Back when I was actively playing this thing really rubbed me the wrong way. Not just in Gambit, but in any match-made activity. While forges are doable by 2 players, I'm not Esoterickk to solo them, thus if second player is not doing anything - we're failing the forge. Strikes may be the only exception that are doable solo, but in Gambit (which is one of my favourite activities, so colour me biased), having a static player is worse than not having a full roster. Because if you shorthanded, you have a chance of newcomer. When you have full roster with 1 player standing on spawn doing nothing, emoting, walking in place and shooting into nowhere - it's much worse. Having player who occupies the spawn with "get off my lawn" attitude, killing invaders trying to kill him is slightly better, but still, not the best. I'm not confusing this with pre-Prime "sentinels" who stayed behind near bank and was shooting from there using long range weaponry - this is a totally different case. And thing I don't understand is when same player played previous match against you and was best in his team, yet this time he does nothing. Only to start playing next normally. I'd understood need for latrine, but why you emoting then? Wireless keyboard, trained pet to press the button? Why not to warn team you have a nature call and go AFK? So difficult to type "I'm on shitter/taking a leak, brb"? The only solution I see is to remove participation rewards whatsoever. Not just play match, but play it actively. In Gambit it's not necessarily to haul a whole lotta motes - there is not enough of them, but some activity counter/tracker would solve the problem. I understand there are bad players who may be afraid they won't earn enough activity statistics, but when it comes to Crucible - I'm one of them, my k/d 0.3, I doubt anyone is worse, I may well be [b][i]the [/i][/b]worst regular Crucible player ever. Yet I still manage to earn some "defeats", zones capture/defends, so even if I am worst among both teams, I still have some stat accumulated. And bungee are not that helpless to not being able to track real idlers from just us, bad players. :)