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Tired of dodging queues (alternate solution?)

Vlktor Bot·10/27/2014, 1:54:34 PM·1 votes·701 views

As you clearly have experienced, in normals whoever calls the position receives it, but sometimes it is different for everyone. Usually in bronze-silver, where literally 3/4 of the entire league population are, they tend to be younger, 14 year old people, instant-locking and tending to be a bit of an asshole. Today, I was forced to dodge 3 times out of six game because people were being stubborn. Alternate Solution: Wait for ALL the people to go in, type position and (don't display messages yet) and then finally post them in the order of the message (first to last that the server received), then we can go from there. There would be much less arguing because you can't argue with the machine.

tl;dr: tired of dodging at low-elo because of stubborn players and want a fair system to dictate positions.

Now that I wrote this story to vent my frustration of my entire league experience, I do sound pretty stupid, but open to suggestions. xD

3 Comments

Aerothal10/27/2014, 1:57:15 PM1 votes

if you play blindpick anyways, why not play teambuilder?

Sadistic Cheese10/27/2014, 2:08:59 PM1 votes

oooooor we just remove blind pick and make Normal Draft Mode the standard. I think that might work just as well.

In Blind Pick there's just so little time, so miscommunication can be a real problem. In Draft you have the entirety of the banning phase to hash things out before picks begin, and if the problem-person in question is third or fourth pick you have longer than that. Everything moves so fast in Blind Pick that sometimes you barely have time to make sure every role is filled before it's locked in and you scramble to set your runes and masteries and summoners if you're not playing the same role from your last game. This happens a lot in other MOBAs as well, it was the bane of my life yesterday in Smite. (so many gems lost because of weird god choices....so, so many gems lost...)

Your idea is good, however I think the problem is not just the people, but also the method in which we lock in our choices. Blind Pick's time to choose a champion is just too short if there's any kind of argument or problem that needs to be resolved. If anything we should be asking for a longer timer in blind pick.

johnsaucier10/27/2014, 5:19:47 PM1 votes

Yeah I no longer use anything but teambuilder because blind pick is simply a horrible way to do picks. You get the person who joins and types one letter and expects that everyone else know that if he types a s t m or j he should be granted that position over someone who typed out jungle or jg. I think the whole thing is stupid. And worse still are people who come in and are late to pick a position and lock-in and refuse to change or dodge because of this.

Of course its even worse when someone doesn't get their way goes all the way into the game just so they can feed or dance in the base while the rest of the team tries to salvage this obvious loss, or they just run around and steal the jungle never doing anything else but feed.

Yes always fun playing with spoiled children who cannot deal with not getting their way.

As far as I'm concerned blind pick should have been removed the day teambuilder was released. There should not be both modes, since teambuilder though flawed is still a better alternative than blind picks.