Who's smart enough to come up with a fix to the troll/afk issue?

Ash Lockheart·May 19, 2015·1 votes·368 views

Ok. So I see players saying you can't do this with out it effecting this. Ok. So then I have a challenge for any player. What would have to be done to fix the issue with players trolling/afking, and so on? You say one person's idea is good but it would be abused. So you tell us what should be done in order to fix the issue? Saying nothing can be done i know is BS and there's nothing smart about saying do nothing. I know some one out there is smart enough to come up with some thing that would work just fine. Its a computer game. and games can be adjusted and patched.

4 Comments

LarasoMay 19, 20153 votes

My idea for fixing AFKs is and always will be giving loss prevented to all other teammates and making the AFK player take the combined LP loss of his entire team. This fixes the problem by heavily dissuading players from leaving games, while preventing misuse because nobody will want to take 5x the normal LP loss.

If the player never connected to the game once, the rest of the team still gets loss prevented but the person who failed to connect to the game takes normal LP loss instead of the entire teams LP loss. This is in case the player was having unexpected issues with his client, firewall, AV, etc. that prevented him from connecting to the game.

nomeLMay 19, 20151 votes

But then what if the player who was "afk" was dc'd? Maybe his wifi shut off or something. You have to consider this

LarasoMay 19, 20152 votes

There's no way to distinguish between a legitimate DC and someone who rage quit. The only solution I can think of is that if they disconnect, but reconnect later, the LP loss gets lowered from 5x to 2.5x. Loss prevented is given to the other teammates if the total amount of time the player was disconnected overall lasted for more than 3 minutes.

GuileRavenMay 19, 20151 votes

You guys are so focused on punishing people for d/c or afking. How about we focus on why these things are so harmful to other players, and fix those, or come up ways to salvage matches that have an AFK or d/c?

I don't mind when someone disconnects early game. What I mind is that I am stuck 20 minutes in a match that I know I can't win. How about if someone is disconnected for a couple minutes in the early game; we get to call for an early surrender vote which nullifies the match?

As for late game leaves. How about, when one person quits/disconnects it offers one player on the other team to leave (and collect reward lp) to balance the match out. If a player on the other team accepts, then neither of the two disconnected players can reconnect to that match,and are free to start the next one. Rather than offering every player on the enemy team at the same time, it will shift the offer from one to the next, by order of who has the closest gold income to the first d/ced player.

I am all for strict punishment when it comes to ranked matches, but in normal games it's stupid that the game demands you have a 100% free schedule with no chance of interruptions.