Que System, Dodges, and Secondary Role Suggested Changes

Owatatsumi Kami·11/26/2016, 12:15:45 AM·1 votes·472 views

I think auto-fill is fine, especially with auto-fill protection. What I don't feel is fine is people constantly getting their second role compared to their primary or, after getting their primary role, there is a dodge and next draft they get swapped to fill or secondary role. Players shouldn't be punished for someone else dodging.

To help fix this, I suggest a few things.

One, if someone gets their secondary role, increase their chances of getting their primary role. Keep increasing their preference the more times in a row they get their secondary.

Second, if someone gets their primary and someone dodges, increase the likely-hood they'll get their primary role again. As for right now, I feel the system prioritized getting them into a match again as soon as possible and not their role preferences. It seems to be better to decline a que pop after someone dodges draft than to accept it right away if you want to get your primary role.

As for the dodger, increase their chance for fill or, better yet, give them guaranteed fill, which will increase with the number of dodges in X period of time. This will help de-incentivize dodging in order to skip filling or avoid playing your secondary. Finally, being able to report players for trolling in draft would be a huge improvement. That would decrease some cases of serious players feeling like they either have to dodge or waste 20-50 minutes because of a troll, who can't be reported because they game never starts.

Now this is just throwing stuff out there. I'm not sure if these suggestions would even be viable due to people trying to game the system. For example, people keep switching their preferred role between primary and secondary in order to get it more often. Something would probably need to be added to track someone's play patterns over a long time and add that in to the algorithm. This fix might work for people who always play the same role but for those who like to switch things up, it might be better to just leave things as they are due to the negative impact on their style of play.

I think the penalty to dodges, at least, would be pretty solid. Also, being able to report trolls in champ select, would help a lot.

Note: Not sure if this fits in gameplay or client more. Let me know if you want me to re-post or better yet,just move it.

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