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Riot, can you please implement a version of DOTA's leaving system?

gotta love lamp··9 votes·1,185 views

Now i don't know exactly what it's called, but there's this really amazing feature DOTA has where if someone on your team leaves or disconnects, and they're gone for a length of time (i think it's like 5 minutes), then everyone in the game can leave without any penalty. Seriously... why don't we have this!?!!? I don't see why it couldn't be done. Imagine all the time that could be saved and all the rage and toxicity that could be prevented if we could just leave with no penalty when theres either the unfortunate internet crash, or the leaver who quits and costs everyone the game. Especially in ranked! a 4v5 is a death sentence and it's really unfair to everyone on that team who has to suffer losing lp, losing promos, wasting time, and getting extremely pissed off because of one ass who trolls and quits.

Maybe it could even be taken a step further, and void the game with the jackass who stands at base afk but doesnt actually leave. Maybe make a system to detect someone sitting on base doing nothing too long, and boot them out of the game and let everyone else leave freely!

I could see issues people exploiting it, but maybe harsher penalties on leavers could deter it. Like to the guy that leaves (intentionally), he loses 5x the amount of lp or something. Anyone at 0 lp just gets demoted. And, to prevent people leaving to not let the enemy team get their lp, they could take the lp lost from the troll and give it to the winning team as compensation. Idk i havent completely thought about everything but i think its worth a shot!

Btw im not a DOTA fanboy i really dont even like it, but this is probably the most brilliant thing ever.

9 Comments

VertexRose5 votes

I'm gonna clarify how the system works. If anyone fails to connect - the game is canceled(no game history). Players are sent back into the lobby and into queue. This doesn't work in LoL because champions are selected first then we connect. Rather DotA players connect first then we pick heroes.
If someone fails to connect for the first ~5 minutes(without it being paused), the leaver(and his/her party) are penalized with a leave. Game history is recorded but no W/L are recorded. If someone dc's a team that has the DC'd player may pause the game for at least 1 minute(usually in ranked games people i play with are usually nice enough to wait until that player comes back). This halts the abandon timer, after 5 minutes of AFK/DC the person is branded as a leaver(along with party). The game will continue on but if you want to leave , you can without penalty. W/L are still recorded. If someone does not gain any exp for 5minutes they are kicked as a leaver(although this has created problems with Techies). This is to avoid people who just camp at fountain for ages to avoid being marked as leaver.

It doesn't really allow much exploit, or as far as I've played it. It's simply if there's no stats to be recorded move on to the next game. It would be nice for the game but I don't think they would implement it

Jlesaistu1 votes

{quoted}

I'm gonna clarify how the system works. If anyone fails to connect - the game is canceled(no game history). Players are sent back into the lobby and into queue. This doesn't work in LoL because champions are selected first then we connect. Rather DotA players connect first then we pick heroes.
If someone fails to connect for the first ~5 minutes(without it being paused), the leaver(and his/her party) are penalized with a leave. Game history is recorded but no W/L are recorded. If someone dc's a team that has the DC'd player may pause the game for at least 1 minute(usually in ranked games people i play with are usually nice enough to wait until that player comes back). This halts the abandon timer, after 5 minutes of AFK/DC the person is branded as a leaver(along with party). The game will continue on but if you want to leave , you can without penalty. W/L are still recorded. If someone does not gain any exp for 5minutes they are kicked as a leaver(although this has created problems with Techies). This is to avoid people who just camp at fountain for ages to avoid being marked as leaver.

It doesn't really allow much exploit, or as far as I've played it. It's simply if there's no stats to be recorded move on to the next game. It would be nice for the game but I don't think they would implement it

it would be pretty nice. and yea there is not much exploit.

system like LOW PRIORITY queud they have in dota in great too IMO...

poeple who leave or dc a game for whatever reason are automaticaly banned from ranked play for x amound of game, getting no iP for those match as well....now that would be nice.

JevelFaithful1 votes

Lots of good ideas actually. At least for Normals if ranked integrity is a problem.

Also thank for actually spelling it out.

Shiny Pidgey1 votes

"IT CAN BE ABUSED."

This is the answer you will get.

Jlesaistu1 votes

actually it cannot be abused much.

when it say: ''you get no penality''

that jsut mean you wont get intro low priority queud as a punishement for leaving. you STILL get a lost.

Shiny Pidgey1 votes

{quoted}

actually it cannot be abused much.

when it say: ''you get no penality''

that jsut mean you wont get intro low priority queud as a punishement for leaving. you STILL get a lost.

I know. It's just a lot of answers I see for solutions to problems in LoL are like "IT CAN BE ABUSED", "LOL IS FINE THE WAY IT IS", "YOU CAN EASILLY CARRY A 4v6 GAME!".

MPendragon1 votes

If Riot actually punished people for the fools and immature kids that they are, it would eternally rectify all of League's problems.

Hey, you intentionally fed, ragequit, spazzed out, gave away your allies location, refused to participate?

Enjoy a 6 month ban!

Instead, Riot let's you do all of these offenses for 6 months, and then gives you a 1 week suspension.

Zzz.

windwolf7771 votes

Just saying, the dota system isn't even if they disconnect and leave the game. It's even if somebody don't get any exp for 5 minutes. This is a slight problem for heroes like Pudge (blitz esque hook being his most defining skill along with "FRESH MEAT", or our version of Teemo, Techies (everybody hates him, and relies on placing mines to do damage)

Silents4291 votes

I don't get the problem with the current system, So far a few mishaps but its been working wonders?

And having everyone have the option to just up and leave if someone DC's is a horrible idea, I mean what if he is simply trying to reconnect? He dc's for everyone else, then everyone says "Fuck this" and exists the game, then the guy reconnects and leaves too when everyone else did.

Sure an unlikely scenario but honestly Dota itself works different then LoL, Let Riot perfect its own system.

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