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How to protect players by trolling team members in a lost game

HiImSyndicate·10/18/2015, 10:15:18 AM·1 votes·807 views

First i want to excuse myself, my english isnt the best i guess. But i got a recent problem with the surrender mechanic in League of Legends, based both on bad matchmaking and at least 2 "trolling" team members. Maybe you are familiar with this situation: all of your lanes and jungle losing hard all game long, and you are feeling at the 20 minute mark, this game is over, it doesnt make any sense to keep on playing. So it should be clear for all of your comrades to hit the "Yes"-Botton in surrender vote, but then the result is like 3-2. 2 guys blaming you or another person of ur team for losing the game and rather waste their time than to release the team from this suffering. But what are you going to do? Most of the time these people arent willing to let it go and keep playing until the enemys at least are showing mercy and end the game. Gametime: 40+. And then you just keep thinking: what have i done to deserve this?

In my opinion, there should be a way for players in a (hard) losing team to be able to just leave this game after some conditions were fullfilled, so they dont have to waste their limited lifetime on earth with these mean and often also toxic players without being the ones who gets punished for this. Those condition could contain somethink like:

  • the enemy team got an gold lead X at time Y
  • you, the player who just want this game to have an end, have voted at least 3 times with yes in the surrender vote in a row while the vote overall still failed to be accepted for a surrender
  • your own death times shouldnt be more then 50-X% of your teams deaths (troller in game should still be punished and not be allowed to leave without a punishment since they are the reason the team is losing as hell; could be hard to determinate if its really a troll player or just an unlucky day for this poor guy)

so pls share ur thoughts if you are interested in this topic, i have this feeling that the actuall surrender vote system is often a part of having a bad in game expericence.

6 Comments

Archon X10/18/2015, 10:47:54 AM1 votes

if the surrender mechanics bother you so much, improve at the game so you don't need to surrender so often

snOHH10/18/2015, 10:56:33 AM1 votes

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First i want to excuse myself, my english isnt the best i guess. But i got a recent problem with the surrender mechanic in League of Legends, based both on bad matchmaking and at least 2 "trolling" team members. Maybe you are familiar with this situation: all of your lanes and jungle losing hard all game long, and you are feeling at the 20 minute mark, this game is over, it doesnt make any sense to keep on playing. So it should be clear for all of your comrades to hit the "Yes"-Botton in surrender vote, but then the result is like 3-2. 2 guys blaming you or another person of ur team for losing the game and rather waste their time than to release the team from this suffering. But what are you going to do? Most of the time these people arent willing to let it go and keep playing until the enemys at least are showing mercy and end the game. Gametime: 40+. And then you just keep thinking: what have i done to deserve this?

In my opinion, there should be a way for players in a (hard) losing team to be able to just leave this game after some conditions were fullfilled, so they dont have to waste their limited lifetime on earth with these mean and often also toxic players without being the ones who gets punished for this. Those condition could contain somethink like:

  • the enemy team got an gold lead X at time Y
  • you, the player who just want this game to have an end, have voted at least 3 times with yes in the surrender vote in a row while the vote overall still failed to be accepted for a surrender
  • your own death times shouldnt be more then 50-X% of your teams deaths (troller in game should still be punished and not be allowed to leave without a punishment since they are the reason the team is losing as hell; could be hard to determinate if its really a troll player or just an unlucky day for this poor guy)

so pls share ur thoughts if you are interested in this topic, i have this feeling that the actuall surrender vote system is often a part of having a bad in game expericence.

The surrender option should be removed- atleast in ranked. Are you talking about a straight up troll who's running up a lane under tower feeding? or a person who's doing bad, but still making an attempt to farm and such? Either way- coming from Dota 2 and duo q's (preventing the surrender vote from passing) majority of the games you feel is a lost cause is winnable.

JRobin3110/19/2015, 10:24:57 PM1 votes

I agree that surrender votes are important to the game. I understand that some players think playing a game out is a waste of time. You ask what you did to deserve this, but the answer is clear: by accepting to play a game with others you made a commitment to play. Just because you think you are losing doesn't give you the right to ruin other player's experiences by spamming surrender votes. It's fine to argue for a change in the rules governing surrender votes but it is unfair to suggest that players that don't surrender are toxic simply because they disagree with you.

I could start ranting all the games I've won that players wanted to surrender where there were afks, trolls, feeders, etc. but so many players have already done that for me in numerous other threads on this topic. The bottom line is that your opinion that the game is lost or no longer fun to play is just an opinion. Just as those who think the game is won are merely expressing an opinion. The conditions you place on being allowed to leave the game are just another part of your opinion of what constitutes a lost game.