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No chest for S- if a lobby member is punished

The Ecdysiast·3/29/2016, 4:32:08 PM·212 votes·8,656 views

As you know, if you're chat restricted or banned, you can't participate in the Hextech crafting. Unfortunately, there's a bug where your punishment extends to allies even if they're the one who got an S.

Situation: Eligible player created a lobby with a player who was punished (not eligible for chests). BOTH Players receive S- scores.

Expected outcome: Eligible player receives a chest for his OWN S-, but ineligible player does not.

Bug: Eligible player's S- is negated due to the ally in the lobby. No chest is rewarded, BUT the champion played still receives the can't-get-a-chest-again-with-this-champ border.

I can't/won't test this again to see if it always happens. Not only would it be difficult for the both of us to get S's again, but if it works I'd be down another champion to use without the reward. The risk is too high.

On a side note, I was so stoked to get Gentleman Cho'Gath as loot from a solo game, then the next three loots I got were Champions. TT-TT

89 Comments

Valexfor3/29/2016, 4:36:18 PM12 votes

Upvoting to get the post more visibility, didn't happen to me but if it's really like this then he bug is pretty serious.

TallyZrg3/29/2016, 6:16:27 PM7 votes

Good bug report. This is one of the most professional ones that I've seen come from the boards.

Urgonnalearn2day3/29/2016, 6:28:40 PM6 votes

Maybe, it's not a bug? There's been a lot of studies that say being ostracized is worse than jail. Good way to halt toxic attitudes. Your friends won't want to queue with you.

iainB853/29/2016, 5:20:08 PM5 votes

Were you queued with the punished player or did you randomly get matched with them?

Thinking about it, it shouldn't really matter. I can't imagine Riot intentionally going so far as to make previously punished players pariahs to all their friends by restricting rewards for queuing with them.

Shadragon3/29/2016, 8:27:36 PM4 votes

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this was intentional. This campaign to end toxic behavior has turned into a witch hunt, and not a particularly effective one at that.

Veruka3/29/2016, 4:59:32 PM3 votes

Same as Valexfor. Upvoting. I'm sorry this happened to you.

SolSyphon3/29/2016, 10:55:38 PM2 votes

DID YOU JUST DO SOME STEPWISE REFINEMENT!?!?

dagurr3/30/2016, 5:12:58 AM1 votes

I had that happen before never considered this as a possibility

AsphodelNext3/30/2016, 10:25:06 PM1 votes

If you can't/won't test this again, how do you know it was caused by a punished person being in your queue?

Maybe you randomly missed your chest this game, and you just happened to be queued with a punished player? Could be possible, especially if you play with them a lot.

Like, you didn't say what champion you were playing, or if you were queued for ranked or normals, but the bug could have something to do with those instead.