DC Bots (An idea to help the unfortunate teammates of a DC)

xredstarriddlax·8/12/2015, 1:25:33 AM·1 votes·772 views

We've all had that game... your team is either doing exceptionally well, or exceptionally poor. Then one of your teammates disconnects, be it purposeful because they were sick of losing, or the honestly lost connection and can't reconnect. In both situations losing that teammate can result in either losing a great lead or falling even further behind making a comeback near impossible. I have a possible solution that can make a DC or even multiple DC's less crippling to your team.

That is where DC bots come in! Basically this would entail bots following the normal routine of walking the DC'd player back to base, but then after giving them maybe a minute or two to reconnect before taking control of their character entirely. This does not mean that the player cannot return, but instead acts as a substitute, in order to be fair to that players teammates. Surely Riot could program bots that are as competent as the average player (they could probably even make the bots waay OP if they wanted, but that's not the goal here), and by doing that Riot can ensure that players never lose an even match up solely because one or more players could not connect to the game. Of course there would have to be some sort of protection in Ranked to keep it fair even there. Perhaps different bot skill levels based upon what tier game the bot is substituting in.

This seems like a good idea in my mind, but I would like to hear from other people, as I don't generally have too much of an issue with DC's. Maybe we could actually get a Rioters attention with this idea, and eventually get it implimented in the game.

6 Comments

Arcane Azmadi8/12/2015, 3:22:56 AM1 votes

Hate to break it to you, mate, but it won't happen for the simple reason that Riot literally do not give even 1% of a FUCK about DC's ruining games.

The game is going on 6 years old. DCs have been ruining games for that ENTIRE time. What has Riot gone? Coded champions played by DC'd players to walk back to the fountain to prevent them giving up a free kill. That is ALL. That is the absolute limit of how much Riot cares. There are SO many things they could do to make the game less horrible in this regard- they have done nothing, nor have they expressed even the slightest interest in doing anything. We're all screwed forever because Riot gives no fucks.

Jefftiffy8/12/2015, 3:24:26 AM1 votes

Except the bots almost always feed. You are better off without them (they are absolutely terrible in this game let alone HotS)