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Noticing a disturbing (but not necessarily new) trend...

Neupster·2/7/2018, 2:01:40 AM·1 votes·472 views

Just got out of a ranked game with someone who tilted a little to hard and started to blatantly int. That's not what this is about. I can take a loss here and there, and all 9 banned him so in all likelihood he's getting banned. But that's where the title comes in....

I looked him up, and its a new account, barely level 30, no previous seasons rankings. So its clearly a smurf/second account, which is why inting was no big deal. He didn't care if it got banned. I've been seeing this more and more. Players on their mains will behave, but on a smurf there are no consequences that will actually matter. After all, I can just go back to my other account and pretend it never happened.

This all begs the question, can something more be done? Riot has addressed the issues with smurfs and why it's a tricky issue. I don't want to get into that here, but my question for the community is would you support multiple account bans via IP address identification to better enforce rules surrounding toxicity, or is that too extreme? Love to hear your thoughts.

3 Comments

Hellmaximus12/7/2018, 2:28:19 AM2 votes

When the new level system was put in place riot didn't considered Player vs. AI games giving exp even past level 10 without any restrictions towards exp gains, which has allowed people to run botting programs with lobbies full of other bots which has makes botting far easier and less risky than how it was before.

This has caused botted account price to drop (anywhere from 3-20$) which makes it way easier (and safer) to buy these accounts.

There was also a problem with people botting their smurfs or main account in 3v3 bots with EXP boost(30Days) 12-24 hours with 2 other bot accounts for easy Blue essence and loot.

Now riot made some type of Detection program since a huge majority of those player got their accounts banned(mostly smurfs) and it seems like that was 23 days ago

The good news and it should reduced the number of bought Smurfs who int games but that wont happen into 2-3 months down the line, and right now they're going to be floods of people dumping their botted accounts for cheap/

TheEvilQueen1352/7/2018, 8:29:37 AM1 votes

just an fyi more reports doesn't mean a more likely ban 1 report is just as strong as 9

zPOOPz2/7/2018, 8:37:11 AM1 votes

IP address ban is a very, very, very terrible idea, not because it is extreme, but because it is completely ineffective (hello proxy servers) and will cause collateral damage (hello internet cafe and college dorm)