Unfair punishments

EterniTea·12/15/2017, 12:45:33 AM·2 votes·554 views

Soooooo... In the history of my account, i've been forced several times to afk during whole games. My ping is pretty random every game. Sometimes, it lags nonstop during a whole week, and sometimes do the complete opposite. I'm usually on a ping around 30 - 35 ms. When lagging, it mostly just spikes up to 200 every 5 seconds. But sometimes, it goes up to something like 2000 or 3000 and stays there, going up and down. The game doesn't stop freezing, teleporting and disconnecting me. Therefore, any attempt to play or help my teammates would obviously result in feeding. Those forced afk behaviors are frustrating, but the worse part is that i actually get consequences for it, like lower priority queue and stuff. I'm not asking for a solution with my ping, neither to remove inactivity sentences, but maybe the ia that gives them should check up your ping aswell, you know... just to not make your day worse by getting you a 20 min timer before every game unfairly.

Details :

  • I can't know when or if i will lag during a game, my ping is totally random. It can be bad, but can also be great, which is why i still do play the game.
  • I'm not living far away from Riot's servers or anything.
  • I'm going afk in order to spare my team from an useless teammate that lags too much to even just last hit.

I'm not shitting on Riot, and i don't want to. I understand the measures that are taken to punish the players that leaves games. But i'm sure some adjustments about those would benefit a small, if not tiny part of players that are getting problems for this.

Have a good day^^

5 Comments

Rand0mH3r0X12/15/2017, 12:58:40 AM5 votes

In-Game Issues

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I cannot comment on your particular situation in regards to your in-game connectivity. I would suggest trying to address that issue.

As for posting in Player Behavior: This may sound harsh, however, knowingly playing a game with connectivity issues is a selfish act. There are 4 other people who have to play with you, and unfortunately you made the deliberate decision to play the game with connectivity issues. I don't know anybody who's been banned for AFK(probably because they're still AFK), but you'll at least get Leaver Buster penalties. You've got to find a solution to your connection as your internet experience overall, including League of Legends, is going to suffer.

Telephone Booth12/15/2017, 3:33:27 AM3 votes

Fairness hardly matters... still though, it sounds fair to me. You have consistent connection issues, you choose to play a team game that requires a solid internet connection, you get punished for ruining your teams' games due to your consistent connection issues. Fix your issue. I don't think it's a question of fairness on Riots part. Maybe LIFE not being fair, because your connection sucks and you don't know why, but definitely not Riot. And besides, life isn't fair, so it's a poor thing to base a complaint on. You're better off never expecting fairness, or else you're just gonna be disappointed a lot.

Kei14312/15/2017, 1:20:17 AM1 votes

Have you tried to call up your ISP to check up on these occasional packet losses and ping spikes?

Back in the days, my friend would get similar things, called the ISP up, the technician came and found a staple in the middle of the internet cable. Fixed it and since then, no problems.

aZaBoy12/15/2017, 6:56:17 PM1 votes

If what you say is a frequent issue of afking in game, I do not see a reason not be be punished for it even if it is internet speed caused. It is not fair to frequently put teammates in the position of a 4v5 just because you lag. I'd take it up with the ISP or look into a new router or even possibly get Ethernet.