It would be awesome to be able to actually check who is better (between you and a friend) at level 18 with max gold... without having to wait in a custom game. It would also allow for people to check for interactions and ect... that you just can't do alone.
I am Pacman1 votesBecause that would require giving people access to the server and riot doesn't want to do that.
Mortalspirit2 votes"giving people access to the server" what do you mean by that? every other game mode gives player "access to the server." literally every multiplayer game gives players access to a server.
I am Pacman3 votesLook I don't do any of this so I'm going to try and explain what I can until someone with actual knowledge shows up.
Basically when you are in a game of league your computer is constantly sending and receiving information (packets) to and from the server. These have everything in them, the position of champions, minions, monsters, what level the enemy is etc.
Practice mode gives you the ability to mess with any of these inputs by giving gold, levels, reseting cds however your computer will be doing it all client side. If there were 2 people then you would also have to send all of those changes to the other computer.
If you then monitor the what packets are being sent between the server and the 2 other computers then you should be able to reverse engineer the proccess.
If you know what information to send to the server to tell it what to change to instantly give yourself 10000 gold or level 18 then you can start doing this in normal online games thus undermining the entire game and potentially allowing people to cheat.
Idk though, I might be completely wrong but that's what I've kinda heard/read over the years back when they didn't want to make a sandbox mode entirely.
Mortalspirit1 votesyea, i mean you got correct information there but your assumption that packets can be hacked into like that is pretty wild and requires an external application to 1. breach security and gather which variables are changing and 2. to physically manipulate those variables through a script. Even without a multiplayer practice tool, these variables can already be manipulated if you are able to breach security and physically manipulate them as all you would have to do is identify the variable the gold is changing with or something. This may sound simple but Riot is multimillionare company with very top notch security for their game, this isn't the reason they delayed sandbox so long originally.
"For this point, our stance is that sandbox mode is not the way to go. We want to make sure we’re clear: playing games of League of Legends should be the unequivocal best way for a player to improve. While there are very real skills one can develop in a hyperbolic time chamber, we never want that to be an expectation added onto an already high barrier to entry." source: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/riot-games/announcements/riot-pls
ElysMustache1 votesIt is a new tool. They wanted to launch it soon rather than fully featured. Lots more should come.
That's my theory.
Calabok1 voteswhy play the real game if you can invite people in to the tool? seriously..
