Surrender Modification

Brendy Bear··3 votes·581 views

There are many games where people are forced to play in heavily disadvantaged situations. One of those frequent situations is if someone effectively leaves the game and forces his/her teammates to fight in those situations. Let's face it, there are trolls that want to screw over teammates, and there are those who have genuine situations that call for immediate attention. The latter has happened to me before, and it should be easy for everyone to prioritize a real-life situation over a virtual situation.

What i propose is a modification to the Surrender system. The problem that I have and I'm sure most other people have is that fact one can't surrender pre-20 minutes. Most of the time, I'm not upset at the person who AFKs or is absent, because they may have a real life problem occuring. The thing that upsets me most is that I'm effectively wasting 20 minutes of my time if we have a person who has been absent since the beginning of the game. If a team feels that they can not win with teammate(s) absent, there is no reason they should have to waste their time fighting in a game that's already been lost for 20 minutes. Within that time, I would have already started a game where I could possibly make up the lost LP from the last game in a more timely manner.

My suggestion is simply this: 1 Teammate Absent (for more than 3 minutes): the Surrender time is reduced to 15 minutes. 2 or more Teammates Absent (for more than 3 minutes): the surrender time is reduced to 10 minutes.

There's no point in drawing out a game that is already significantly demoralizing and pointless for the affected team.

Please tell me what you guys think and please give me an up-vote if you agree with me!

7 Comments

disregardable1 votes

Why bother, no one would use it.

Brendy Bear1 votes

People use surrender all the time...

bad arcade kitty1 votes

4v5 has a good chance to be won, you get more exp and gold overall, especially if one can hold 1v2 lane and you have a jungler

what they actually should change it's that the games when somebody didn't connect should be disbanded and that who didnt connect should get a dodge penalty

Brendy Bear1 votes

It never hurts to actually have the option.

SmknWdl1 votes

it does because it's abused...

Miku Lv991 votes

You can surrender earlier. It's called your team AFKs and lets the other team all mid.

That aside, I think you should be able to surrender earlier. It's really dumb when there's really no chance of winning right off the bat, and you have to play the rest of it anyways.

SmknWdl1 votes

Honestly, i think the surrender feature should remain as is, if not removed. I hate the surrender feature. I won a 4v5 match the other day... midlane afk'd... we didnt flame, and despite losing heavily early game and doing terribly, we came back and won. Another game later that day... we are down by two kills, and suddenly everyone just decides to surrender. WE WERE IN A TEAMCOMP OF LATEGAME CHAMPIONS. WHAT. THE. FUCK. Ok sorry, it's just if you pick a lategame champion dont surrender 25 minutes in... it annoys the crap out of me. Surrender needs to be in the game, i know, but it's an abused feature and i think there should at least be a report button for "Wrongful Surrender" or something like that... I just can't stand it.

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