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Is good conduct worth it?

DNZAD··3 votes·421 views

Does bettering yourself do anything than maybe get you a few more honours? Being someone who used to go afk often I haven't gone afk or left a game in a long time. I have always tried to be nice to teammates and enemies alike. I thought that maybe being nice and following guidlines might help me better myself and have a more positive experience with the game. I have to say, being positive towards everyone does help you keep your cool more often than not. But today I got a grim reminder... after having to leave my PC due to an emergency I left my champ in our fountain. I didn't ragequit, or close the game. I didn't leave because I didn't want to finish that game of Twisted Treeline. I thought it would be fine if I just left the game running and came back as soon as possible. But I was wrong. The game was over. Big bold letters mocked me for abandoning my teammates. I came back to an unpleasend notification saying that I had been pushed into a lower priority queue. I hoped with all of my heart that I didn't get punished as hardly as someone who afk's every 5th game. Wrong again. Being put into a lower priority queue for the first tim in a long time didn't mean I got spared. 5 20minute blocks? After being a good boy for so long? Papa Riot why? Do I never get forgiven for my past sins? I am desperatly trying to hold my nerves together. I don't want to go through this. Not after all that effort put into being nice. I contemplate just getting a new account. No, the low level hell is not better than whats hit me now. I get furious. BAM! I punch my wall. My hand hurts. I calm down. Press play. And write this while waiting. Am ingame now bye.

9 Comments

Jo0o2 votes

I don't know how frequently you've left games, but this seems like an example of why it's never okay to do so. You used up your leaverbuster leniency a while back, and now when you DO have those once-in-a-while emergencies, you're stuck paying for the games you ruined before.

DNZAD2 votes

I think having to sit and do nothing for 1hour and 20 minutes total is punishment enough. You cannot even just get over it in one long sitting you have to suffer for the next 5 queues. The point of me writing that was to show how frustrating it is to not be able to come clear after having done something in the past, even in LoL. I hope that I will be able to distance myself from the past, but that's not possible. My past not haunting me anymore simply isn't coded into the spaghetti matrix that we call LoL. I could always make a new account, like how you can move out of the area where everyone knows about your past actions. But you only do such a thing if you have done something horrible, like getting banned... I am better than that! So I will sit through this punishment which has gotten it's lenght due to the ghost of my past. All I can do now is hope. Hope that one day I'll be forgiven for my sins.

But I won't be forgiven. Riot does not simply forgive and forget. Maybe if I make my own Championships and pull gianormous community stunts like someone who has been forgiven after getting the worst possible punishment, maybe I'll be forgiven for simply leaving a few games in the past.

Jo0o2 votes

The system is actually designed to forgive you over time.

Judging by your match history, you're a player who often takes long breaks from the game. Please understand that the systems in place take number of games into account, not just real-world time passed.

DNZAD1 votes

Understandable

Azure Hamster1 votes

I got a warning once.

I left a game one day because our kitchen sink came detatched and blooshed about 10 gallons of water on to the kitchen floor and I had to clean it up. Nothing happened, but the next day, the power went out during the match.

I got the thing that warns you and makes you type "I understand" or some such. Never had any other trouble. But I've probably left 2 games in over 5 years, and had the power go out maybe 5 games.

Caitlyn

swordofsun1 votes

I've been in the low priority queue and I understand you're frustration.

Here's the thing though: I deserved low priority and so do you. No matter the emergency that eventually popped we both left a number of games before then for less important reasons. Honestly all I really had to do was get a new router so my internet would stop going out mid-game. It didn't happen often, but a time or two a week and that ruined a game or two a week.

But all those instances (plus one rage quit) of my internet shorting out meant that when I really did have an emergency my good will had been used up. Riot had given me plenty of chances to not leave and ruin other people's games.

I got a new router. I played without leaving. I regained Riot's faith. I eventually received a nice message from Riot saying that my account was back in good standing. It took several months of regular play. And that was for a much lower wait time, so you probably do have a lot of work to prove you're reformed.

As for your initial question: It does feel nice to know that I'm not inadvertently ruining other people's game anymore. That seems worth it to me.

RookPusher1 votes

The question really sounds like "Is going for honor worth it?"

I still think the honor system sucks. If some a-hole gets 23 kills they get honored. If I kiss ass in the support role, I'm lucky to get one. The system favors conventional wisdom.

Telephone Booth1 votes

Obviously it is worth it or else you get LPQ, or even worse, a ban.

FurriesAreHot1 votes

The title is written as if to indicate it requires active effort to be a positive player. I often pick dumb shit and just have fun with the game, not feeding intentionally of course.

As for the Leaverbuster, the system actually forgives you over time. I leave a game roughly once every 2 weeks, and I dont get Leaverbusters since the game understands I don't do it often and it may be important.

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