Queue Time issues in Bronze/Silver (Auto-fill Related)

Bandle City·12/7/2016, 6:48:27 PM·1 votes·251 views

I've noticed an annoying trend in low elo brackets now that auto-fill has been enabled even down here and that is the rate of dodges has increased significantly. Ever since the auto-fill feature was enabled for low elo I've been experiencing up to 7-9 dodges in a row by team mates or the enemy team before I can actually play a game which has artificially increased the time it takes to queue into a game by more than double. My concern with this is that if I recall correctly auto-fill was first introduced into the higher elo as a tool to decrease the rather high queue times they were experiencing, but now that it's in low elo too it's creating an environment that is extending the average time it takes to get into a game; the exact opposite of what it was meant to achieve.

Now, I'm not going to be one of those voices calling for the complete and utter destruction of auto-fill because I do understand why it's necessary in certain divisions of League, however I don't really think it belongs in low elo where we already had queue timers under 3-5 minutes to begin with. I mean, sure, it's nice to be able to get into a queue within 1-2 minutes now but not when it means having 7 or more of those queue's dodged in row before you can actually play.

As a result of the recent increase in dodges that 1-2 minute queue timer has inadvertently turned into 10-20 minute queue timer.

I mostly just wanted to try and bring this to Riot's attention with this post as I don't think this was the result that they wanted to achieve by enabling auto-fill in all brackets of play.

On a side note, I've been occasionally getting the odd team where 2-3 of us on the team were all auto-filled (supposedly). Assuming that this is correct and people aren't just calling their off roles an auto-fill then this would seem more than just a little excessive for Bronze and Silver elo ranges.

Anyways, thank you for your time and efforts Riot, I know it can be tough to work out every little kink while simultaneously trying to keep as many people happy as possible but there are plenty of us that do appreciate your efforts even if we may question them sometimes. lol Hopefully you'll be able to consider the issues that I've outlined above however and potentially resolve the issues introduced into my elo range as a result of auto-fill.

Thanks again! :D

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