Need option to make players bots
I think we need an option to change a player to a bot.
What I mean by that, is that there should be an option to vote one of the team's players to be changed into a bot. If the other 4 players of the team vote for 1 player to become a bot, he would be replaced with a bot player, and unable to control his/her character anymore.
I assume everyone has had games with leavers, dc:s, feeders, afkers and trolls. Usually these games end in loses, because the team eventually loses interest. When you get an intentional feeder in your game, and you see it only after the game has started, there is nothing you can do. Lets assume there is 1 toxic player in 50% of the games. That means 50% of the games aren't really fun. If you happen to get the toxic player in your team, you probably won't enjoy the game. If the other team gets the toxic player, you might win too easily, and again, you won't enjoy the game.
What if you could turn that 1 feeder into a safe playing bot, that tries to play safe and support the team a bit? I'm not saying the bot should carry the game, players should do that. The bot should not be too good for the team to win for having the bot, but it should be better than an afk or feeder.
I think the toxic behavior could go down if this was implemented. This would take the control from the toxic players to non toxic players. The players would feel they can do something about toxic behavior. Assuming there are still more decent players than toxic players, the decent players could be having much more fun.
The way I imagine this would work, is that there is an computer icon next to ignore icon. When you press that icon, you vote for that champion to become bot controlled (you can choose only one). If champion gets all 4 players to wish he was bot controlled, he becomes bot controlled. He can still chat and try to reason why he should get into the game. If he starts to spam or harass, he can be ignored.
Possible fixes:
AFK: A team member needs to go somewhere for few minutes. A team member loses internet connection, and cannot connect to the game anymore. A team member has decided someone is playing poorly, and the game is not worth his time.
Toxic play A team member is trying to lose game on purpose IE feeding intentionally or standing on the fountain. A team member is trolling IE buying 100 wards and spamming them around base, or playing AP Riven.
Possible problems:
One player thrown out because played too bad and others just got frustrated
- The bot should not be worth a player. Even a decent player should contribute more to victory than this bot. Anyway if all the 4 members of the team think this player is worse than the bot, this player would have much better time doing something else instead of trying to please the angry team.
4 people premade throwing out 1 solo player
- Would this happen often enough for it to be a problem?
Anything I missed? Would you like or hate the feature? Comments?
