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Creating a Way to Rightfully Punish and Neutralize Loss of LP

Tha Creature·2/18/2017, 6:50:26 PM·1 votes·734 views

I am writing this because of and for Low Elo players such as myself that have to pay the price of losing LP when we shouldn't. Riot and it's community need to discuss a way to eliminate the loss of LP when a player Rage quits in the middle of a game which results in a possible and potential Defeat and Loss of LP. The Low Elo community understands that players all around the world have "Bad Days" , i to have them but under no circumstances do i leave my team in the middle of a match especially (feed then leave), NOW ! i have in the past season 1- season 3 rage quit to get into another game because of other players and their attitudes or negativity but since then i have improved my attitude and successfully mastered the MUTE button lol. The mute button only works to a certain degree for example not showing the bad mouthed players chat anymore or hide the distraction of (ALL CHAT) ,furthermore it does not help your team if a player or players leave your team in the beginning, middle, or late game , which could potentially lose you the game due to the opposing team taking advantage and making smarter decisions on objectives or abusing you in lane knowing you have limited players to help come to you rescue.

Now, to the issue of penalizing players in the event of leaving their team behind should be more excessively harsher even for a first offense because there a few ways to come out with a Victory even if your team is toxic. First is the " MUTE " button , the teams words cannot annoy you if you cannot see them, Second " Split Push" if possible when your team is pulling the enemy team towards them, or inform your team ( because they can still see your chat) to try and get an objective if your split pushing is annoying the enemy team and you can manage to bait them to you without dying, but if you die for an objective being taken for your team well then you have made a positive impact in the game even though you were the one being harassed. Third , you can follow the team around and help out with objectives or map control by warding or clearing wards.

I feel that the penalty for leaving your team should be : (Option #1 ) Instant restart at 0 LP if you have any LP (Option #2) Instant Loss of Series and Set back to 50 LP (Option #3) Instant 45 Minute Wait period before Que can start for 3 games, Although this is countered by having a smurf account and i don't know if banning an IP address would make it harder or easier on riot i'm not fully aware of the process for this, but i imagine they could track the IP Address and create the 45 minute ban on the separate account also making the player understand that they cannot hide from Riot anymore.

Last but not least, the Neutralization of Losing LP because of a teammate who just didn't want to play all of a sudden or afk'd. This is without doubt one of the biggest and saddest things about Low Elo that drives people into madness, no player should lose LP except the person who quit on their team, now i understand emergencies come up unexpectedly and some people have to leave the games that their in, BUT if you for any chance do not think you have the time to play a potentially 50 minute game then don't start one int the first place. The players that are actually trying to figure out how to win the 5v4 should not lose LP because there is only a 50% chance that their going to win the game and it only takes one or two mistakes or bad calls for the enemy team to snowball to victory ( 3 inhibitors down and 6 super minions with minions is hard to beat especially if your down a player and especially if its early game or mid game and you have no high damage, resulting in the enemy team getting baron and just tearing your team apart), instead of losing a teammate/Losing LP/Creating a Loss in your record all at once this is what i suggest:

(#1) No Loss of LP (#2) No Loss on your record

These Two Ideas can make a big impact on the League of Legends Community especially in Low Elo, But there are some issues that may make all this problematic or not possible for Riot:

(#1) Player who are in Duo's can just simply leave for their friend to avoid them losing LP or a Loss series if they are willing to take the consequences on that account, (revisiting the issue of IP Address Ban ) so players cannot just switch accounts and try again without taking any penalty. (#2) Loss of Players/ Fans in the Community of League of Legends due to Stricter Rules and Consequences (#3) Loss of Revenue for the Company in Purchases or Exposure to the media Possibly being Labeled and " Over Serious Game " or " Not Fun "

These Issues i completely understand from Riots point of view " AS A THRIVING COMPANY " but in the players eyes ( the people who keep your in business) should be granted more of a satisfying way of encouragement to play and KEEP playing your game and to Strive to become a Pro or want to become diamond elo where players most enjoy teammates.

But Hey ! Happiness does pay the bills right....

Sincerely,

              A Troubled Low Elo Player

1 Comments

Sarutobi2/18/2017, 8:09:52 PM1 votes

I mean this has been discuss to death, and while you do bring in great ideas, there just isn't a way to implement it into the game at the moment. First off you don't want too harsh of a punishment, because then you will get prone to false positives. I mean we can all agree Riot has some pretty bad servers. Client crashing, Bugsplat errors, etc. These are out of the players control and to be harshly punished because of a fault not of their own is wrong. Now if there was a way to tell the differences between someone whose game crash, and someone who say unplug the Ethernet cable/modem this could work, but they can't, we just dont have the tech for that currently.

With the compensation again you dont want to make it too severe. Losing no LP, or having a lost on your account could lead to others harassing unknown teammates to make them quit (much like how you were in the past), or having smurfs much more rampant. I mean if they are playing on their Smurf they really arent going to care, so even with a group of people they dont know theyll take one for the team because its not their main account.

I understand your frustration. This is one of the reasons why i dont play Rank. I want to be shown my skills throughout the game. Not gaining/losing LP because of one person. that doesnt tell me how good i am at this game. just that i have crappy teammates who fed/leave/troll. But there needs to be a way to help without giving too much power.