My Idea on How To Stop AFK Players

Unthreatening·11/2/2015, 10:03:21 PM·3 votes·918 views

Hello, I have just lost my final promotion game in a 5 game series due to an AFK Vayne in ADC. This has prompted me to write my ideas on how we can stop people from going AFK and people loosing LP or promotion games because one person doesn't want to play. In my opinion bans won't stop people from going AFK and stop unnecessary losses. These are my ideas:

  1. People who leave a game should receive and LP deduction, for example: For the Next 5 Games you will win an extra 5lp and loose and extra 5lp. This will stop people from leaving in a way that not only effects one game, but also punishes them for a few games after their AFK.
  2. The players on the AFK players team should be able to leave the game or surrender without a punishment. It is really frustrating to play with an AFK player and just as frustrating when you loose a Promotion, Get demoted, or loose LP because of a leaving player. So the players should be able to leave, or continue the game without loosing Lp if they loose.
  3. For my final idea, I think that if you have an AFK on your team you should actually be able to see that they are a person likely to go AFK. Now with how the system works if they go AFK they loose LP and get in a Low Priority Queue, and after a few games it goes away and everything is back to normal. My idea is that if someone goes AFK they get a badge, similar to rank borders and commening someone, that shows that someone has went AFK
    Thanks for reading if you have gotten up to this point, these are just my ideas and if you have anything else to add, please feel free to add any comments and vote on the poll that I left for this topic.

5 Comments

alasarcher11/2/2015, 10:20:50 PM2 votes

This has been suggested milion times and answer was , is and always will be NO. It can be abused in many ways, although 1st option for afkers to lose more LP is possible, but if person has to go , he wont care if he loses 10 LP or 15.

Option 2 will never happen

Option 3: Noone can predict if someone will go afk. There are many unplanned situations that force people to afk.

Rigaroom11/2/2015, 10:27:25 PM1 votes

I think choice 2, I play DOTA 2 alot and they allow you to leave the game if someone in your team afk, which is helping the community a lot since DOTA 2 players are toxic like LoL, but you usually don't feel "the toxic" in DOTA 2. I love LoL, but the sad thing is the rank system is too toxic and frustrating (which is why i like to play normal than rank), and its almost season 6 - 6 years, and the rank system is still the same.

Blue Mystified11/2/2015, 11:15:32 PM1 votes

i like all your ideas :)

OldDirtay11/2/2015, 11:44:08 PM1 votes

sadly riot wont implement it because.....honestly idk, they are to dumb for common sense

right now they wont for any reason allow lp reductions because of the fact it "can be exploited".....but to do this you would literally have to be que'd with em or somehow hope someone else would drop for you? (which people dont even give up roles so GL with that)....should be easy to tell someones que'd with him and that one person keeps leaving a game....thats why u make a system that tracks that and on top of that when u leave or afk in a ranked game you get a real punishment and not a slap on the wrist...

tada, problem solved....but again they wont punish people for afks because they understand that a majority of them are usually their clients fault so none of this will ever happen sadly....

and the badge thing wont work, thats a prisoners island type of style system and they frown upon that...which idk, i think if you constantly leave games you should be paired with people who do the same thing

but oh well! least we got solid matchmaking http://s1328.photobucket.com/user/rekbon/media/whatswrongwiththis_zpsjin1kzvy.png.html?sort=3&o=0

oh wait.........

well at least our reports hold weight <inserts matchhistory of someone with over 30 games this month building all tears and going 0/10+> <inserts riots support ticket response with them saying the system will catch him eventually we cant do anything but sorry> <inserts them playing a game everyday since> oh wait.....

fk man...league staff......."trying to find better ways"....going on 3 years and getting worse each day