Extra gold per second for the team when someone disconnects

maytheforcebwthu·Feb 7, 2015·2 votes·1,366 views

Riot seems to be focused on punishing disconnects to keep them out of the game, but the thing is just about everyone without fiber optics can disconnect once in awhile, events happen, people leave games. Not that frequent disconnects shouldn't be punished, but it would be good to give some kind of an advantage when a team has a disconnect as well.

I know that this is very difficult, because it can be abused. However, I think that extra gold per second isn't something that can easily be abused and even if it's not much, at least it's SOMETHING to make a disconnect less crippling. When multiple people disconnect, the extra gold could get higher and when they reconnect, the extra gold income stops.

Does anybody like this idea? Why or why not? What would you have done to make disconnects less crippling?

2 Comments

redniwediSFeb 7, 20152 votes

I don't actually see how this would help the 4 man team. The 5 man team will have map control and access to far more gold income because of it, along with dragon and baron. If the 4 man team is given enough passive gold income to keep up with the 5 man it will be far too easily abused with controlled disconnects. If it's low enough to avoid easy abuse it won't be a large enough amount to effect the game.

In either case if the 4 man team is winning the 5 man just has to turtle until they reach their item limits and finally pass the 4 man in strength. The only thing I think could help in this is allowing a player who has reconnected after a DC bonus gold and experience income for a short time. That might help soften the blow, but in all honesty the only thing that will truly help is fixing the problem that is causing disconnects in the first place.

maytheforcebwthuFeb 7, 20151 votes

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I don't actually see how this would help the 4 man team. The 5 man team will have map control and access to far more gold income because of it, along with dragon and baron. If the 4 man team is given enough passive gold income to keep up with the 5 man it will be far too easily abused with controlled disconnects. If it's low enough to avoid easy abuse it won't be a large enough amount to effect the game.

In either case if the 4 man team is winning the 5 man just has to turtle until they reach their item limits and finally pass the 4 man in strength. The only thing I think could help in this is allowing a player who has reconnected after a DC bonus gold and experience income for a short time. That might help soften the blow, but in all honesty the only thing that will truly help is fixing the problem that is causing disconnects in the first place.

Well, that's what I mean. Even if it's a very small bonus gold income, at least it helps a little bit, I'm not looking for complete balance in a 4v5 just something extra to help a little bit. What you've said is good too, when people reconnect and are 3 levels, 1,000+ gold behind they need help catching up(I'd say increased time depending on disconnect time). Unfortunately though, there's no way to eliminate disconnects without banning all players that don't have super reliable internet....I have 80ms most of the time, 12mbps download speed but at times the internet can go down, not often but it does happen and there's no way of telling when it will happen.