Why Are These Not Enabled?
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Anyhow, neither of these are my ideas. The first comes from DotA, and the second a community member, from GD. If I recall, the second was actually designed by Frosthaven.
Anyhow, although DotA is a very different game, about the first: When conditions get bad, Loss Prevention is enabled. Yes this is a new feature (at least from what I've seen since Season 2), and yes it's not always implemented on time, but that's not the most startling thing about this-- DotA has an interesting philosophy I think League could learn from. If game conditions are poor, why keep players trapped in them? It makes no sense. No one likes to be in a laggy game, why keep them? Of course this has no affect with personal issues like bad computers or someone's ISP acting up-- but on a server level, if Riot happens to be the source of the problem, then why keep players in such unsatisfactory conditions? Why not send out a global message that would make it okay to leave, telling them that Leaver Buster would not punish them, and that any reports -for AFKs- would not be sent to the Tribunal?
As for the latter, I think Mercy Vote is the best solution to a common problem, and dilemma, we've had for a long time. If someone leaves a game-- poor ISP, rage quit, emergency, griefing, whatever... It's not fair for the other four. Of course, it wouldn't be fair to have any sort of way of benefiting this player either. Mercy Vote would be the best option, making them have extra penalties (i.e. more loss of IP), while giving the other four a net loss of nothing. This would only be grantable if Leaver Buster found one person disconnected for a pre-determined amount of time, and only if the enemy team voted to allow it. Because it's the enemy team doing this, it would be much harder to exploit.
We've talked about this on GD a bit, and I know some threads are listened to, but not responded to, while others get a "Well... We're thinking about it" response...
But could we get a real discussion going about possibly, actually, implementing something like these? Maybe? Pretty please?
~Best Furry NA
