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A possible way of dealing with AFK's.

Huncho Houdiní·2/5/2016, 4:48:47 PM·4 votes·1,031 views

I love playing ranked when I have the free time to do so. I sit down in my comfy chair, I turn on my computer, and I open up and LoL and queue up for ranked. I try my hardest to help me and my team by offering advice like "We need a a tank top and/or jg", or "We could use some more AP". We end up picking out a good team comp to further our chances of winning the game. It all goes well until the announcer says "A summoner has disconnected". That is when I start getting nervous. But is it fair to fight a 4v5 and lose the game causing you to lose hard earned LP and give the enemy team free easily earned LP? It's not right. I understand people AFK sometimes for important reasons and I understand that, so I don't want to see any comments like "Yeah well if my mom got shot right next to me, I shouldn't AFK?" That's not what I mean. It's ok to AFK if it's for a good reason. Going AFK in ranked to go get a snack or beat your meat isn't a viable excuse (unless you haven't eaten anything in the past week and decided to log onto Lol instead of eating right away for some reason). The victims on the 4 side of the unfair 4v5 fight shouldn't even lose LP nor should the enemies gain free LP. I was thinking that maybe Riot should implement an AFK system in the sorts of Dota 2's system. It doesn't have too be exactly the same, just similar. For those of you who don't know Dota 2's AFK system, if somebody disconnects from the game, you are allowed to disconnect from the game as well with no consequences or punishments. If this system were to be implemented into LoL, I feel that nobody in that match should earn or lose the LP that should be obtained or deducted. Post down below in the comments with what you think of this idea.

8 Comments

Wild Wes2/5/2016, 5:07:20 PM3 votes

Very good idea. Another course of action, if Riot feels like that's too extreme (which it's not) might be to have people who AFK in game queue with other AFK people. Could be like each game you play you get 1 AFK point. When you AFK you lose 20 AFK points. When you have 0 or below AFK points you will be queued with other people who have below 0 AFK points? Just a thought.

Frikgeek2/5/2016, 5:04:36 PM1 votes

If you actually knew Dota's system you'd know that it only prevents leaver punishments, you still lose ranking and a loss will be recorded in your stats.

This is completely retarded as the losing team could simply harass someone till they afk to not lose any LP.

Zombiemaster2/5/2016, 5:28:21 PM1 votes

I really only think that something like this should be implemented if the player who left just never connected to the game from the start. Like, if a player doesn't ever connect to the game, and they don't connect within a certain time frame, then the game is just scrapped or something, and no one gains or loses any LP. The reason I say this is because if a player leaves in the middle of the game, then it wouldn't be fair for the team with 5 if they were already winning because now they don't get any LP even though they were winning a fair fight in the first place. They should still be awarded with LP in this situation, as well as the team with the leaver still losing LP as they were losing a fair 5v5 anyway.

Also, as Frikgeek stated, the losing team could very well start harassing someone on their team to try and get them to leave, and then they would be rewarded for that by not losing LP. Even though we do have systems to punish that behavior, it's still something that Riot does not want.

As for Trellerus' idea, that's a similar idea to what Riot commonly refers to as "Prisoner's Island," which is basically just matching "toxic" toxic players with other "toxic" players, or matching leavers with other leavers. It's a concept that Riot has talked about quite a bit in the past, and it's something that they have openly rejected to implementing.

Korillo2/5/2016, 5:34:18 PM1 votes

lol oh I'm losing?? Disconnect wewt no lp loss.

Look at my l33t record guys never lost a single game in my life ch4lleng3r here I cum!

Samus722/5/2016, 5:41:20 PM1 votes

I honestly don't know what would be the best way to punish AFKers, and make it a real punishment, in a free game. If you had to pay for game access, it's quite an incentive to not commit offenses because if you are locked out, you have to pay again to play. Here, you just AFK all you want until you're banned. Then, you make a new account. Is that a punishment?