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Player owned Bot accounts ruining games. In-Lobby CAPTCHA is a suggested solution.

EdgarHighman··4 votes·4,342 views
https://i.imgur.com/gahPoQJ.jpg

So bots have been around for years. Players can quickly tell them from actual players IN LOBBY. LoL Hell is seeing Bots on your team (Even TWO) and knowing you can't exit the lobby naturally (without penalization), can't forfeit IN-GAME (bots don't vote), and 99% chance you can't out-play the humans on the other team.

Riot Support can do nothing. I report them all day every day, both teams. So many of them. Riot hasn't taken initiative to use the methods that we can tell they are bots but HAS SUGGESTED something else.

TLDR create a captcha in lobby to prove you're not a bot. If someone doesn't answer it they get removed from party/disband and no penalty for remaining players in lobby. Riot Support suggested I make this thread because tickets won't do a darn thing. (They said I had to make a forum post).

So that guy I was speaking with in the picture said "Darn I wish they had a thing that said 'r u a bot' and they have to click it"... well that's 2x I saw the same suggestion in action so HERE I AM posting it. These things run straight into enemy towers and players and completely throw a match from the get-go. You can't even forfeit and have to wait 15 minutes anyway even if you could... It's really abysmal.

Better image: https://i.imgur.com/OBEdd3M.png

15 Comments

Arammus4 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsF7enQY8uI

LeftyRaydy1 votes

{quoted}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsF7enQY8uI

LMAO

Namîste3 votes

HECK NO! Do you know how annoying CAPTCHA's are?!

EdgarHighman4 votes

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HECK NO! Do you know how annoying CAPTCHA's are?!

If it's only 1 and not repeated captchas it's fine. I'd rather a bot fail a captcha and re-queue than me waste 15-30 minutes in a guaranteed loss.

Namîste2 votes

where are you even seeing bots? I've played since S3 and have never once can recall seeing a Bot in a PvP game

EdgarHighman1 votes

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where are you even seeing bots? I've played since S3 and have never once can recall seeing a Bot in a PvP game

oof, they're like every game. One or two, your team or theirs or both. Worst is when you have bot(s) on your team and you're vs a 3 man party... it's so bad! I main TT game mode and it's sadly very, very common.

Namîste2 votes

Oh so twisted tree lines only? [zombie-brand-facepalm]

So not every game...just Twisted Tree Line. Then you can enjoy CAPTCHAs on Twisted Tree Line and leave the Summoner's Rift alone.

EdgarHighman1 votes

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Oh so twisted tree lines only? [zombie-brand-facepalm]

So not every game...just Twisted Tree Line. Then you can enjoy CAPTCHAs on Twisted Tree Line and leave the Summoner's Rift alone.

Mainly TT, ARAM and PvE SR.

TimX24968B1 votes

much more common between lvls 1-30

Namîste2 votes

yes in Bot games but this person is level 58 and talking about Twisted tree line in PVP mode

TimX24968B1 votes

didn't even know twisted treeline was still a thing people played.

EdgarHighman2 votes

As a follow up, my last three games (TT or ARAM) had 5-6 bots between both teams. First game, each team had a bot, Second game team8 took a hit for dodging instead of playing with a feeding bot team8. Third lobby ALL MY TEAM WAS BOTS. I dodged queue and got a 6 minute penalty... I guess it's shorter than a 15-30 minute "game ends at mercy of enemy team" ... Bots don't forfeit btw. Suffer, or suffer. LOSE LOSE scenario.

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In our next game. 1 teammate is a bot and we're VS a 3 man party (Zed, Udy, Pantheon)... This is the most common scenario. They immediately knew this and fed off the bot 9 kills in 4 minutes. This was an extreme advantage and enemy zed could now one shot any of us.

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In the following game. Both my team mates were bots. #RIOTWAKETHEFUCKUP

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In the next game both team mates and all 3 enemies were bots

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In the game following my 2 team8's were bots and we were vs a 3 man party. Woo hoo! THANKS RIOT! Nunu, Irelia and Teemo. They immediately knew my team was bots and smashed them like free food. At three minute mark Irelia was tower diving and could take 5 lasers without dying. Had 4 kills on the bots. At 6 minutes she had 9 kills. - Does riot want to say bots are not affecting games? I don't log onto LoL to piss my time on forced losses. 8 minute mark 16/1 and they would 3vX steamroll our team. Irelia would non-stop tower dive with 0 penalty. RIOT you are awful for allowing this to continue. ZERO excuse.

mlm olo mlm1 votes

Probably a way around captcha.

Dylor1 votes

As an automation engineer for application testing for years, I can say, Captcha is pretty damn effective(though AI is catching up). You obviously have to weigh the annoyance of it against the benefit. I definitely think TT PVP needs it. The problem is, you put it only there and then the bots will move on to the next most beneficial mode. At the very least, provide an option for a player to demand captcha if things look suspicious in lobby.

Or conversely require captcha at the end of a game to claim exp/rewards.

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