Petition for those of us with high latency to be matched with others alike

Sassmast3r··2 votes·364 views

You know what really ticks me off? When it starts raining. You know why? Because where I live, if it rains, it affects my internet!

Literally nothing in this game frustrates me more than knowing my capabilities, but not being able to say "I tried my best" at the end of the game, regardless of win or loss... all because my internet prevented me from being able to play to my best ability.

See that teammate over there Karma? She needs a shield. You have one, right? Go use it on h... oops. She's dead. Don't you feel like shit now? You had one chance, and you blew it.

Honestly, it's an issue that can't be fixed for those of us who live in the countryside; we can't prevent acts of God.

HOWEVER, I know for a fact that Riot is capable of implementing a system that matches those of us with satellite internet up with each other. It would make the game feel a little better if I knew that indeed, everyone I played with and against truly knew the immeasurable pain that is satellite internet on a rainy day.

I mean, come on, you do this for ranking to ensure "fairness", and it's already "unfair" enough that we all have to deal with unpredictably bad internet. Can't you at least let us play with each other?

3 Comments

My Sea Cow1 votes

Honestly I think it would be really hard to near impossible for Riot to match people based on their ping. How can they know in the finding a game queue that you will have 100 ping but your mid laner has 50 and adc has 200? May be a silly question but how are you using your internet? Meaning are you connecting wirelessly? I always had bad ping when I did that....but connected straight to the modem and it's great.

Kallian1 votes

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Honestly I think it would be really hard to near impossible for Riot to match people based on their ping. How can they know in the finding a game queue that you will have 100 ping but your mid laner has 50 and adc has 200? May be a silly question but how are you using your internet? Meaning are you connecting wirelessly? I always had bad ping when I did that....but connected straight to the modem and it's great.

i think he means riot should add a ping tracker during the matches, and/or during queue time so if you have a higher average ping, you get placed in a different queue

Sassmast3r1 votes

I use an ethernet cable right to my modem.

It's not an issue with my modem, or how I'm connected, but since my internet is through a satellite, and water droplets (rain) interfere with the signal it's trying to receive, the latency increases dramatically whenever it rains, or is super foggy outside, and it's not under my control.

All I want is to be matched with other people in the same situation as I am, so that it feels like matches are a little more fair.

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