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IP Banning for Smurfs

BZ Hexate·7/14/2017, 12:29:06 AM·3 votes·3,337 views

I'm actually unsure about if / when this was suggested before, but I don't see any so I'll ask again.

So first thing's first, I don't have anything against having smurfs to play things off-role or such. But what I do have a problem with is when players have smurfs just to screw with players in ranked, recently I played with a dude that decided to int feed for the sole reason that I picked kayn, giving no shits since apparently his account was a smurf.

That guy will prob go and ruin at least a few more games before he gets banned, and then he'd still have his main account apparently. People should be actually punished for ruining fun play on all their accounts instead of being about to screw people over without caring about consequences. So just wondering why there isn't IP bans, at least for perm bans, like what Overwatch does, and that's a paid game.

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RiotRiot Tantram7/14/2017, 12:30:41 AM14 votes

So just wondering why there isn't IP bans, at least for perm bans, like what Overwatch does, and that's a paid game.

Good question.

1.) An IP is really easy to change, therefore isn't a very good method. Most people have dynamic IPs that frequently change. 2.) A lot of people would get caught in the crossfire.

Imagine someone in a college dorm getting banned, and nobody from that college could play. That same goes for PC bangs.

CrazFight 7/14/2017, 12:30:21 AM2 votes

Alot of people in college play league, ip banning wouldn't work because it could ban whole dorm's, there are other examples but that one is prob one of the biggest. People can also just change IP as well.

I Love Thresh7/14/2017, 12:33:38 AM1 votes

You're as likely to get a smurf, good or bad, in your team as the enemy team is, it's kind of like a 50/50 thing similar to ARAM luck, if they int and flame they earned the privilege to get banned regardless or whether they were a smurf or not.

AraMoOse7/14/2017, 12:39:46 AM1 votes

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