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Romco·2/17/2014, 11:28:53 PM·22 votes·3,082 views

Hello I'm Romantic Metro an avid LoL player who enjoys all aspects of LoL. While I enjoy Summoners Rift I do love playing the other modes more. They are not everyone's cup of tea but for some like me we enjoy playing the other modes. Dominion (uh oh the D word) is a mode I enjoy extremely. It's different and more focused on fighting than farming (My favorite part of League.) I digress on the glorification on dominion I do have an issue to bring up. I'm sure some of the rioters are aware like ManWolfAxeBoss. MWAB is our go to for dominion needs, but however he has said so himself that it's out of his parameters to deal with. I'm talking bots.

http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=4026014&highlight=mwab

We know the history of botters in online games and mobas. We know they happen here in LoL. The worst case was during custom games they would just farm xp/ip. However when that was taken away.

http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3832701&highlight=custom+match+ip

Some botters got clever and went into dominion players vs ai. They went into intermediate dominion 3-4 bots at a time. They took heal/ghost or heal/exhaust as their summoner spells and had two names and numbers. It was atrociously hard to play and carry.

However it doesn't stop there. I and my others within the dominion community have noticed when queuing with newer players to help teach them dominion and its meta we noticed these bots started showing up. Entry level bots in actual blind pick ques! I understand botting will happen but this has been happening a lot. So on behalf of the dominion community which has an already small base we need this problem addressed. I know you guys are busy but you should take this as an insult more than anything. An insult to the fact that botters are able to take advantage of your modes like this and infest your actual ques.

This may be "just dominion" but the fact that botters are doing this and ruining the fun of your player base should get you mad. It's a slap in the face to what you guys stand for. So i'm appealing to that standard in the hope you guys can address this. I understand dominion is flawed and we've both as a community and your company have been through the song and dance about ranked/resources etc. However this is something that requires your response ASAP. Please I'm really hoping that you as a company can restore some faith in dominion that these botters can be taken care of.

Sincerely, A LoL fan, dominioneer, and avid flirter, Romantic Metro

PS: Did it hurt? ... When you fell from heaven!

20 Comments

AMYS GRAVE9/6/2014, 4:35:23 AM7 votes

If we can get a script to ban even 20% of the bots, that's 20% of their revenue stream gone, eventually it won't be a viable business model to bot accounts. We could also add a bot report option to catch them so we can report them, and to mitigate false bans after a few reports they have to do some captchas to prove they are real. Then the people don't get banned but the companies have to hire people to do captchas for the bots, again cutting into their bottom line. So after a few bot reports people have to prove they are real, and after a lot of bot reports they get banned. This will destroy bots quickly, leave real people in and leave it to the community to report them and take charge of dominion again. I would like to play a game of dominion with fewer than 5 bots at some point... (i'm lv 23 now)

Johanna Rage9/19/2014, 10:07:51 PM4 votes

i agree, once a day i play a quick dominion game vs the AI just to get my first win of the day. However, i noticed after a couple of horrible games that the teamates were not just your regular newbies that try their best. Rito please, this needs to be attended to

Melaa8/17/2014, 5:33:15 AM4 votes

This has gotten way out of hand, I believe its getting worse too. Last week wasn't even as bad as this, seems like every game I get in there's at least one bot on my team or the enemy's team!

Exvoto8/16/2014, 5:10:59 PM4 votes

Bots in Dominion has gotten exponentially worse this last week. I played a game in pvp Dominion in which I was the only person actually playing. The other 9 champs were bots. I find the mornings the worst. The presence of bots in the game is demoralizing and frustrating. It is a poor game experience for anyone playing with or against them. Their actions are predicable and ineffective. I have been reporting them as "not communicating with the team", whether they were on my team or not. I hope Riot is able to address this issue. The game is being ruined.

Bauchelain7/29/2015, 6:22:54 PM2 votes

I just played a Dominion match with my room mate... AND 8 FUCKING BOTS. In PvP. But there's no option to report cheaters/botters because Riot is delusional and think they're infallible (which anyone who's requested help from "Support" already knows).

Dark Hero Brett12/5/2014, 10:20:44 PM1 votes

The problem seems to be getting worse as a lot of the times now in Dominion there are only at best two humans on a time with a bunch of bots, this needs to be addressed right away or anyone how did play dominion will quit from frustration of having bots and any player who wants to try dominion will not have a good time, thus scaring away new potential dominion players. Why can't they just go onto draft dominion no one played that

PsychoSim12/6/2014, 9:06:17 PM1 votes

Pretty much any time I jump into a Dominion or TT game there's a few bots. It stopped me from playing those maps all together. I just wish they'd figure out a way to stop it... I mean... can't we ask a question or have a bot deleted, assign a Admin for the game to restart Queues with all the humans or suspected Humans?

DJJakeRyan3/10/2015, 5:08:06 PM1 votes

Played a domion game this morning with 8 bots, and one other real person on the other team. The bots blew their heals before leaving the shop.

Domion is clearly unplayable and looks as if it was unplayable last year too....

Colon of Cancer5/15/2015, 6:30:53 PM1 votes

Just played a game with 4 bots on my team and 3 on the enemy team. DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. It is not difficult to identify these bots, as they always pick the same champs and buy the same items... I know immediately which accounts are bots and report them. How is it that this goes unnoticed?!?!?!

Sawsers5/15/2015, 6:38:05 PM1 votes

Didn't they say they were working on it like 2 years ago? Unfortunately, if it's not Summoner's Rift, Riot doesn't care.

steampig7/17/2015, 1:05:31 PM1 votes

It happens on SR now too btw. I just played my very first Dominion Game...it was a 1v1. The other 4 players on each team were bots...playing free champions...using summoner spells barrier/heal. Oh and their names...all their names were just two random words. I reported all of them...but that probably does nothing but make my reports worth less. I want an answer on this. Either a "yes we're working on it" or "we don't care deal with it". Until someone from Riot says something on this subject in the form of an announcement on the screen after logging in, I'm not spending any money.

Malkav Cobalt8/11/2015, 7:31:39 AM1 votes

This needs bumped. My time with Dominion when it first came out was the best time I ever had with LoL.

And now that memory is ruined by this nonsense.

Literally queued up for PVP, not VS. AI, and I was the only human in the match.

Fix this. Disable IP rewards for Dominion, have a "Not a Robot" check for anyone who enters a Dominion PVP queue. Anything.

Hell, I bet if you got rid of the bots, you'd never have "Server Full" issues again.

The motivation is clear. IP. The ball's in your court now, Riot and PVP.net.

StickyStallion8/15/2015, 5:40:00 AM1 votes

its atrocious how many bots in dominion, on my smurf. I was literally the only real person in every single game

Duke Dryfocker10/8/2014, 8:18:02 PM1 votes

Bump for MegaJustice!!!

Duke Dryfocker10/9/2014, 3:36:34 AM1 votes

Bump!

Jaghatai10/11/2014, 7:47:47 AM1 votes

Just played yet another game with 2 Bots on my team

Sunforged10/31/2014, 1:40:12 PM1 votes

Just got done with a game where there was 3 bots on my team and 2 bots on the opposing team. Dominion as a game mode is 100% ruined until something is done about this. I feel like if this was happening in ranked games we would see something from Riot addressing the issue. But it isn't urgent because it is Dominion...