Effective way to reduce game remakes

Big Chungus inc·Jan 26, 2017·2 votes·283 views

Hello Riot, After 5 minutes of inactivity a game is automatically remade. Why not include a button for players, looking to join a game with their primary role, same as the role of the inactive player to avoid people waiting for queues and reduce game remakes. Here is an instance

Warwick - Jungle - Inactive at the 3 minute mark.

A certain player, waiting to join a game with a primary role jungle gets a pop-up window - Join as warwick - jungle in a 5v5 ranked game(3:40- the elapsed time of the game) Make this window available for players for 2 minutes or untill they find a game. First scenario - player joins the game, the game continues Second scenario - player doesn't join the game, the game remakes

Thank you for your consideration, Sincerely yours KickPushSwag

2 Comments

Rax ReformedJan 26, 20171 votes

It's not an awful idea, but I cant imagine ever wanting to fill in for a team that lost a player. Also what would happen to the player that never connected? What if he were in the process of reconnecting when someone took his place?

I also feel like from a design standpoint, it'd be very difficult to swap a player into the position of another player. Like if I fully understood your idea, you're saying that you would just take control of the Warwick that never connected. That just doesn't seem possible with the way the client loads people into games. Also, would you get a chance to change out summoner spells, runes, masteries, skins, ect? Or would it just load you in with what the other guy had?

Big Chungus incJan 26, 20171 votes

It would make sense for you to select runes, spells, masteries, skins in a small window, i think you could make that for about 10 to 15 seconds, as for the guy, the core of my recommendation comes from the point that 9 players shouldn't suffer because of the 10th's problems(internet, electricity, software). Also, why would you not want to fill in for a team that lost a player, most of the cases, ppl just pick their champ and then go to do some stuff and when they come back its too late.. As for the way client works, it can just display a message that a warwick player is connecting and it may pause the game for the time it takes to the player to load in to the game, Id rather wait 2 mins ingame, being a level 1 on my lane, than going back to lobby and requeue-ing.

Thanks for your feedback