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Incredible number of AFKs in games

SirUrlich·11/1/2018, 10:21:54 AM·2 votes·2,811 views

How is it possible to have so many AFKs in my games?? I have been trying not to write anything because it might sound as complaining for nathing, but it seems that the report szstem does absolutely nothing!!!! So for us the not so good players in Silver who fight for every win, it is very demoralizing to enter a game and at 4 min have a 0/2/0 REnekton rage quit the game (giving the 2 kills to Trynd YAY!!!!). So I at least expect that this guy will be banned, but it just does not happen, otherwise there would not be sooooo many AFKs.

And also after trying our best with only 4 player and we were actually holding on to life there, but of course we ended up loosing to Trynd split pushing pressure and more players on their team. SO the best surprise is the I get a nice -19 LP for the lost!!!! How is this possible??? Give the LP to the winners if you want because it is not their fault, but do not take 19 LP from me because it is not my fault either I have an AFk in the game and lost because of it.

WHat are your thoughts on this? Does anyone have some facts about the report system?? To see if it is really working?

7 Comments

zPOOPz11/1/2018, 11:38:02 AM1 votes

First of all, afk only result at the highest 20 minutes LPQ (unless manually reviewed) so if you are waiting for afk to be banned, you'll be waiting for a while.

Secondly, I looked at the last 20 games you played in the last 3 days, you had 2 afks in your games and 1 of them is on the enemy team resulting in a remake. If you want to have a healthy discussion, how about not exaggerated the truth so much?

Thirdly, that match you are talking about. The tryn didn't kill the reke until the 6th minute mark and the reke afk'd at level 6 so there's no chance in hell he could be level 6 at 4minutes.

I understand how frustrating having afk can be and statistically, you benefit more from afk in a decent enough amount of games (see point 2).

SSmotzer11/1/2018, 1:04:55 PM1 votes

The main reason the amount of AFKs are so high is because North American internet service is unreliable.

While other countries installed new infrastructure for high speed internet, America just piggybacked off of phone lines and where they couldn't they just slapped wires where ever they could.

I live outside of Chicago, the windy city, and my internet gets choppy during wind storms due to how Comcast set it up. I have lost my fair share of ranked games due to my internet just sh*ting the bed.