DC/AFK.... why the F*** don't we have this yet??!?!?!??!?!?!

Dewm·Apr 4, 2016·3 votes·607 views

JUST finished a game (ranked) where a Sivir connected.. got her starting items.. then DC'd for the ENTIRE 20 minute game. Why on EARTH hasn't Riot changed that to a "loss prevented game" yet?!

It would be pretty simple. If one team has a champion that does NOT get higher then level 2, its a loss prevented. It's dumb enough that I have to put up with a 20-30 minute game thats a guaranteed loss.... but to get LP taken away.. is even more insulting.

And before the Riot defenders arrive with "well it happens to everyone equally"...even if it does, it SHOULDN'T!! the winning team can still keep their "win" the losing team just gets a loss prevented. That way both parties are happy. If you are on the side with 5 champions then you feel good because you got a free win. And if you are on the losing side, you feel better because at least you didn't lose LP.

I just don't understand why they are in freaking season 6, and this still isn't in the game.

5 Comments

HethaleanApr 4, 20162 votes

So you would want to put an abusable mechanic where if you are facing a champion that you don't want to face in ranked, that you can AFK/disconnect and prevent the loss you are expecting? Which should probably make more people afk because they are either trolling (and now not getting LP losses) or rageing because they didn't get the champion they wanted.

DewmApr 4, 20161 votes

{quoted}

So you would want to put an abusable mechanic where if you are facing a champion that you don't want to face in ranked, that you can AFK/disconnect and prevent the loss you are expecting? Which should probably make more people afk because they are either trolling (and now not getting LP losses) or rageing because they didn't get the champion they wanted.

I don't honestly see how it would be more abusable then the current system.

I mean currently.. if the enemy picks a champ you don't want to play against, or your champ got banned etc... you can just dodge and take a 2-4lp hit (which might matter up in diamond +...but down in gold (where I am at) it doesn't matter.

How would this be any different?

Example: you wanted to play vayne, and you HATE playing against a soraka. Well vayne got banned, and they first picked Soraka.

Currently 2 options: Play the game OR take a 3lp hit.

with this new system: 3 options: take a 3lp hit, play the game OR afk for 20 minutes and get reported for afk.

Like I said, the system would only count loss prevented if the "afk" champion never got above level 2. SO if they never connected or DC'd right in the beginning it would prevent it. I dont' see how its that "abusable"

SarutobiApr 4, 20161 votes

While i think everyone would like some type of solution for something like this, yours wouldnt really work especially with how Hethalean explain it. It would get heavily abused and would just make people either leave so they dont suffer the lost, or troll to the point where they make someone else leave so they dont take the hit!

Sariat1Apr 4, 20162 votes

At least make the punishment worse for players who abandon games right from the start.

SarutobiApr 4, 20161 votes

{quoted}

At least make the punishment worse for players who abandon games right from the start.

But then what if the problem isnt on the players side? What if they got a Bugsplat error, or something was wrong with the ISP? All of those are out of the control of the player and to have them punished for something that is out of their control is wrong.