Low Priority Queue [FIXED]

SnakDatSmilesBak··1 votes·3,274 views

Low priority queue will add a timer to your queue before a set number of games so that you have to wait a certain amount of time before you are actually in queue for a game. The system works on the principle of "I wasted your time, riot is wasting mine."

The problem with this system is that the timer lasts for a certain number of games. If you wait 20 minutes then for some reason you don't get to play a game after waiting, it's like you didn't wait at all. It works like this to prevent people from selecting a queue and leaving to do something else. (citation needed)

My fix for the system is to make it so that waiting through the timer and joining a lobby counts as waiting for one game. So for example if someone has a 5 game timer, then waits once and joins a lobby it knocks a portion off of their punishment, whether or not the player plays a game.

Players still have to sit through the total time as before, except now players aren't doubly punished because of crashes, bugs, or trolling teammates in lobby.

2 Comments

Jo0o1 votes

Hm. Trying to play devil's advocate here, looking for a way this could be abused.

I guess hypothetically somebody could play a single-player game, set a timer for 20 minutes, queue for League, play their game for 20, accept the queue, then dodge. A dodge timer would be built up, of course, but the flipside is that the player could do their own thing with 95% of their time, pausing only to queue, accept queue, and then dodge. Leaverbuster is supposed to be a time-out in which the player is still required to be on League, but this would allow the player to trade a little bit more timeout time in exchange for getting to focus on a different game altogether.

I'm not sure if my reasoning is correct, though. Does that make any sense?

SnakDatSmilesBak1 votes

I can already do exactly what you said except without dodging and it's the same thing. My suggestion is to only make the player wait once per game instead of once per queue.

It's just a pain in the ass when it takes 20 minutes to start looking for a game, then someone bans my pick, someone trolls, client crashes, etc., and I'm back waiting 20 more minutes even though I already waited. I seriously doubt riot accounted for trolls and crashes while creating the punishment system.

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