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No IP for bot games...

NuckaChucka·12/6/2014, 5:23:58 PM·20 votes·2,991 views

I know you guys changed the IP for bot games a while back. It really kinda sucks. When I play this game I just play bots and try out random builds on random champions. I have fun in trying different combinations. I have played probably 50 bot games. 50+ minutes each. I really want to get some champs I don't have. But I don't get any IP for the games I play. It leaves me with the only option of playing normals and pissing people off with my random (troll) builds. This will more than likely end up ruining the game for everyone and me getting a ban. I really think you guys should return the IP for bot games. Even if its cut in half or what ever it was. It would still be better than ZERO IP when I play this game.

Please take it into consideration. Thanks.

Edit: And when I say Bot Games I'm referring to playing custom games with 9 bots. Not the ones with 5 humans and 5 bots. I don't want to ruin anyones game. So I mess around with all bots.

18 Comments

Qoslaw12/6/2014, 8:45:41 PM8 votes

That and low level people learning the game who start out in bots can't buy any new champs or even runes (once they hit level 30 but still are new to the game) which means they can't do game modes that involve 16 champions (excluding free week and ranked). They are just stuck playing random champions and not specifically learning to do well with said champion because it disappears the next week.

Junkο12/6/2014, 10:01:10 PM7 votes

They made it not give IP to reduce the amount of bots that farm ip/exp.

Which just made them move to pvp...

MrBuffington12/6/2014, 7:33:46 PM3 votes

Yea, I get tripped up about this too; I play a lot of bot games just to try out champions and strategies/builds because

queue times are awesome
much more consistent environment; even if you get trolls or afks on your team, it doesn't matter. It's easier to more objectively test things

After first win bonus though, it becomes pretty time inefficient to play, even normal games; I'd rather just go online and learn more from watching VoDs or reading. If I need to practice some mechanical things I'll just go into a custom for 10 minutes and just work it out; i'm not really losing IP since bot games give next to nothing and i'm not wasting time in a normal trying to practice something.

NuckaChucka12/7/2014, 12:58:09 AM2 votes

And when I say Bot Games I'm referring to playing custom games with 9 bots. Not the ones with 5 humans and 5 bots. I don't want to ruin anyones game. So I mess around with all bots.

NuckaChucka12/10/2014, 12:36:36 AM1 votes

Well, I don't really need to learn. I watch pros play the game more than I play it myself lol. I use to play with my buddy adc/support bot lone. But he had a baby and now doesn't have much time to play games anymore. We use to always try new combos bottom. But without him to play with the game became stale following the meta all the time. People would get pissed if we tried new stuff that wasn't meta. Even if we would win lane and control their jungle teamates would still throw on purpose because we weren't meta. Which is really what drove me to play bots. Quinn/Oriana, "Bot lane trolls gg". Ashe/Lux, "Bot lane trolls gg". Quinn/Teemo, (Double Blind) "Bot lane trolls gg". When In fact those are pretty potent combos. I guess it was more or less the people that ruined the game for me. So, I got rid of the people :/ /rant

Anyways, I'll add you and maybe we can play a few games. :P

peeleebee12/6/2014, 10:54:42 PM1 votes

Why do you play bots in the first place. It is used for new players to learn the game, or for people about level 15 to try out a new champ. Ik for a fact you are level 20+ since you get less ip from bots if you are level 20+. And if you are level 30 you should be doing ranked, not normals. I have the bad habit of doing normals only, but you still shouldn't be doing bots. Even if it is first time champ. And if you do troll builds, just stop it ruins people game. Follow the meta, don't troll, and play normal/ranked.

Flemman12/6/2014, 11:44:09 PM1 votes

well, bot game give ip, not as much as pvp game but they do.

In one weak you can buy 2 lower price champ.

For bigger champ, well, with only vs ia it's 42 day but it's if you only play that (you can still play normal game non off meta if you are afraid of reaction from time to time to speed the ip grind)

They can't gave a lot of ip vs ia for the simple reason it's free win (you lose only if you are new to the league or the server lag as hell and dc nearly all the team)

NuckaChucka12/8/2014, 1:52:03 AM1 votes

Mr. Potato, You sir have nailed it. I couldn't have said it better myself.