculate the rewards according to the played time it would be even better (for example, if the match lasted 3 minutes and I joined at minute 1 and played only 2 minutes then I would get only 66 percent of rewards)
Not asking to ban these cheaters, But at least fix this reward system to force them to play fair from now on
Regards
You can't actually choose to join a match midway. From what I've read on this forum and reddit, nobody likes it. There are many reasons people leave at the end of a match. Hell, in my region you have to look for another match every single friggin time since the introduction of min 3v3( they didn't even extend the time??? too hard?????) Multiple matches in a row are a thing of the past. If you have 1 or 2 people in your team making it impossible to win,you have to leave due to NO TEAM SHUFFLE. Unless you're a masochist and don't like to have fun playing computer games. I honestly don't think their cheating. They're probably just sick of halfway hopeless matches. I know I am. And they're probably trying to leave the lobby,but for some reason if you try and leave a lobby legitimately, it makes that lobby a priority for the next search. Doesn't make sense,I know,but a lot of decisions the devs make doesn't make sense.They're not the sharpest tools in the shed. It won't be fixed. Best bet,restart the game. Better bet,play a game that works properly and is fun.