An answer to the issue with AFK's?

lllWincinlll·7/28/2015, 5:55:23 AM·1 votes·274 views

We all know that feeling when a teammate doesn't connect at all to a game and then spending 40 minutes doing a 4v5.

Well, I think a good way to prevent that would be to implement a way where when people are actually connecting to the loading screen, they have a press a ready button and everyone has to press it in order for the game to start.

If a player doesn't press their button within a certain time, the actual game won't start and all the players will be sent back to the launcher. It is very similar to the queue screen before the champion select but the difference is that it is in the actual loading screen in the game.

I think this will prevent dc's and ruined games for a lot of players overall so I hope you can all provide feedback and perhaps we can solve this issue of people not disconnecting to games at all.

1 Comments

Sarutobi7/28/2015, 12:11:46 PM1 votes

Something like this has been brought up before. But things in question would be what the time limit would be? i mean ill admit ive gone to the bathroom, or grab something to eat/drink and have the game already loaded. This would make people needing to stay by their computers when they could be getting things during that wait time.

Also what would happen to people who purposely doesnt click it so that the team doesnt have to play? i mean if you and your friends, or the people who you are queued with doesnt like the opposing teams comp whats stopping someone from not clicking so it doesnt affect the win/loses especially in Rank matches?

Plus i would think they need to redo the way the game matches work if they do something like this. As far as i know once that game starts, and champ select is loading that is the match, and if the system is how it is now, it has to declare a winner and a loser side. there is no such thing as a forfeit, or game did not start to let the system know the match didnt officially start, so that means more time to overhaul the work needed to get this going which could take weeks/months/years!

While ill admit i dont like AFKers in my matches if something as easy as this could be implemented it would have been a long time ago!