4 Bots & Me...

Rummie e2·Oct 8, 2014·29 votes·3,366 views

My last game featured 4 bots on my team (please ignore my score, I left this game at the 3m mark when I verified this was reality...): http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1573994661/221217000 https://i.imgur.com/MW6uvFi.jpg

We need a new vote option to target these accounts. Encourage your player base to use it. Identifying these accounts is not hard and verifying them should be easy as well (to avoid innocent players from being abused by the system). Maybe 10 votes and the account is perma banned and all referral's linked to it are retracted?

25 Comments

Cuz1972Oct 8, 201412 votes

Riot made it so you can`t gain IP from custom games, so bots were sent out into the world to ruin our matches. It was really, really stupidly short sighted of Riot.

I Main SwainOct 9, 20145 votes

not really, it is a little bad to be able to gain ip and xp from customs because someone could make lvl 30 without ever playing against people so they basically have no idea how to play the game in an actual match. I feel like instead of removing it they should just make it a really small amount, enough that it really isn't worth it but you do get a little bit. maybe even let it proc first win of the day.

Cuz1972Oct 9, 20143 votes

You can still get to level 30 without ever playing against people. So removing IP / XP from custom games did nothing but force bots into the other game modes.

Duke DryfockerOct 9, 20142 votes

You can still get to level 30 without ever playing against people. So removing IP / XP from custom games did nothing but force bots into the other game modes.

As Warlor pointed out this is absolutely true and could hold the answer.

I Main SwainOct 9, 20141 votes

but at least bot games you are playing WITH other people, in customs its basically "im gonna go attack speed gragas and get a 1v5 penta with revive tele"

ValyrianBladeOct 8, 20144 votes

Just my 2 cents, but referrals to botting accounts should have the referring account permanently banned as well after a couple incidents. I get once referring a friend and having them decide independently to bot, but if you keep referring people that keep botting, you're probably the one abusing the system. It's also a more likely way to stop new ones altogether.

EMOFRATPARTYOct 8, 20143 votes

Please fill out my Bot-related survey, I'm trying to track the issue so that Riot can have better data to solve the problem. We don't want games like yours to keep happening!

Bot Encounters: A Survey

EverTokkiOct 8, 20141 votes

Can I link your survey to my post as well? I really like it.

Duke DryfockerOct 8, 20142 votes

Can I link your survey to my post as well? I really liked your survey.

YES! please do :)

EMOFRATPARTYOct 8, 20141 votes

EverTokkiOct 8, 20141 votes

Lol, thanks!

HikariKnightOct 8, 20143 votes

Are the bots more often found in beginner or intermediate?

I'm in agreement with you, we do need a votekick or even a in game report button that can alert an active rioter to spectate and see it themselves.

The only current thing u can do, is report them at the end game screen, and we should, it's the only way Riot will truely see these bots if they get enough reports.

clickheadOct 9, 20142 votes

Probably intermediate because you get more gold and experience for intermediate.

HikariKnightOct 9, 20141 votes

After snooping around the forums, I'm figuring out they appear in almost all game modes, but at lower elo. I've never encountered bots so far, or at least, i havent noticed them.

clickheadOct 9, 20141 votes

I'm platinum and I have encountered bots at least 20 times in the past year. In coop vs AI, you are usually put with random players and your mmr doesn't really matter so there are as many bots at higher elo there or almost. In dominion though, there are probably more bots at lower elo yeah although my dominion mmr is even higher than my solo queue mmr and I have seen bots there a few times.

HikariKnightOct 10, 20141 votes

Hmm, i think i might be dense, but i might have had encounters and just not noticed. Elo wasn't as relevant as i thought.

clickheadOct 11, 20141 votes

I just played a normal blind pick on twisted treeline with my sis. Our teammate was a bot, and the three enemies were bots. My twisted treeline MMR is very low though and hers too so it might be that but it's still disconcerting.

NeroUSOct 10, 20141 votes

I don't think I've ever seen a bot either. I tried playing some ARAM games to see if I could see one. I guess I'll try a co-op v AI.

deathmage390Oct 8, 20142 votes

i had a gragas bot on the enemy team in dominion last night. its ridiculous.

Duke DryfockerOct 8, 20142 votes

Here are some other threads regarding Bots! Please Upvote and bump them!

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/VJBFMTZE-bots

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/gfmBMm4b-bots-in-3s

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/hUAOkQ4g-players-making-in-game-bots

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/miscellaneous/dcvXLPRA-dominion-bots

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/I1oIM6Wg-gameplay-script-bots-in-dominion-and-twisted-treeline-instead-of-real-players

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/miscellaneous/Twgiipky-feeder-bots

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/miscellaneous/hZvJZqyQ-the-real-issue-currently-bots

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/summoners-rift/l2E1xkel-riot-please-the-bots-on-twisted-treeline

KidKaiserOct 8, 20142 votes

plot twist. rito's the one behind the bot ip farming scheme.

but foreals. it's ruining new players chances of enjoying the game and learning. sigh.

@Lyte calling master Lyte senpai to the boards !

RivenwindOct 9, 20142 votes

I've noticed that there seems to be a whole new slew of them here lately when I was practicing new roles/champs in Co-op AI games. The other live players that I was with suggested that it might be someone trying to develop a new bot program/software.

They're pretty obvious. Our ashe bot kept trying to get CS with her E and sending her ult in seemingly random directions.

IeeTeY GGOct 9, 20142 votes

I have a better idea create a server just for these bot (flagged of course) and sneak them into this new SR server and make it 0 xp and 0 IP gain oh and make referrals cost 50 buck so that if you gonna use it then you better pay up for the good ness of yourself and your friend. But this link give you two free skin of your friend choice.

At the same time the botter will have to think twice before using it. Also the reason to behind this is.... why ban them when you can just make their computer suffer in a realm of impossibility

Duke DryfockerOct 8, 20141 votes

I completely agree that Bots are out of hand! It's gotten really bad the last few days! I also wrote a thread about this that so far has about 80 upvotes. I have upvoted this thread. Please do the same to mine so that we can force a response from RIOT on this issue! And please comment for bump :)

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/miscellaneous/cqeIgEEm-ip-farming-bots-are-out-of-hand-must-be-moved-to-extremely-high-priority-asap

WarlorOct 9, 20141 votes

Hello Everyone Riot has been fully aware of the bot problem. At one point they were isolated in custom games and not bothering anybody other than riot (who could have come out with a better solution), instead they took ip/exp out of custom games. This forced botters to move into regular games.

Here is the thread from the old, better forums:

http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3832701&page=1