If you disconnect, you should be unkillable until you reconnect

Your Next Kill·Feb 29, 2016·5 votes·952 views

Nothing irritates me more than when I'm trying to farm or get damage on a turret and all of a sudden my ping jumps to 10000+ and I get the "Attempting to reconnect" notification, than my connection stabilizes and I see my dead corpse because the enemy laner killed me when my connection went to hell. It doesn't really seem fair to me that your opponent gets free gold and a kill because of something you couldn't control. Only rarely do people have the heart not to kill you when you actually disconnect. I'm just tired of my opponents getting ahead even more than they already are when I disconnect.

I don't really see how this could be abused, so why can't Riot just make disconnected players unkillable? It seems like the fair thing to do.

9 Comments

ToasteyFeb 29, 20165 votes

ppl would alt+f4 their game if they're getting picked off solo

Your Next KillFeb 29, 20161 votes

I'm not talking about exiting a game. I'm talking about when you lose connection with the servers and you have no control.

ToasteyMar 1, 20161 votes

alt+f4'ing your game would be seen as the same in the game's eyes, and there's no way to differentiate between a loss of control unrelated to the user, and the user disconnecting himself.

even if you could differentiate the two, people would be able to abuse the "unkillable d/c" by unplugging their modems/routers.

Destr0i 50006Feb 29, 20162 votes

Idk if you're kidding or not, but this can easily be abused. You can disconnect your internet if you're getting killed then become invulnerable.

Viperjcs1985Feb 29, 20162 votes

Do you know how easily abused that would be?

SuperdoerFeb 29, 20161 votes

it's abusable then

hsumis1oveFeb 29, 20161 votes

nah. then people would manipulate it and if someone got into a sticky situation, he would dc/lagswitch and get a free walkback to base.

NaramielFeb 29, 20161 votes

The game should be better about recognizing that you're disconnected - after even 1000 milliseconds of zero packets hitting the server it should start walking you back - but other than that you shouldn't get any special immunity (because of abuse concerns).

BurlyBurritoMar 1, 20161 votes

What you should do is pick a server near to you...I live in asia,so I get the NA server at 250-300 pings on a good day,the oceania server 100-150 on another....prioritize the server that u feel works the best for you