Ban by IP address

cjp6050·Jan 16, 2017·3 votes·8,706 views

It's impossible to get out of Bronze with all the Trolls and afk players. I don't even care that much about winning to be honest. I just want to have a good time and I can't when the game is over before it begins. I want to toss the idea out there that if a player gets reported x amount of times (trolling or intentional feed) in lets say a month they get a month long IP ban.

It would need to have a more in depth review process to correctly implement but would greatly improve gameplay.

What do you guys think?

14 Comments

AeroWaffleJan 16, 20177 votes

Public IPs are often shared by several computers.

College dorms for example.

DrCyanideJan 16, 20173 votes

Bingo. One IP ban could ban an entire college campus. The collateral damage is too high.

scazzmanJan 16, 20172 votes

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Bingo. One IP ban could ban an entire college campus. The collateral damage is too high.

players shouldnt be playing on public wifi anyway.

LeafSteelJan 16, 20171 votes

Why not?

SukishooJan 16, 20171 votes

some people have to for various reasons.

DrCyanideJan 16, 20171 votes

Who says it's public wifi?

In the dorms we had wired connections, but they were still all tied up the same IP address. Anyone playing on campus or in one dorm would have banned the lot.

dotHackSignsNov 4, 20171 votes

When I was at UCLA my dorm internet was insanely good. I had like 7 ping at the time when they use to show ping. People thought I was from Riot HQ.

ZombiemasterJan 16, 20173 votes

First, something like this would definitely need to have valid reports trigger the punishment. Just receiving reports is not good enough as they could very easily be false reports. So, receiving enough valid reports would trigger a punishment. The thing is, though, this already happens, it just isn't as fast as most people would like in most cases, for intentionally feeding that is.

When it comes to intentionally feeding, or trolling in other ways, Riot wants to be absolutely sure that the player in question really is intentionally feeding and not just having a bad game so they don't punish any innocent players. Because of this, the process of punishing intentional feeders tends to take longer, causing some players to get away with it a lot longer than they should, but I can tell you that people do get punished for intentionally feeding.

As far as IP bans, they are fairly ineffective. For one, it's not that difficult to change your IP address. Many routers change their IP address simply by turning them off then on again, so it's pretty simple to avoid IP bans. However, even if it weren't, IP bans come with collateral damage. Years ago Riot actually did issue IP bans, but one time they banned the IP of a college dorm, causing several innocent players to be banned for the actions of one.

Omnistone KarmaJan 16, 20172 votes

Idk man, it seems like a great idea at first, I admit that But maybe he / she has spent hundreds of dollars in that game which is all lost then, poof gone, bye bye Cy@ ( For a month )

The player might have ruined it for himself / herself but it's still harsh..

Might be a better idea to just give him a normal ban for a month, the player will probably get the message and has to play at a new account if he wants to play that month with an account which is very limited

ZialeskaJan 16, 20173 votes

But maybe he / she has spent hundreds of dollars in that game which is all lost then, poof gone, bye bye Cy@

people lose all this when they get perma banned... buying hundreds of dollars of stuff in a game doesn't mean shit to the company. If you deserve the ban you get it, they already have your money.

However the IP isn't a good Idea. Agreed.

ph1234kJan 16, 20171 votes

Even IPs from private ISPs are generally shared by DHCP, so you just get your neighbours banned once your lease expires. Also that means one dumb child in a house can ruin even a professional player's account.

IP addresses just aren't unique enough to ban.