Twisted Treeline is being overrun by the dreaded bots

JotTheDot·3/10/2017, 7:56:29 PM·16 votes·8,517 views

Historically the Twisted Treeline map, flaws and all, has been my favorite League game mode. Despite a lack of consistent support, it expresses a fast gameplay experience that provides players with the ability to redefine meta on a game by game basis.

In the past, it was widely known that a large percentage of players making up the old Dominion player-base were bot accounts (computer driven units used to grind for IP and the process of selling level 30 accounts). However, upon the discontinuation of the Dominion game mode, the vast majority of those accounts made their way to Twisted Treeline. Inasmuch, it is rare to go a game without seeing a beginner bot playing for one, if not both teams. I have even been in a game where I was the only human player.

Something needs to be adjusted to dissuade the usage of these accounts, or give players a way to directly address the issue. It gives teams distinct disadvantages that they have no control over and eats away at the integrity of the general League atmosphere. Does any one have suggestions as to how we might raise awareness of this matter?

10 Comments

5393/4/2019, 8:35:08 AM6 votes

Just played three games, was on a human team against 3 bots for the first, then the only human on either team for the next two games. ARAM is totally unplayable because of bots and I guess TT is now too. In the two years since this thread was opened I’m sure they’ve heard about it, but done nothing, so here we are.

GULAG 4 U3/11/2017, 5:27:22 AM4 votes

Last time i played TT there were 4 fucking bots. Jesus christ.

Papa Andrei3/10/2017, 10:12:36 PM3 votes

Honestly, I don't even notice. but that may be because my TT mmr is High Gold-Plat

Luigi Caracho5/20/2019, 9:23:59 PM2 votes

Same here since 2 years ...

Elkington VI3/17/2017, 2:40:48 PM2 votes

Get ready for Rito to delete the map, particularly after coming up with some bs about how little the playerbase was (compared to SR) and how "the community was split," which somehow justifies them removing even more diversity from the game. Nevermind that SR is the only game mode that they pay attention to, so of course the other game modes have less players.

MasterBBMan4/22/2018, 7:28:15 PM2 votes

EVERY SINGLE game still has bots, Its been a year!!! Wtf riot?? If you can't control your player base, just pack it in would you? Its not like the bots are hard to find. They all choose ghost and their names are a person's name with some lowercase mixed letters jumbled at the end like UrsulaBxU or xVcRobert.

If you're only going to support SR in the future just tell us so the thousands of us you don't care about can just leave. I've been playing league for 5 years but I've had enough. SR takes too long, is too intense, and is toxic enough that it still ruins my mood from time to time. Life is too short for that. Twisted Treeline is a great compromise; I even enjoyed Dominion until you took it from us.

I mean, don't you guys understand programming enough to stop the bots? I'd even be happily shocked if I could find one of you even commenting about how you leave down such a large group of your fans because you just don't give a crap about minorities and you're "working on it."

5 years a fan. Now I'm disgusted with you.

Minarde3/10/2017, 11:20:13 PM1 votes

The best stopgap solution would probably be for bots to do their grinding in custom games. Unfortunately, there's little reason for bots to return there after Riot drove them out of custom games (and into Co-Op and PvP queues) years ago.

One possible option would be for Riot to officially sell level 30 accounts. However, directly encouraging smurfing has its own share of problems. It also doesn't address the "got banned. need a new account"-market.

OverheatedFan7/24/2018, 8:25:42 PM1 votes

Azir this makes no sense Bard

idiot4823/13/2017, 3:02:12 PM1 votes

ugh, when you say raise awareness, do you mean to riot? or to the playerbase? because I could have swore, riot was aware of the bots of dominion and chose to just scrap it due to "lack of players" then to fix it.

Sukishoo3/11/2017, 5:29:26 AM1 votes

If you play ranked TT you'll never have those issues. Blind only happens occasionally for me, but it's when I haven't played on there in awhile.