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A Method to Reduce False Reports

zWaMciPEne·3/17/2016, 7:21:36 PM·1 votes·713 views

Alot of players experience** lag or MS/Ping issues at some point **during league of legends. It can be a storm, or perhaps a car wreck that suddenly takes out your internet from a decent 52ms to 300, 400, 500 or even sometimes a horrifying 18,000 ms! Player are so fast to jump on players even in normals and cuss them calling them afks, leavers, trolls. I suggest that we bring a feature to league of legends that shows your teammates ping just above the champion with a option to toggle it on and off for the game. It would be unfair to see the enemy teams ping so that is not needed, however players will be~~ less likely~~ to report someone AFK, Troll, or otherwise if they simply see 789ms floating above the supports head.

This also improves gameplay dynamics for working with your team, when the adc says "guys im lagging pretty hard" you will be able to see that he is currently spiking to 500 ms, and that tells you as support "This is not the time to go HAM" , "I need to focus on protecting him even more right now".

There is alot _more negative attitude than we would like to admit _in the league community and hopefully this feature would cut back on the false reports, improve gameplay during the game, and overall be a good thing.

11 Comments

FrankerX3/17/2016, 7:31:48 PM4 votes

uhm... why would that help with "false reports"? in the end the leavebuster deals with afk's reports of someone being afk are almost useless. so this idea is also kinda useless.

Iqqi3/17/2016, 7:42:53 PM3 votes

There are no "false reports".

Just like the law you either broke it or you didn't. The reason or the circumstances do not matter. So you had a storm and your latency was over 9000 and you get DCed in a game? Somehow that is supposed to mean that you shouldn't get punished? Absolutely not. The rules exist. You broke the rule. The storm did not magically appear over your head. You either now know that if there is a storm, you shouldnt be playing ranked, or you continue to repeat your mistake and queue in storms and ruin games for your team.

Your personal opinion of the circumstances of a rule violation do not factor into whether that rule should be enforced or not. Rules and laws are not enforced on a case by case basis (unless you are rich, then laws are different).

Riot's system has a report verification process through a computer. If you are reported for breaking a rule, the computer verifies the report. It checks. Did you break the rule? if so "X" if not delete. It doesn't check to see the whether in your area at the time of the report. It doesnt care who started it. You either broke the rule or you didn't.

Envy Sin3/17/2016, 7:23:47 PM1 votes

Ping used to be shown in the loading screen.

Riot removed it because people were giving other players shit for having a high or unsteady ping.

Sarutobi3/17/2016, 7:28:04 PM1 votes

They had this before all these changes a couple of years ago. Granted it was only in the loading screen, but it does help in validating when someone lags. I can say especially living in Hawaii and the servers changing to a different location. We got hit really hard and what was once between 90-100 ping, went to about 120-130. Not that bad, but still from time to time it will rocket to the thousands, and usually the only way to fix it is to restart the whole client. it doesnt happen too often, so i have never had to deal with Leave Buster.

But i can see why they no longer do stuff like this. People will find any reason to bash someone. And lag is something people love to jump on others for. Heck ive been accused of intentionally knowing my lag was bad and still played when that is never the case. Usually if i am lagging and its that badly i try to explain myself and when the game is done i just stop playing for that day.