Stop Your Allies From Being Autobots (not the transformers, the program)

CuddleCrewKing··6 votes·1,035 views

Dear Riot,

A few months ago i would OCCASIONALLY encounter a player whom if i did not know better, i would simply assume absolutely sucked at the game. They choose either summoner's rift or twisted treeline bot games. They instalock a champion, do not communicate in chat, randomly choose a lane, and stick to that lane no matter what. They also never cast abilities, stay in lane at ridiculously low health, and end up feeding a bot (it is possible) a ton of kills. They also constantly get executed from either minions or turrets, not realizing they're taking damage. In game they never say anything in chat, never ping, never respond to anything. This used to be a once a two month occurrence for me to see. My presumption is they level up the accounts to 30, with a bunch of IP, and sell them so people don't have to play all the way through, which is how they learn the game.

Now however, this is a DAILY occurrence. I see these robot players in level 30 games; which isn't really a problem for us because at the level of skill, we can still win an essentially 4v5, 3v5, 2v5, or the one time i was stuck with 4 of them, so it was a 1 v 5. Again, high enough skill level, you can win it (even though you don't want to because you're helping them. This is a MAJOR Problem though at lower levels. I have friends who want to get into league, so 'll make a new account so i be at the same level as them to help educate them on how to play. If i come across one or two of these robot players, it's not a problem for me because i know how to play. But for someone who is just starting out, to have a player on their team who; doesn't communicate (in game or pregame), allow players to lane where they want, due to autochoosing, and feeding an enemy, can be extremely difficult, overwhelming, and turn people away from the game. For a new player who won't know that the person feeding is actually a program and not a real human, to see a player with that kind of behavior or play skill, they may not want to keep playing in fear of being constantly stuck with them, hurting their game expirience.

I'm not sure what riot can do to stop the use of the programs, other than educate on players on what to look for and report them post game so that the accounts can be banned, but something needs to be done, otherwise a lot of people are going to get pissed off at these AI programs, and may leave league, as well as players jumping right on in at level 30, playing a game, getting destroyed, and having their team come down on them with OVERWHELMING negativity and probably major vulgarity. So please, let's do something to rid the League of these Autobots and Deceptiplayers, to make a better League for tomorrow.

6 Comments

Thunder Dreamss1 votes

This is a serious problem. So far Riot has simply not responded to anyone bring it up (so far as I have seen) but they'll need to address it sooner or later. If you really want to see allot of these scripted players play Dominion bot games. You'll probably get 2 to 4 or these robots on your team every single game.

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

Stop your allies from being program bots. Because nothing can stop them from being Autobots.

SnowFall1 votes

it's funny how can it be solved so easily just by removing summoner level

CuddleCrewKing1 votes

This a true statement, but then we have the issue of people of HIGHLY varying skill levels playing with or against each other, which creates extremely unbalanced games. ELO's only provide so much data in pairing, as some people may be excellent in the role of an adc, but if left to a top lane role may be horrible. The summoner level (to a degree) helps to better segregate the bad players from the good ones.

The reason there is a leveling system at all is so that people can learn and improve at the game (theoretically) as they play more and more and more to level up, where hopefully they'll come across someone who knows what they're doing who may help them along the way.

While i have no doubt that there is a better system that could be created/implemented to change this, at this current point in time, Riot needs to at the very least, acknowledge and address the issue, and then hopefully take some steps to fix it.

SnowFall1 votes

This a true statement, but then we have the issue of people of HIGHLY varying skill levels playing with or against each other, which creates extremely unbalanced games. ELO's only provide so much data in pairing, as some people may be excellent in the role of an adc, but if left to a top lane role may be horrible. The summoner level (to a degree) helps to better segregate the bad players from the good ones.

The reason there is a leveling system at all is so that people can learn and improve at the game (theoretically) as they play more and more and more to level up, where hopefully they'll come across someone who knows what they're doing who may help them along the way.

While i have no doubt that there is a better system that could be created/implemented to change this, at this current point in time, Riot needs to at the very least, acknowledge and address the issue, and then hopefully take some steps to fix it.

matchmaking is already imbalanced picking challengers against pre-lvl 30

12tales1 votes

I generally send a ticket to riot support whenever I encounter one. But yeah, they're a pain in the ass.

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