Simple Question, please Riot just need a simple answer...

IXI R3V3L IXI·2/12/2014, 5:14:52 AM·1 votes·470 views

Just want to ask if there's any plans on Riot changing the game modes on other regions to make them an equal experience as NA is for the players all around the world, and not on selected servers. I live outside continental US and changed servers to LAN to check them out. The change was immense connection wise. Before those server where online i'd usually played @ ~128-135 ms, but the LAN servers provided me with a solid 55-58 ms. Even though both connections are usable, it's a notable improvement in the reaction time one can achieve. But here's the problem I developed with this situation: LAN servers offer limited game modes and functionality compared to other servers. No draft pick on SR, No T.T., very flammable community, and a lot of trolls. Honestly, i don't give too much attention to the last 2 because I consider myself a casual player, and always try to keep my calm cause getting angry because of a game imo is a stupid way to play.

The fact that there's no draft pick and especially no TT put me in an awkward situation since those where the playlist my friends and I usually played. This meant for us choosing between a borderline acceptable connection and the game as we learned and loved, or a great, reliable connection but without any control of our game experience. We usually ended up filling teams (we are a group of 3) in blind pick and then having to do our best to get the people to play or at least to not give up just because they fed heavily their opponent and wanted to switch lanes. Sometimes (this being about twice every night of playing) we even switched just to keep them from going afk. We had to pay to get back to NA, so we could play TT. It worked for a while but lately we have been lagging every day, and we kinda miss the good connection even though we find that the community here is better than the one on LAN. As a latino, I can tell most of us are too feisty and can become toxic with almost no provocation. Sorry for the long post..

TL;DR = Is the LAN server getting TT at any moment? Group of friends loved the improved connection but had pay to get back to NA because of limited playlists in that server mixed with some toxic community.

3 Comments

Sir ArmaMalum2/12/2014, 2:53:45 PM2 votes

While I do not have the exact post on me (sorry), I believe I read somewhere that the lack of TT and other matchmaking features was simply the lack of players in the region. i.e. If TT was enabled it wouldn't work well due to the incredibly small number of people that would be playing that mode at any given time, meaning you would just play against the same people over and over. I'm very sorry you don't have the best connection to NA but I hope you guys at least have fun while you're here :)