Pick roles before we queue up?

Commit Sudoku·9/18/2013, 10:46:28 PM·1 votes·745 views

I don't know about you guys, but I believe that this is a feature that should have been added to MOBAs a long time ago. If you queue up this way you can better spend your time in champion select instead of arguing who goes where and all players will get be able to play roles they are comfortable with. So what if it takes longer to find a queue I would rather wait a little longer and get a role I prefer rather than wait 14 seconds to get a role I am not comfortable or "good" in. So what does the community think? Is this just me?

10 Comments

Akanoth9/18/2013, 11:08:56 PM1 votes

I think it's a neat idea, never thought of it. The problem is the horrible wait time while you wait for someone that will queue up wanting support.

Yaldrik9/18/2013, 11:14:49 PM1 votes

Lots and lots of problems with this. For example, how would you enforce someone going to a certain lane? I could queue up for support and just be a jerk and go top lane. The only way I could see this maybe, probably not working is if queuing for a role was really just sort of suggestion. Example: I would like to play mid, so I queue for mid. Then the system finds other players who queued for the other roles/lanes; however, champion select still functions as normal. Again its the same problem. People will just pick the queue with the lowest queue time and then go for a different role. There are many other problems with this design for moba's that I don't really want to go into.

TLDR: This solution has been thought of before and picked apart and just won't work. UNLESS you can find some surefire way to work around all the problems surrounding it.