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Why penalize ppl when they dont dc?

wasing the was·10/22/2014, 4:29:45 AM·1 votes·930 views

So the past few months have been pretty bad for the servers. I dont blame riot for it coz i know for a fact that there are jerks who like to ass around ddos-ing the severs for fun. But I am not here for that.

I am here to propose a change in the LP when a team member disconnects. Why do the 4 players get a deduction of LP similar a team who has lost without any dc. Previous game I had my adc dc at 5 minutes (he just kinda stood, guessing he lagged out). I have seen that a dozen of times; but this game we were actually ahead in kills for the first ~21 minutes (as 4v5 mind you) but we were behind in objectives and they literally had a free lane to farm up. We were outnumbered and clearly we would have one if that Corki would have returned.

In the end we lost the game because we were down by a high dps dealer. (BTW that corki did not even attempt to reconnect through out that game).

The system game me -16 lp for that loss. Typically i get anywhere from 13-18 lp loss. Why does the system do so? Can it not reduce the LP loss by 50% if one of the team mates dc's for more than 10 or 15 minutes? Or would it not be better if the handicapped team were given some in game buff (something like the item cost reduced (does not have to be that, that was just an example)) to compensate for a loss of a person? Heck i would be even okay if they just toss in a AI champion into the rift (someone like Dr. Mundo who is not mechanically heavy and wont influence the game a lot if the team is losing anyways).

This might not solve problems with ppl dc'ing in late game and then lossing the game but it would still help a big chunk of community experiencing this issue.

This DC'ing issue has been going on for quite some time and riot ought to do something about the ingame experience if they are not immediately able to deal with the server issue OR they should cushion the post game blow by reducing the LP loss.

PS: for people who dont believe we were ahead in kills here is the link for that game history. Notice i m not saying that we were ahead in gold. Infact we were behind in dragons and minions (jinx was farming for free). Game History

I do appreciate you time and feedback. Thank you.

4 Comments

LYzyZLYQws10/22/2014, 5:06:55 AM2 votes

Because Riot does not care - They only care about Pro teams and Tournaments because they - unlike everyone else - makes them a boatload of MONEY riot is just a company so don't expect them to care about the players

darkdill10/22/2014, 5:27:00 AM1 votes

The system can't tell the difference between a disconnect and a leave, or rather some players could exploit that by plug-pulling to "disconnect". As such, if your team was badly losing, you could tell a teammate to plug-pull to reduce your LP loss.

This is how Riot views it.