Could we maybe make Low Priority Que suck a little less?

KingRaffa·8/17/2018, 1:09:20 AM·4 votes·3,437 views

So, I just lagged out while loading into an ARAM and managed to reconnect after 10 min. I valiantly tried to help my team come back but alas, we lost, and I obviously got a low priority punishment. That's not what this is about. There are other posts to talk about the rationale of incentivizing people to not even try to reconnect. What this is about is the fact that the client is literally unusable for me while I'm waiting for the 20 minutes to go by. And I really don't understand the reason for that. Can you at least let me browse the store while I'm waiting? What does anyone gain by the client turning into a brick during the waiting period?

21 Comments

Imperial Pandaa8/17/2018, 2:45:53 AM4 votes

So, the basic reason of the LPQ is to make sure that your connection/pc will be okay for a game. If it drops, you don't get the credit for that match queue. 20 minute is the worse case.

As to why you can't do anything in client, that much is probably a punishment or they expect you to get distracted.

Telephone Booth8/17/2018, 3:24:28 AM2 votes

What does anyone gain?! You think you're supposed to gain something? You're being punished.

Kei1438/17/2018, 1:23:19 AM2 votes

What does it serve?

Punishment.

Phoenixdust8/17/2018, 11:12:06 AM2 votes

Maybe it encourages you not to leave games, or if your system is incapable to run the game, then stop playing the game? :O

GreatWhiteNorth8/18/2018, 9:45:04 PM1 votes

I agree that 20 minutes is too long. My reasoning is that it played into my bad habits when I was trying to get off leavebuster. The habit was not thinking about whether I had time to finish a game, or not be interrupted, before starting one. Adding 20 minutes to wait time actually made it harder to learn how to plan this, since it increased the whole process of a game from capping out at about 40 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes.

That said, what I believe, is that people who haven't been leavebusted for a long time should be given the 5 minutes wait again, just like someone who has never been leavebusted before. If you are repeating the behaviour in the same year, I totally agree with the 20 minute waits.

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/player-behavior-moderation/iEiNANXu-can-i-please-have-leavebuster-reset

Return of Pisces8/17/2018, 2:20:26 AM1 votes

It depends on which Low priority queue you are talking about. The low priority queue that you get placed into for disconnecting from games, or the low priority queue that you get placed in if your honor level drops below 2 but agree for both.

Frothy White Goo8/17/2018, 9:40:43 PM1 votes

considering most loading problems are caused due to riot's shitty programming, they're just looking for new ways to ban people so they have to make a new account(inflates playerbase numbers) and spend more money to buy skins they bought fairly on an account