IP farming Bots on the Twisted Treeline

waderade·8/6/2015, 7:18:06 AM·2 votes·411 views

I love the gameplay on the Twisted Treeline, but unless I queue with a friend in non-ranked matchmaking, I always encounter a bot, either on my team or on the opposing team. I'm not exaggerating when I say that 100% of my solo queue 3v3 games contain at least 1 IP farming bot. (I have had many games that have had more than one.)

I enjoy the improvements to TT, (i.e. the additional tower, the changes to the alter buffs and the spider buff, etc.) but if one of my teammates is a NPC just feeding the enemy champions and essentially ruining the game before it has begun, what good is having an updated game type/map? I can only assume that countless man hours went into updating and polishing this arena and game type over the years. It looks beautiful and can be a lot of fun when you have a pre-made team. But that is not always the case.

Now I've heard the regular response to this problem from Riot. They'll say "To avoid this problem play ranked games on Twisted Treeline". That is simply not a solution. As the developer of a game your responsibility should be to take care of these issues so that all modes of play are functional and viable to use.

Undoubtedly Riot stands to lose from this problem as these accounts gain IP effortlessly, as do we TT fans lose since we have had our games ruined. It stands to benefit us all if the problem is solved. Please Riot, step up your efforts to control this problem. Add a report option for IP famers. Fans of Twisted Treeline, in the meantime be diligent in reporting these accounts every time you encounter them.

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