So draft and aram have a dodging problem. Institute a login timer to punish account cycling

chabotj1·11/13/2019, 8:38:16 AM·1 votes·1,817 views

I recently complained about the incredible dodge rate in draft champ select compared to ranked. I was informed that people cycle accounts, which is insane for an unranked match, until you remember draft players likely play aram, where cycling is highly beneficial.

I'd like to propose a login timer in addition to the queue dodge timer. Anybody that logs out during champ select or in the first five seconds of the loading screen and then immediately logs back in on the same IP address, regardless of account, gets a 90 second timeout; with the timeout growing and decaying at a similar rate to queue dodging.

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TrulyBland11/13/2019, 9:13:11 AM1 votes

and then immediately logs back in on the same IP address

That would ultimately have the same problems of IP bans. Namely, that they are easy to circumvent for individuals while being very harsh on larger shared networks. A simpler solution which doesn't rely on IP would be to only make the dodge timer count down while you are online with that account. I'm sure that, too, has some problems with it, but conceivably less so than IP based punishments.

dxDSmiley11/13/2019, 9:16:26 AM1 votes

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Anybody that logs out during champ select or in the first five seconds of the loading screen and then immediately logs back in on the same IP address, regardless of account, gets a 90 second timeout; with the timeout growing and decaying at a similar rate to queue dodging.

Unfortunately it's too easy to go around that rule by just waiting 6 seconds (or any period of time that is necessary) after logging out. And if you make that waiting period too long, it will affect other players as well. I didn't realize that queue dodging was that big of a problem though. If it truly is, you are right in giving suggestions on how to deal with the issue.