Evolution of Chat !

Night77Wolf·Jul 7, 2015·15 votes·1,971 views

hello summoners ... when I chat with my friend I wait for him to answer me, I do not know if he is typing or not. one time I was wait my friend to answer me, he was typing a long sentence, then I go out of the game, after that he send to me the message when I out of the game.

this is what I see when my friend is online or he is typing http://im45.gulfup.com/fBYQGa.png

I hope Riot makes a sign for typing like these :-

Sign 1 http://im45.gulfup.com/fnpcoi.png

Sign 2 http://im45.gulfup.com/V1Z3hG.png

or any design Riot makes.

I want the glorious evolution for this amazing game.

I hope my suggestion is helpful, thank you.

17 Comments

TrollasJul 14, 20154 votes

Give this man a Cookie item 2009

RueianJul 14, 20152 votes

Friends are myths.

Shad0wMasTRJul 17, 20152 votes

Dam Dam DAMMMmm xD (I'm so lonely item 3073 Fiddlesticks )

Uliadyen420Jul 17, 20152 votes

I don't have any friends item 3070 Amumu

Genghis Kh4nJul 21, 20152 votes

Go to facebook and add random people. "Friend" random people. Heimerdinger

VoldsonJul 18, 20152 votes

summoner 6 Actually i get the same problem, so i think that is a SUBERB idea that should be hardly implemented in the game and it don't take so long to make :D summoner 4

Matthias9119Jul 18, 20152 votes

Would be a nice feature as long as it doesn't absolutely destroy Riot's network. Because they don't want you to get the IP addresses of people you're chatting with, anything like this would have to be handled through Riot's servers.

Although sending/receiving "hey, I'm typing now in this chat window" updates doesn't seem difficult -- and individually it's not -- doing that for literally millions of concurrent users might take a large amount of server and network resources.

Fr0zen ShenJul 18, 20151 votes

Do you even WhatsApp FailFish And sending 1 message is a bigger update than sending an update that your friend is typing... Typing True or False easy as that.

Matthias9119Jul 18, 20152 votes

I'm 99% sure those apps send those updates directly back and forth between users. Riot can't do that, because it opens up security holes where you can get someone's IP address, which then allows you to do things like DDOS them during a match.

Also, those services don't also need to be serving data for millions of ongoing realtime strategy games. Your message takes half a second longer to arrive on WhatsApp because their network is overloaded? Whatever, most people wouldn't even notice. The packet saying you activated Flash takes half a second longer to arrive? You just died and lost your match.

And sending 1 message is a bigger update than sending an update that your friend is typing...

It's FAR more efficient to send large packets than small ones. Often the limiting factor for routers these days is dealing with a bajillion tiny little packets that contain almost no information. In fact, that is what most DDOS attacks do, overload a company's routers with a constant stream of useless packets they have to deal with. Having to literally send millions of these back and forth per second could be a huge strain on their network infrastructure. This is the same reason (I'm pretty sure) that they don't offer a "ping meter" in their client like people keep asking for. They'd basically be DDOSing themselves.