leave buster needs more teeth

siilentdeath··1 votes·541 views

leave buster was introduced to make people thin twice about going "AFK" mid game. when i had placement matches this season 3 of my 4 losses came due an afk or leaver on my team. leave buster dose not sway players away from afk as they intended. having bans from play on your 1st offense might work. make it a 24 hour ban from ranked at 1st. if the player AFKS due to hardware issues then they have a day to figure why there pc decided to have issues. then they get to come back. people play this game on internet powered by baked potatos and it ruins games. im not an elitest person with issues. i just dont like to lose games because its 4 v 5. make the bans escalate based on offenses. if a player keeps going afk in ranked then ban them from ranked play. i have had nights were the same guy is in 2-3 of the same games im in. rather it be on my team or the enemy team and they afk. this causes a loss. yet the player was allowed to ruin 3 games in one night as opposed to just 1. any more ideas out there? i know riot needs help and as the player base we need to tell them how to improve there system. if u afk in a game because of windows updates or your lap top dying and u cost your team a game then you deserve a 24 hour ban from ranked based on sheer lack of foresight.

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wolfax1 votes

This is asinine, a 24 hour ban for one offense would be an amazing way to kill the game. I understand that you're unhappy with an afk on your team, but single offenses are not ban worthy. Please go create your own game and implement this and watch it die.

siilentdeath1 votes

did you not see the "from ranked only" part. did u have an idea that would improve the "leave busters" intended purpose? id like to here your ideas on how to better the current "leave buster" system.

wolfax1 votes

Maybe slightly reduce the number of offenses needed to receive a punishment, but nothing as draconian as one day bans for one offense.

Chickensuit01 votes

Yet, it will take you 12 more years to master the use of basic communication principles in the English language.

And are the afk players not being punished by losing LP/ being placed in a lower division?

when i had placement matches this season 3 of my 4 losses came due an afk or leaver on my team.

If 3 of the 10 games in your placements are "lost" due to an afk player, you have a 70% chance of control over the outcome of your game. Compare this to your fantasy "afk artist" who decides to leave every single game: he or she has a 0% chance of controlling the outcome of their game.

leave buster dose not sway players away from afk as they intended.

Do you have proof of this, or just a 10-game circumstantial evidence? You may have just been unfortunate in this regard. Furthermore, the pain of going afk must not be an emotion you have felt before, as to disconnect from a game and not perform to one's best is something that will irk many players of this game, regardless of what queue they are playing. Just as you do not particularly like having a disconnection on your team, the player that does disconnect isn't grinning and laughing in their mother's cellar going "One twelvie down, four more to go for the day." You need to trust that every other player, especially those playing ranked, has the same ambition as you, and is not actively trying to make your life a living nightmare.

i have had nights were the same guy is in 2-3 of the same games im in. rather it be on my team or the enemy team and they afk. this causes a loss. yet the player was allowed to ruin 3 games in one night as opposed to just 1.

Did you mean that "I have had a night..."? If they are truly going afk for three games in a row, it must surely be their conscious decision to enter these games with this prior knowledge. They will not attempt to fix their problem, for themselves or their potential teams. How does a ban for any amount of time fix this? Will they not just return to their previous behaviours because they were stopped for playing for a period of time? Does removing the right to have food necessarily remove the revulsion caused by badly cooked food? If you cannot believe that every player is a keen, dedicated player like you think you are, then you must then turn to the belief that every player just wants to make every other player's life hell. But this of course, would be extended to you, as we could apply this argument in anyone else's position. But this is an inherent contradiction - or so you believe...

i know riot needs help and as the player base we need to ~~tell them how ~~ suggest ways to improve there system. if u afk in a game because of windows updates or your lap top dying and u cost your team a game then you deserve a 24 hour ban from ranked based on sheer lack of foresight.

Leaverbuster is going through development. As Wolfax has mentioned, rejecting a player because of their actions in one game is a ridiculous and costly way of developing a game community. Behaviours are not the same as events. I believe this is core to your rant.

siilentdeath1 votes

i played almost 500 games last season. i had an afk/leaver in 90 of those games. i tracked a few other stats as well. that is 18% of my game were lost in 4 v 5 situations. that is a high % and i would like to see riots statistics for the NA server on repeat offenders for going afk beyond the 1st offense

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