Modernize LeaverBuster

Straight Noxious·10/15/2019, 1:19:32 AM·6 votes·6,606 views

Modern Games Like Rocket League and CS have applied more reasonable ways to end a match quickly that have been ruined by afk players whether they dc or rq. Riot should only punish the first person to leave and not come back for a reasonable amount of time, say 7 minutes? then all teammates of the afk player are allowed to disconnect without punishment thus ending unfair treatment of people that dont want to play 4v5s (: (For example, if a player on C9 decides to get up and not play ,mid -LCS match, no one on c9 is going to play that one out, however only one person is getting fired from c9.)

19 Comments

rujitra10/15/2019, 1:39:27 AM3 votes

The problem is it's more likely to win a 4v5 in League than it is any other game. In fact, although I can't find a link, there was someone who did an analysis of team compositions and player strategy and found that if players, instead of complaining about the AFK player, actually worked together, there was quite a decent chance (>10%) of being able to use the remaining 4 to win the game.

And no, there's no unfair treatment - in fact, it'd be unfair to the 3 remaining teammates to turn a small, but non-negligible chance of winning into a virtual impossibility (3v5) just because you decide to leave after someone AFKs. Maybe you need to review the definition of "fair".

Imperial Pandaa10/15/2019, 1:35:39 AM2 votes

Your example is bad because they can pause and put a sub in.

zPOOPz10/15/2019, 1:52:48 AM1 votes

I assume you'll want that match to be null and void and no one would gain or lose LP as well? Because if the remaining teammates don't lose LP, but winning team do gain, then it will be abused all to hell.

deathgod510/15/2019, 10:23:39 AM1 votes

I honestly agree with you here, I hate the current leaverbuster for 3 reasons:

It doesn't punish the leaver even slightly unless your leaving pattern is so consistent that you can't ignore it any more.
It forces people to sit out a loss.
It often fails to recognize afks to begin with

However some people might argue that:

It would make winnable games with an afk losable.
It makes a good incentive for bullying and annoying people into a RQ when losing so you can leave earlier.
The system would still fail to punish afk's and nothing of the problem would be fixed.

All these are valid as well so I understand the hesitation some people might have about this.

Posui Gart10/15/2019, 10:44:37 AM1 votes

If someone left before the game started, its a remake If someone left later and you don't think there is a chance to win, you ff at 15 It would be nice to make punishments for leaving more harsh, but there is no way to detect if it was intentional or caused by connection/server/client issues.