Can we get better detection and harsher punishment for afking?

red no red·12/28/2019, 2:23:38 AM·5 votes·7,181 views

So I just played a game where the support died early, they were out of position but the ADC could have totally saved them with their Heal but didn't. Afterwards the support pinged their unused heal and that was enough to make the ADC afk. So we play the game and eventually lose but imagine my surprise when they didn't get flagged for being afk.

I feel like if someone doesn't get exp for 5+ minutes at a time, don't leave the base, and is level 7 when the rest of the team is in the mid teens that should be an automatic flag. How is this not getting caught?

5 Comments

MrFawknSunshine12/28/2019, 2:50:14 AM2 votes

report for afk ?

Jennifer1712/28/2019, 7:41:23 PM2 votes

what... you dont think 5x20 min leaverbuster is enough to stop ppl from afking? i think its a very harsh punishement that will teach anyone! /s

rujitra12/28/2019, 3:16:07 AM1 votes

They may still be flagged as AFK. The X only appears if they’re flagged as a *leaves * - I.e completely disconnected.

Sorostaran12/31/2019, 6:16:28 AM1 votes

For what it's worth, the second tier (much looser) AFK detection below the Leaver detection is very real.

I sometimes play three accounts at the same time in Intro co-op for FWotD since in Intro co-op you can 1v5 the bots playing with your feet. On very rare occasions, I would recall on one of the accounts and forget about it for maybe 2 minutes because I was busy cheapshotting the quickly respawning bots at their Nexus turrets for the 50+ kills on the primary account trying to end the game.

After the game the tertiary account would get no exp and no quest completion (despite being 6/0/19, 9/0/24, or whatever, still doing 5x better than the script bots plaguing co-op these days), but also no leave. They only mark you a leaver for extreme AFKness, but they will mark you an AFKer for much less. You can try this yourself to see how sensitive the AFK detection is. It doesn't take much idling to get marked.

As far as whether Rito uses AFK detection for punishment goes, I don't know, but I think a report for AFK coupled with AFK detection ought to at least constitute an automatically valid report.

[zombie-nunu-bummed]

themachamp12/31/2019, 8:55:44 PM1 votes

Leaver buster penalty is either really harsh or not a problem. If you are time strapped then it is a hard lesson. If you just dual screen/minimize etc and wait out 5-20 min timer by doing school work, paying a bill, replying to emails, etc then it doesn't really matter at all because you can have the time run during time you wouldn't be playing league anyways.