Repost due to wrong board: Smurf-abuse for trolling ingame

Eternal Torment··1 votes·390 views

is the reason why riot should start using IP bans on clients for said trolls.

Hearing someone laugh in false safety while sabotaging your game for the fun of it is already bad enough. but then returning with endless smurfs knowing there is nothing out there other than death that will stop him from trolling people just tops the cake. I am pissed off from a troll ruining my game today, yes so go ahead and flame my ass. you will be welcomed. but i think i speak for an underestimated majority when i say riot Needs to up their moves against active trolling.

just look at tyler1, he has 22 accounts banned and even now riot still says he will be quot on quot "banned upon identification" means they are actually actively gonna look for him like some spies to Keep him off the game. just track the client from where his accounts are used and bust it, it is legally possible to do so. Hell, Messenger apps like kik have ip bans, and they are literally underdeveloped Little app creators that in tech compared to riot appear like some kindergardencompany.

save everyone the troubles, us Players, this community and even your own support team by just allowing it to happen. smurfing to climb is already an enough bad Thing for low elo regions, but abusing the new height of safety to perma troll the game knowing you still have a main account in full prepared use makes me tilt literally just by thinking about it. it makes me so salty i could give myself an yellow afro and get sold as french fries!

(A/N: posted this on gameplay a moment ago, but Moderation Counts this as critisism for PB&M so i had to move it here)

10 Comments

Deep Terror Nami4 votes

IP bans are easily circumvented, and also frequently punish many players that are not associated with the offender such as banning an entire college dorm or PC cafe. "Underdeveloped little app creators" do it because it's easy and they don't care about the collateral damage since there is a small chance of it; with a company like Riot the collateral is huge.

Eternal Torment1 votes

might be so, i would post it in full Detail if i didn't say a similar answer to madoka down in the comments. But a game with datas as massive as league of legends is pretty damn hard if not impossible to Keep on public accessable PC's like Cafe's, Most internet cafe's as we know them simply have a pc, Google, word, maybe a few mini Windows games like minesweeper and that is it. Sure, there are some places in gamecafe's that offer league of legends, but they are rather low in the amount.

for college dorm's that would more likely be the case, but i am confident enough that they can figure it out. I wouldn't defend the idea if i wasn't.

o0O Madoka O0o1 votes

ha.. my 20 min typing wasted because the post was removed.. Feels really bad.

Eternal Torment1 votes

feels bad indeed bro. that's why i copypaste everything i post before i post just incase something like this happens

o0O Madoka O0o1 votes

In short, it doesn't work every well for games.

IP address ban faces issues for dynamic IP address, net café, and easily available VPN.

Tyler1 was manually reviewed, verified and banned. It is impossible to apply that to a player base of millions of players. Also Tyler 1 still wants to stream and make videos. If he just plays in private (and I believe he does have an account for that), there's no way Riot can permanently ban him.

Eternal Torment1 votes

that may be true, but you really believe someone will Play league of legends in an internet cafee? sure, there are some gamer locals which are internet caffee's with games installed, and if you are extremely lucky, league of legends will be amongs them, but that is, as hinted, not a common case. Sure, the boards are one story that 100% applies to your comment, not gonna deny this, but the actual game itself not so much. almost everyone (not 100% everyone since These public net-places do exist after all) Plays league on a private device. I could be off with the amount, who knows, i certainly dont. but i am pretty damn sore in my head if i see riot saying they try everything they can to improve the game but make their own work harder by not finding simpler and more effective punishments against trolls OR something to lessen the effect of it

o0O Madoka O0o1 votes

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that may be true, but you really believe someone will Play league of legends in an internet cafee? sure, there are some gamer locals which are internet caffee's with games installed, and if you are extremely lucky, league of legends will be amongs them, but that is, as hinted, not a common case. Sure, the boards are one story that 100% applies to your comment, not gonna deny this, but the actual game itself not so much. almost everyone (not 100% everyone since These public net-places do exist after all) Plays league on a private device. I could be off with the amount, who knows, i certainly dont. but i am pretty damn sore in my head if i see riot saying they try everything they can to improve the game but make their own work harder by not finding simpler and more effective punishments against trolls OR something to lessen the effect of it

Dynamic IP address is a bigger and first problem I listed. For internet café, it's not a big problem in the NA, but certainly big in China/Korea.

Dynmaic IP address means whenever you connect to the Internet, instead of getting the same address, your internet provider give you a different one every time you connect(so they can recycle yours when you are off line). It is the practice for almost all provider nowadays because of the shortage of addresses.

Eternal Torment1 votes

true. i can only agree that dynamic IP would certainly be an obstacle. sad as it is, theres always ways to dodge the punishment Systems, right?

o0O Madoka O0o1 votes

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true. i can only agree that dynamic IP would certainly be an obstacle. sad as it is, theres always ways to dodge the punishment Systems, right?

yeah, if you try just a little bit harder, not even a huge effort, you can dodge punishment easily.

ModThe Djinn1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Click R for Win,realm=EUW,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=uklhk4aw,comment-id=00010000,timestamp=2017-05-03T17:49:22.441+0000)that may be true, but you really believe someone will Play league of legends in an internet cafee?

Yes. Very much so. A large percentage of the Asian game market is based on PC cafes.

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