AFK problems

Lv5 Dunsparce·12/21/2015, 6:18:52 PM·1 votes·369 views

I bought a 3 day IP booster one day ago, hoping to play a lot of games (not even win them all or even half) and still have fun because im still getting my moneys worth. But today, i played 5 matches consisting in ranked, poro king, and normals on summoners rift. All of these games, I have had a teammate afk from the game either from raging because of his own performances, or others on our teams performances. I know for a matter of fact that everyone in the community hates playing with these kinds of people, but Riot Games does nothing about this problem. This really makes me upset though, because I just bought a 3 day IP booster and it really goes to waste when a game is unwinnable due to people like this. I realize that there are a lot of people reporting others in this game, and the scripting problem is getting worse, but not a lot of people get banned for these offences and really should. There is a leaver buster system for the people who rage quit, but Riot games should pay more attention to the people that afk at base but still moves so they dont get any penalty for not playing the game. I dont know what talking about it on here will do, but i hope someone reads it on here and it gets big.

2 Comments

Dark Nephthys12/21/2015, 6:30:37 PM2 votes

Yea I had a game with an AFK yesterday. I was tired of losing so went top with Shyvana and saw I was up against a Renekton which is generally a skill match up that can be anyone's win (Usually Renekton is stronger, until Shyvana's level 9 and then Shyvana should easily win that) but our Evelynn ran out of the fountain as soon as the game started, pinged for help at krugs and then ran around looking for people and found renekton....She tried to 1v1 Renekton and then of course died, and then left the game...

So Renekton came back to lane with first blood, doran's blade, long sword and 3 health pots and level 2 and I couldn't even farm since he had such a strong lead.

KobefoSho12/22/2015, 4:55:25 PM

As I understand it, the goal is a self reporting system for AFK's. By that I mean every players in a game should report the AFK. This would result in 9 reports per game. Perhaps I just don't understand but it seems like a sinple fix to do the following:

If there are 4 or more reports of a player for AFK then:

  1. Instantly credit all LP lost back to the losing team. Winning team keeps their LP gain.
  2. Immediately, extend timer of any boosts.
  3. After confirming the offense, reward the reporters and punish the offender.

It is also my position, right or wrong, that its the responsability of the players to report each and every AFK. I know there are some good excuses and teported players can appeal for them, but without reporting every offense, we are ruining the game for ourselves.

We can all post stories about the instances of LOL that modt frustrate us but that is not productive. Sufficed to say, I think thay AFK frequency in Ranked play is very high (S4 & S5) and it is destroying this ranking system. LOL developers, please comment. I have enjoyed this game over the years and want to help improve it.