I see 4 people are still punished if 1 DC's in load screen

Implement long requested features with tons of community support (recording, mmr loss mitigation with dced teammates, east coast servers)? No, let's just be "creatively inspired" by our competitors (champion mastery, party exp rewards).

technially 5 people are punished... its not like the person who d/c doesn't also lose because of it. the issues is that there should only be ONE person punished

I keep DCing at the loading screen and it's REALLY annoying. I keep having to watch the loading screen like a hawk to see whether it's gonna load or not, and if it looks like it won't I have to close it and reconnect. But, what's worse is that my Ping and the loading screen percentages still CHANGE even when it's bugged out, which is really deceptive and can end up making you load 4-5 minutes into the game. It's just stupid, the loading screen bugs need to be fixed.

but like 70% of people who disconnect on loading screens come in 2-3 minutes into the game so no biggie on the most part. In other news, Banana Sokara!

Not only in loading screen. Its even worse if the person randomly disconnect mid game. Because all game you have the hope of winning but then its 4v5 and its almost impossible to win if the two teams where even. The worst is: people dont always report the afks in the post game lobby. If people get severly punished for disconnecting maybe they'll learn their lesson. I remember back in the days of DotA on WC3, if you disconnected mid game you where the biggest a-hole of the server for the rest of the week. I still have this mentality so this is why im not very forgiving about the AFKs. I've heard every excuses imaginable a million times over the years.

amen. this game is starting to get reallllly ridiculous.

Would be really nice to be able to leave match without any repercussions 5 min after match starts.

Would be cool if you could vote to replace your teammate with a bot. When the person reconnects, the bot can be taken control of when it's out of combat. If the bot is laning, it'll go toward tower so you can gain control.

on strife the game is paused until the person reconnects which only takes about 2 minutes. Riot should have a waiting time when all players connect to allow the d/c'd person to reconnect without having to start at 3min because of firewall bs

I remember some older discussions on the topic and someone pointed out something that really makes a lot of sense.

The system we have is probably the best one we can get. Why? Any sort of mitigation system will be exploited. If loading-screen DCs don't count then it becomes a last-second queue dodge because most people are savvy enough to know that if you turn off your wireless or unplug the network cord from the back of your system the Internet doesn't work anymore. It would be even worse if you mitigate mid-match disconnects since then one teammate can 'sacrifice' their own LPs to cover everyone else. Heck, some duos in solo-queue would probably bring someone along just for that reason.

If you think people aren't that petty and aren't willing to go to those lengths now, just remember there was a time way back when where people thought queue-dodging was strictly the domain of whiny children and you could be shamed if you admitted you did it. These days it's a more or less accepted part of Ranked strategy.

Are you seriously bitching because people reconnect a minute in game?

The D/C loses LP as well and has to wait 10 min before each game for 5 games.

The absolute worst part of all is 99% of the time it's not even their fault they can't get into the game!

Riot sucks at designing their game and coming up with solutions to trivial problems like this.

Ah yes, because every loss must be Riot punishing you personally.

On my main I keep getting the same fucktard on the enemy team, and it seems like whoever they go against mysteriously gets dropped before the game ever starts. They play like bronze, but are gold 3 with diamond MMR.

Gotta love free to play non secure games.