Mercy Surrender to Prevent AFK Losses

A Flock Of Teemo·5/15/2015, 8:26:06 PM·3 votes·758 views

It has been 6 years now and there has been a lot of discussion about leavers/afks but why has no one thought about (or implemented) a mercy surrender. How about this, a team mate leaves, disconnects, or never connects, so after 10 minutes the game is declared a leaver 5v4 and the handicapped team can surrender and get a loss prevented except for the leaver (who loses LP) unless they were duo then both players lose the lp and you would combat this problem. I have played 50 ranked games this season with gold+ players and only 68%of the games were 5v5. Just an idea I would assume be easy to implement seeing as you can leave ranked games 4 times without being banned.

7 Comments

Hinro Honato5/15/2015, 8:30:00 PM2 votes

welp we're losing someone dc.

Sid885/15/2015, 9:56:10 PM2 votes

Well, dont hate me but I played some DOTA 2. They have this interesting mechanic for AFK-ers in game. They give the afk-er some time to reconnect to the game. If the AFK-er doesn't connect in that timeframe the game announces that its 'safe to leave'. When this happens the game value turns to 0. Meaning you dont get experience or any credits (like LP or IP in LoL terms) whether or not you choose to finish the game and it applies to both teams. So you can disconnect or continue with the game while the afk-er who caused the game value to become nil gets punished. I dunno if its okay to copy that mechanic but it seems fair to everyone as the game does not count in any statistic. A major flaw in this system is that if a team does manage to win the game 4v5, its pretty safe to say that the players did much more than their part and should be honored and rewarded for great play and giving it their all, which of course, will not happen if this system is applied.

Rootworth5/15/2015, 8:44:08 PM1 votes

Duo Q's can abuse that. Duo with a smurf, if you're losing, the smurf can DC so you don't use any LP.

ZeeDrakon5/15/2015, 8:56:11 PM1 votes

Over 50% chance you wouldve lost anyway... so you'd be gifted lp ~50% of the time