Disconnections and how accountable teams should be for them.

MidgetTiger·7/22/2019, 10:02:45 PM·2 votes·4,101 views

Disconnections (dc's) are in every elo and can range from intentional to completely out of your control. I recently played a ranked game were my team was stomping the other team, however, at about 10 minutes in, our adc dc'd and never reconnected. Here we had a choice. We could forfeit and take the auto-loss or try to ride out our lead and 1) hope our adc reconnects or 2) pray to God we can somehow pull off a 4v5 because we are ahead. Sadly, our adc never reconnected and this game went on for 40minutes. We ended up losing because we just didn't have the numbers to win. My question is this:

Should a team and its individual players' LP be held accountable for a member's disconnection?

Obviously, my answer is no. The other four players on the team cannot control whether their fifth player dc's or not, so why should they have to pretty much inevitably lose LP because of it? Is it too game-breaking to have another /remake timer that activates when a dc occurs? It's too costly and feelsbadman if you have to forfeit because of a dc. If LP must be lost, maybe there should be a mechanic that takes dc's into account, so that: if a team has a dc and they choose not to forfeit, and they lose, they lose less LP than usual.

Having dc's in your ranked games just doesn't feel good, and is yet another thing that is actually game-breaking because it is something that is completely out of the other players' control.

-MT

6 Comments

rujitra7/22/2019, 10:05:11 PM5 votes

The problem with this is the way LP works is because it is a "currency" - it is not "created" or "destroyed", but it is merely transferred - one team wins, and the other team loses about the same amount.

Hotarµ7/22/2019, 10:09:51 PM4 votes

Should a team and its individual players' LP be held accountable for a member's disconnection?

To be honest, I think the majority of people would agree with you. If someone disconnects, other people shouldn't be punished for it.

However, the problem lies in that any system like this could be easily abused. Realistically speaking it's just not possible to introduce a system like this that would work without fail.