Less LP lost for players who have a AFK/DC

MasterSkadu·7/31/2017, 4:14:12 PM·3 votes·268 views

You know if their is one thing that drives me up a wall for a lot games is players who AFK/DC, and the annoying thing further from it is the team that has to surrender from the AFK/DC still take the large LP lost cost hurting their rank climb.

My question to everybody out there and the Riot team is Why doesn't the AFK players take more the LP lost vs the players who stay in the game to play it out take less LP lost? It would be fair as the player who quits in a rank game take most of that lost of LP and less of a burden on those who played.

8 Comments

Barley7/31/2017, 4:44:17 PM1 votes

This could only happen if the player was DC<, as RIOT can't detect an afk player.

MasterSkadu7/31/2017, 5:42:21 PM1 votes

But this coming from more of players who actually quit the game. Like if one player dc out the game and doesn't come back and the game flags it. the other 4 players would lose 5 points while the DC player loses 20, and those who in risk of a demotion or lost of promo cause of a DC/AFK get one extra chance, rather then having to climb for the points again.

The Leo Cat7/31/2017, 5:45:31 PM1 votes

The problem is this is easily abused.

Coding wise, you can't actually detect if someone had DCed under an act of god, or he just purposely killed his router.

MasterSkadu7/31/2017, 5:54:27 PM1 votes

The system is smart enough to know when a player is actively trying to reconnect vs somebody who isn't at all.