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Fixing Ranked AFK aggravation

Vaμlt ßreaker··1 votes·613 views

It's season 8. League is not new. The dev team is probably one of the best around. Why are we not fixing this?

I see so many possible solutions:

  1. Leaverbuster already detects AFK behaviour. Why not use that to mitigate LP losses for teammates affected by this?
  2. If afk for X amount of time, you get kicked and somebody else (a 6th player that is in queue and plays same champ) has the chance to take over for you
  3. Ranked afk incurrs severe penalties. 50+minute low priority queues, division drops, being placed into significantly lower elo games. options abound. continued afk could even result in ranked suspensions for X number of games.

I think it is fair, as someone who is affected by this nonsense (im hoping its isolated to lower elos) that I ask for an explanation as to why RIOT has decided that, unless My team is so much better than the other that we can win a 4 v 5, we should lose LP... The whole point of the MMR/Elo/whatever it is called now system is to ensure that players were matched as closely as possible in games... this issue is becoming more and more ridiculous as people churn more and more bots out to troll games for god knows what reason.

Heck even some kinda reCaptcha on login may help some.

Rant Over. Cheers, Vi

2 Comments

MasterDClone2 votes

Your suggestions are so fucking excessive and extreme if someone were to afk, you have to realize that there are elements that people don't have any control over, just last week my power went out mid-game due to a storm, and i lost my lp and got low priority but you saying that i should have gotten demoted and wait 50+min per game before starting, i can finish 3 games in that time. Of course an afk isn't fun but the current system works well enough that keeps most people in game , but it happens, life happens and an increased punishment will not solve anything.

Vaμlt ßreaker1 votes

I understand stuff happens out of our control.I get it it happens to me too. However, when someone says "im going afk if i dont get a gank in 2 mins" that suggests that it is an intentional decision. On top of that I know that riot can track patterns of afk behavior. I am suggesting the punishment scale as the occurence of this activity does.

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