ELo Hello AFK

Damagez·10/10/2014, 2:15:02 AM·2 votes·734 views

Can something please be done about the AFK rate at lower ELo's? I have been playing a lot of ranked and I am trying to rank up but my last 8 or so games in a row someone would disconnect part way into the game. It really ruins the game experience, I tried Dota 2 and to my surprise they have a way to punish the people that afk during a game. It is called Low Priority Queue, the player is put on a 3 (or more for frequent afk) game ban from ranked games. Dota 2 also checks after the players load the game to make sure everybody is still connected before the game will start, if someone does not load it will throw you back in queue. Leaver Buster is not enough, people just don't care, If they had an immediate consequence they would think twice before quitting or sitting at fountain, any inactivity more than 3-5mins can ruin a game for everybody on the team. I keep telling myself to just learn Yi and carry games but why should I have to do that? I don't feel like working around all the afk in bronze should be part of the game, I feel like it should be reduced to an effective degree through Leaver Buster. Does anyone else agree that we could use a more effective discipline system for AFK?

P.S. I don't really want to move to Dota 2 because the game is saturated with cc, but it does feel more fair to the player taking the game more seriously.

3 Comments

Nucleophilic atk10/10/2014, 2:17:02 AM1 votes

This post is not about somebody using a bad word. Therefore, Rito will ignore it. They don't think afks are a problem in lower elos, that is why they don't do anything about it.

DeynaTaggerung10/10/2014, 3:40:51 AM1 votes

What if there was some sort of bonus to all champions who are in a 4v5. If someone officially disconnects then maybe there would be some sort of team buff that would make a 4v5 more feasible. Or perhaps buff the minions that are on the side of the 4 man squad (without increasing gold rewarded) so that they can keep pushing power in all lanes while they have the man disadvantage. The buff would of course be taken off (after an 8 second delay of course so everyone knows it's happening) if the person reconnects. This would only take effect if someone is afk for more than a minute so people who just have bad internet and are off and back on won't just give their teammates a quick buff to pick up a kill and get back in.

Trap Main10/10/2014, 3:57:55 AM

I think rage quitting or dc'ing from a game in ranked forces you to lose more LP.