Automated "Bot" team members in "vs. AI" are a real pain!

No IDont ThinkSo··1 votes·670 views

For those people who can't easily go 1v5 in "vs. AI" mode, especially intermediate, it makes it frustrating and difficult when 1-3 of your teammates aren't even there. I have found that in my last handful of games, there are ALWAYS bots. You can usually spot them when they don't respond, buy only one item, or boots + magic resist or armor only. They continually feed, bolstering the AI's items/gold/exp quickly, and leave lanes open ot be quickly destroyed, which makes the game MUCH harder.

After the game I report them as "Intentional Feeding" and add that I believe they are bots in the description. Is there a better report option I can use? I would suggest a "Player May Be A Bot" option. This could be used to quickly and permanently delete bot accounts upon verifying their bot status.

I know this may not mean much to most people who love PvP only, but for us players that mainly do "vs. AI" it can be a real pain. The only bots that should be causing me trouble are the ones on the opposite team.

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The Golden Stag1 votes

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No IDont ThinkSo1 votes

I have to respectfully disagree. I feel that it does harm people.

People who are just starting out or are not that good, myself included, find the game to be a lot more frustrating when it's 2 or 3 of us vs. 5. Add to that the bot players heavily feeding and making the enemy bots even harder.

When this occurs, people start getting mad and cursing at other players out of frustrating, cursing the bots (because they don't realize its not another player), complaining about the game in general, etc. Not to mention, there is no way to surrender when bots won't vote.

Compare this to AFK or intentional feeding, both of which are considered harmful to the community and have report options. Bot players are pretty much both of these combined, so I think that fact speaks for itself.

The bottom line is, this kind of behavior makes the game much less enjoyable for most players I meet, therefore I would submit that it is harmful.

StickyOctopi1 votes

I'd say it was an issue if it wasn't incredibly easy to 1v5. Teammates literally could dc and you just push mid and end in 15 mins because the bots are too low leveled and don't build items properly.

You should still never lose a bot game no matter what. If it were pvp it'd be a different story.

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