Loss prevention for team with afk?

Daddy Putin·2/26/2016, 7:21:00 AM·3 votes·477 views

Why punish the team with the afk? I propose that if you have a teammate who afks it should be a loss prevented for the team that had the afk. its very very hard to win a 4v5 game. yes possible, but very hard. Losing LP or simply just a game because of a uncontrollable factor should not be a thing.

I mean there is no way this could be abused. The afker would still get LP loss and normal afk punishments. also the other team would still get an LP gain just like it was a victory. There isn't a downside. if there is please comment and explain why this isn't a thing.

3 Comments

Privileged Jew2/26/2016, 7:38:13 AM3 votes

So you're saying that if at 20 minutes in, the enemy team knows they're going to lose, there is no way someone could elect to afk so that the rest of the team doesn't suffer a loss with them?

No way that this could be abused, huh?

masterdragon4812/26/2016, 7:38:04 AM1 votes

Its been suggested, I've suggested it. There are ways it could be abused, but I have been a very strong advocate that there are ways that abuse could be minimized or eliminated nearly entirely (I won't promise some people won't try to abuse it). If you are still curious, message back and I'll see if I can find my previous threads and responses; if I can't I'll try to summarize as best as possible.

The super short story is that its been discussed, I think it could work quite well, but there has never been any Red attention, comment, or acknowledgment of this topic. Either on my posts or on any other. Its sorta a shame, but I wouldn't get your hopes up too much. (This isn't a "Riot is lazy and doesn't care about us" post, if it sounded like that it wasn't intended to).

mogonk2/26/2016, 7:57:41 AM1 votes

Abuse case is obvious and it's never going to happen.

This has already been discussed to death.