High Priority Queue (aka Solution to Prisoner's Island)

PsykeMaNewts··3 votes·1,307 views

So I posted another discussion about how Bronze is already Prisoner's Island and I have compelling proof and testimony that I'm right. Putting that aside for the moment, rather than penalizing people and putting them in Low Priority Queue, and or confining them to Bronze with mechanics that keep people locked there more than it makes the game better (Autofill, Leaver Penalties, etc), why not create a High Priority Queue as a REWARD for people who play will with others, try hard to win, and display good sportsmanship?

Here's what I'm thinking: Remove incremental leaver penalties all together. Let people dodge, AFK, whatever. A 5 minute standard penalty is all you need. It doesn't need to get bigger. Instead of punishing people for dodging MORE, reward them for dodging LESS. If they play 10 games without dodging or leaving a game, put them in High Priority queue where they are matched with other people in High Priority queue on their team. This will teach people to work together, as a team, instead of dodging. Give them bonus LP for wins and less LP lost for a loss. Encourage people to work together and do well. Disable Autofill for High Priority queue OR give people the option to OPT IN to Autofill in High Priority if they want to get in a game faster.

Simply put, make it better for people who try to get along, not worse for people who refuse. That just punishes everyone when you get someone tilted and jaded on their team.

4 Comments

The KnightOwl2 votes

Couldn't agree more, this would make the game so much better. Fuck trolls and afks.

dunder kill1 votes

Let people dodge, AFK, whatever. A 5 minute standard penalty is all you need.

What am I reading? AFKers only get 5 minute penalties instead of bans? Get bonus LP for not dodging? Are you not aware of how a ranked ladder works? Its a competitive environment. It's not supposed to baby you through the ranks just because you can't climb. If you can't climb it probably because you are exactly where you belong. You have almost 400 ranked games this season alone. This is beyond having some bad luck in promos. This is beyond getting trolls or afker. Its a solid sample size where things should have averaged out.

Instead of trying to make the system baby you, maybe focus on improving. The "it's never my fault" attitude was old years ago.

PsykeMaNewts1 votes

Maybe you're right. Maybe I am where I deserve to be. Of course, my post wasn't titled, "Oh woe is me, why am I Bronze?" My post was titled, "High Priority Queue (aka Solution to Prisoner's Island)." If you want to read my post about my 400 games in Bronze and the 'competitive environment,' check out my post about why Bronze is actually the same as Prisoner's Island.

I don't know who you are, nor do I really care about your win/loss rate this or any other season. Your comment does illustrate my point nicely, however. For no reason, you're confrontational. There's no reason for it. You read my post and felt the need to look me up, as if that would validate or invalidate my opinion. But really, let's simply invalidate YOUR opinion:

League of Legends is a team game. Its not my job to make my solo/duo Bronze level teammates be better and nicer people, or better players in general. It is impossible for me to 1v5 and win every single game so I'm forced to rely on my random teammates. My level of skill doesn't really matter towards my inability to climb because even if I did everything WRONG, by your logic, someone on my team should carry me to a win. Clearly, that isn't the case. I have a 50% win rate. So that's 200 games I've won out of 400 games with 1600 random teammates (You know, since I was a constant in 400 of those games). 1600 random people played with me and regardless of their skill level, 800 of them got wins and 800 got losses (not counting the opposing team or pool of 2000 random people I've played against). So again, by your logic, since it was my fault, it was also the fault of 800 random teammates. Which means, if one person can ruin a game, and one person can make a game, statistically it is impossible to climb out of Bronze with the current 'competitive system'. The only way to truly get out is to be lucky.

People should be ranked with people of their own skill level but I know, without question, my skill level is higher than someone who has 0 LP in Bronze 5 who is throwing a fit and trolling a game because they didn't get to play the champion in the role they wanted. I know its better than the guy who's pizza just showed up and he wants to go AFK to stuff his face. And its definitely better than the kid playing Anivia or Tham Kench just to intentionally throw a game because they had a bad day at school so they hop on a smurf account to troll some Bronze noobs. Thus, if RIOT doesn't want a 'Prisoner's Island' to send bad players, they should instead offer a respite for good players, since Bronze is, in fact, already Prisoner's Island.

purplepepsi3211 votes

I've only played around 50 games in bronze and I feel you I main Kat 300 k points and you probably know her power curve and her potential to carry but it is still so hard maybe we can duo sometime but just keep trying man I got from bronze 4 to bronze 2 in 50 games so keep trying I feel your pain

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