Adding a ping indicator on the login screen

Get Chad On··56 votes·6,121 views

Riot, i think you should add a ping indicator on the log in screen like in the Chinese league login page. This will make it so that you know how your internet is and it won't unexpected when you join a game and realize you have bad ping, decreasing the gameplay experience for others. I think overall this would really help decrease the amount of games where you meet a dc.

34 Comments

Tiphess23 votes

wait

chinese actually have more functionnality like this than us ?

w0t

DaejinTye9 votes

wait

chinese actually have more functionnality like this than us ?

w0t

Dude, the U.S. has the worst functionality and support right now. The reason for it is, "The U.S. is just too big." Maybe in a few more years they can add multi-server platforming for us which would solve 95% of all latency issues for everyone.

I mean, I'd rather have a set delay for 100% of players, than have it range from .1s to 2.0s delay based on region and actual ping.

Foxymillion1 votes

the U.S isn't TOO big china has the largest population in the world and is just an overall bigger country the reason there servers are so good (and is why i play them more often since im in japan) is they actually WANT and Will do there shit right and they know that doing a very pricey overall of there stuff is worth it in the long run

DaejinTye1 votes

That was the reason given to us, not the reason.

Bottom line is, we're given the worst servers and support of any region.

NOHRIAN SKUM2 votes

Even worse than Europe?

RoyaiChaos2 votes

Maybe they meant land size, not population? Edit: Fail

Foxymillion2 votes

China is still bigger in both land size and population

Benny Reno1 votes

What's not bigger is their LOL player base. This has nothing at all to do with landmass and population size.

SearingDarkness1 votes

The large majority of their population is located in a relatively small area. Just because a country has a lot of land doesn't mean their entire population is spread upon all of it.

Drunk Old Man17 votes

I've been wondering why we don't have something like this: (look to the right of the "Launch" button)

Stanmangundy1 votes

I've been wondering why we don't have something like this: (look to the right of the "Launch" button)

I don't see this on my launcher, is it a setting or does it only appear when your ping sucks?

Drunk Old Man4 votes

It's something I made, not something that's actually part of the client.

Also, with ping, lower numbers are better.

RadicalHelix5 votes

+1 We need this.

Grand Eleven3 votes

We had this ... remember it was taken away because it was apparently toxic

Salt and Veigar2 votes

how?

DaejinTye23 votes

We had this ... remember it was taken away because it was apparently toxic

We did? I only remember being able to see everyone's ping in the loading screen, not in the client or log-in screen.

gubigubi6 votes

Ya by the time you are in the loading screen its way to late to not play lol.

Necron XCIX3 votes

We had this ... remember it was taken away because it was apparently toxic

we had it during the loading screen, not during the login screen. It was "toxic" there because players could see your ping and could get easily demoralized if it was high

having it on the login screen is completely different and would be super helpful

3ngin33r3 votes

That would give the people a legit proof to protest against bad servers, riot wont shoot themselves

5512023 votes

And 1 ping indicator on the lobby room too, so we know if we can play or not.

Hunting dragonAl1 votes

这个,,是因为腾讯服务器不好才会有的,服务器承受能力太差所以那么多服务器!

Hunting dragonAl1 votes

我不觉得这样很好看。I don't think this is very nice.

Hunting dragonAl1 votes

summoner 3

AbodyHUN6661 votes

suggested it long ago, maybe here people will really notice it.

Caezium1 votes

This would be a sexy addition. I would be happy if they did this.

Solidair31 votes

I normally just start a custom game with just me and some bots to test mine, but this would definitely be preferable.

The MechE1 votes

Why is China always ahead?

17inchcorkscrew1 votes

Just ping 216.52.241.254 for NA servers. It will save you from many unplayable games.

7ha7guy7771 votes

while i do think this would be useful for times when the server is having issues over a long period of time, i find that most games when i have ping issues, they don't happen until a couple of minutes into the game and usually only occur when near enemies.

rockeyhill011 votes

i think that is a great idea

Me For Toxicity1 votes

Why do you need a ping meter?

If you pay for your own connection, you can afford one that doesn't magically lag every single game. And no, I don't buy the "it's not all the time" excuse. You're probably a minor who is on their family's internet connection.

CarzarHaxi2 votes

What? I pay for my own internet and I've bought the best package available in the area, but sometimes it's spiking to 500 ping for a few hours. ATT sucks and if you're serious, that's dumb.

Zarg1 votes

I'm paying for 10 mbits internet yet my ISP only gives me 1 mbit at most. What now?

Par Xżi1 votes

NO! I DISAGREE! SCREW THIS!

If you don't realize, almost all of the online Chinese games have stuff like this where people pick a server. Its really stupid because 90% of people pick the first ones, so it will be full all the time. If you and your friends are in different servers then how are you gonna play together? Also, I don't wanna waste my time picking a server and connecting to it after I logged in. BTW Draven

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