So I was playing some games the other night when my Spectrum internet went out in my area. I was in the middle of a ranked game when it went out and was not able to reconnect. I come back today to play and was placed in a lower priority queue. How is this my fault? Can I get this punishment off me? There's no reason we should be punished due to random internet outages.
ModThe Djinn4 votesThere's actually no way for Riot to tell a legitimate internet outage from you disconnecting your network or force-quitting League -- all they know is that the signal they were getting from you stopped.
It's for this reason that LeaverBuster can't give out anything worse than a time ban -- it's possible that every DC was entirely out of your control. But it does give punishments for leaving games, because -- again -- it can't tell why, and it would be too easy to simply claim an internet issue whenever you rage-quit a game (not saying you did -- just saying why it can't do that).
KrimsonAngel2 voteshttps://www.ksat.com/business/spectrum-customers-nationwide-dealing-with-internet-issues
Yes there is. It's a reported issue.
Imperial Pandaa1 votesAnd?
Your team was punished because of it. Why shouldn't you be punished as well?
And Riot obviously has a system that lets them know who your internet provider is./s
Dragfin1 voteshttps://www.ksat.com/business/spectrum-customers-nationwide-dealing-with-internet-issues
Yes there is. It's a reported issue.
Then stay off till they get it fixed. It's your fault because you log in with that knowledge. Punishment well deserved.
KrimsonAngel2 votesLol reading these responses makes me laugh at how naive people are. My internet had a random outage that was not reported until a few hours later. During that time my modem didn't allow me to connect to the DNS server which meant I had 0 internet access. That meant It was impossible for me to play any matches during my "knowledge of the outage." The report came out a few hours later. Please do not attempt to act high and mighty like you know how things play out. I asked that RIOT would remove my penalty because of something outside my control which I could obviously proof was true through documentation.
afmghost2 votesLol reading these responses makes me laugh at how naive people are. My internet had a random outage that was not reported until a few hours later. During that time my modem didn't allow me to connect to the DNS server which meant I had 0 internet access. That meant It was impossible for me to play any matches during my "knowledge of the outage." The report came out a few hours later. Please do not attempt to act high and mighty like you know how things play out. I asked that RIOT would remove my penalty because of something outside my control which I could obviously proof was true through documentation.
Welcome to NA, where people are toxic tools while pretending to be society's mesiahs or some shit. No wonder the boards don't get anything done. These hypocrites shut down anything they know might hurt them in the long run.
zPOOPz1 votesYou don't get LPQ for 1 or even 3 afk. If once in a blue moon you get internet outage like this, you won't get penalized. I should know. I've had irl emergencies a few times (more than 3) and once get LPQ. You would have had other times you afk without any penalties as well and that is your chances.
While this may or may not be within your control, 9 people still get penalized (wasting time) because of it and you must bare some of that consequence by having your time wasted.
Silent Gravity1 votesThe Leaverbuster system has a lot of leeway built into it for this exact reason. Riot doesn't want to punish people for random internet outages.
So, instead of thinking of this as a punishment for your net going down this time, think of it as a punishment for one of the other times you left a game that was given leeway.
