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AFK's in Ranked - Suggestion to Rito

MisterUsername·3/3/2015, 11:53:00 PM·1 votes·1,167 views

I just played 3 ranked games in a row with an afk on my team only for each one. I hate that in ranked I lose LP for someone else's problem. Right when I got to 0 LP from AFK players, I got a power outage in the middle of my game, demoting me. I hate this. I think that when someone goes AFK the rest of the team shouldn't lose any LP because of someone else. The winning team can still gain LP, but the losing team just has almost a guaranteed loss in a 4v5. Maybe the AFK player could lose double LP as well. I know that league is a team game but I don't want to get demoted and be stuck in bronze when we don't even have a full team. I just got to 0 LP from 3 different AFK's, then I had a power outage problem in my neighborhood where the power would flicker on and off. I then lost that game (because of my AFK) then got demoted. But I don't like the fact that my teammates lost LP because of me and how I lose LP from others. Rito pls, I really love your game but I think toxicity levels will drop significantly if not losing LP when there's an AFK yet still winning LP when the other team has an AFK would be implemented. Everyone would get their prize for winning and losers won't lose anything because of a problem with 1 player. The AFK player, however should still lose LP. That is all, I will continue to play league but this would improve my experience by A LOT.

  • Sincerely, (Previously S5, now B3 player) MisterUsername

10 Comments

Oddysseas3/4/2015, 12:15:26 AM1 votes

First of all, don't call riot,rito, it used to be funny when people typing fast said rito instead but doing it on purpose is stupid.

Anyways, sorry for the comment but i hate that.

Going back to the point. Afk's are sad indeed, however an afk could also happen to the enemy team, the chances are equal. I am asking you to start counting how many afk you had in your teams and how many afk in thr enemy teams during the course of a week. You will probably notice that the chances are 50-50 or something like that.

But to tell you the truth, i think you are right something needs to be done. First of all there should be reduced lp loss to the team when there are afk's also the punishment for leaving a ranked game should be more strict therefore people with bad pc, connection would be discouraged from playing ranked.

All that sounds good but i am forced to tell you this is an unfair world, you can't control everyone's life and decisions. People know that their internet might be slow but they will still join a ranked match even tho they know that they will have connection problems.

It all comes down to people respecting one another and unfortunately in our civilized world no one cares about anyone else but themselves.

UZuDGuot1A3/4/2015, 12:29:27 AM1 votes

Pretty sure afk'ers aren't the only reason you're in bronze.

SmokingPuffin3/5/2015, 2:03:32 AM1 votes

I think that when someone goes AFK the rest of the team shouldn't lose any LP because of someone else.

I think that players tend to go AFK when things aren't going well. Therefore, I tend to think that losing LP in a game where you had an AFK is probably justified in many cases.

I am prepared to add some kind of exemption in cases where a player never connects, or disconnects early in the game, before first blood. DotA 2 has this, it's called "early abandonment", and in such cases the rating system treats the game as if it never happened.

The winning team can still gain LP, but the losing team just has almost a guaranteed loss in a 4v5.

This makes everybody feel good at the cost of actually rating players for performance. More specifically, this causes rating inflation -- the average league standing of the 10 players after playing this game is higher than it was before the game started. This is an absurd result, and applied across many games can cause your rating system to lose its meaning.

I think toxicity levels will drop significantly if not losing LP when there's an AFK yet still winning LP when the other team has an AFK would be implemented.

There is a serious danger that such a policy increases toxicity on losing teams. If you know that getting a player on your team to AFK saves your LP, you might be prone to piling on the feeder and hoping to make him feel bad enough to ragequit.

t0ad53/5/2015, 2:10:02 AM1 votes

End the game and give the offenders a 5 to 10 person Lp loss. Nip that right loin the bud, mostly.