Unused IP should be capped at 10,000 to reduce IP farming bots

Kraythax··1 votes·645 views

I have been in several games where it's obvious that one or more other players were bots. There are a combination of factors that make it obvious. Any of which alone might just be a new player but together its obvious.

  1. They don't say anything.
  2. They don't call lanes.
  3. They usually feed because the bot can play constantly and farm IP win or lose so it doesn't care.
  4. They don't respond to requests for assistance or grouping up or targeting objectives. They just keep farming even at level 16.

I wish Riot would find a way to find and clamp down on these people because they make the game unplayable. I don't want to report people just having a bad game, I have had my share of those, but this is stupid ridiculous. It's much worse after Midnight in NA.

I think as a means to curb it, unused IP should be capped at 10,000 so that these bots cant farm enough IP to buy a whole slew of characters then sell the account online. Also Riot should add a report for "possible bot" and finally there should be a mechanism yo flash a dialog on the screen at some random location, perhaps with a captcha after death to have the player confirm he isn't a bot if the an intelligent algorithm detects possible bot behavior.

9 Comments

Warlord Scrap8 votes

summoner name change cost like 13900 so itd have to be more than 10000

ModThe Djinn6 votes

As someone who legitimately has had over 100k unused IP from actual games? I'm not sold on this idea. :P

èGirl Nami5 votes

The only bots I saw was on Aram/Cop-vs-AI

And rarely did I run to them on Aram, never saw any bots in Summoner's Rift

UnboundHades3 votes

No just no and to avoid bots just get better at the game

PixelPicksTW3 votes

Anyone who farms IP on rift is wasting their time. Howling Abyss and Treeline are much faster. Besides, have you ever stopped to consider that maybe they're just bad?

Airbane982 votes

considering name changes cost over 13000 this would make name changes not possible

TheViper79111 votes

Nice try, botters will just automate purchases from the store or log in manually and purchase some champs. I would advise not choosing a career in security or I.T.

Aeszarck1 votes

But I've been saving up 26k IP for the Chroma IP sale that only happens twice a year :(

Kraythax1 votes

Perhaps there can be an algorithm to limit only if you are having a good game now and then rather than a hard cap.

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