What is the purpose of autofill in a 'game' ?

option paralysis··4 votes·563 views

You play the game, because you want to play the stuff of your choosing, right ? That's the sole purpose of why you're playing league. Because you want to play the role and the champions you want to play. Autofill negates all of that. Why would you NEED to play the role you don't want to in a GAME ? That's what bothers me, autofill isn't optional, you can't turn it off. It's literally forcing you to play things you don't want to. This isn't some job where you have to do things that sometimes you don't like, this is a game where you want to enjoy yourself. Not getting forced into playing something you don't want to and most likely will end up in losing the game for yourself and others. I think I'd gladly wait in q longer, just to get a fair and balanced game, rather than low q time with unbalanced and stomp games. I really hope something will change for next season.

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Ozias of Scagnar2 votes

[{quoted}](name=tough noogies,realm=EUNE,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=I0mYQpMK,comment-id=,timestamp=2017-09-25T23:36:32.989+0000) I think I'd gladly wait in q longer, just to get a fair and balanced game, rather than low q time with unbalanced and stomp games.

you answered your own question right there... that's why we have auto fill, plus you should honestly be able to play multiple roles and have fun with each of them. Plus if you are looking at one tricking a champion, you should at the very least be able to play it in all roles.

SSrikeShadow1 votes

Wow "you should" - what a dumb thing to write. His point is that this is a game and "should" has nothing to do with it. It's you want not should. Game vs. life. Learn to read.

Sir Fuzzi1 votes

The problem is stomps don't magically disappear, though.

If it's a five minute queue and the game turns out to be a stomp, that's gonna get old fast. At least the fifty second queue isn't a chore to sit through each time. Not as much, anyway.

option paralysis2 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sir Fuzzi,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=I0mYQpMK,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2017-09-25T23:52:27.196+0000)

The problem is stomps don't magically disappear, though.

If it's a five minute queue and the game turns out to be a stomp, that's gonna get old fast. At least the fifty second queue isn't a chore to sit through each time. Not as much, anyway.

they won't, but if the matchmaking system wouldn't mix and match such a variety of mmr difference and if there was no autofill.. the chance to get a stomp game, would be far far less. I literally got demoted out of d2 to d5 cuz of autofill. autofill is a gamble in diamond.

Sir Fuzzi1 votes

The real problem is that players don't believe they have to be skilled in other positions anymore-- it used to basically be requisite of ranked. Things are changing and the game has to change with it.

It'd be nice, but autofill was a direct response to queue times as I recall, so I don't know if it's going anywhere.

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