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Perma IP bans for AFK's in ranked?

Defiaskilla·3/11/2015, 10:29:03 PM·2 votes·1,166 views

Is it just me or does it seem like there is an AFK in ever other ranked game. Personally Im sick of it. Something besides a slap on the wrists needs to be done. Perma IP bans in my opinion, but what if your power goes out. Yea true you cant help that, You more than likely have a smart phone of some sort. Take it out and prove your power went out take a video showing what happened. Game crashed and you cant get back in? prove it with a video. When you leave/afk in a Ranked match your IP will be banned from playing in ranked games. If it was not your fault and you can prove it then do so. Riot will send you an email saying "your account has been perma banned. Add any attachments you can to prove your innocence". Then add the video and send it back they will review it and make their decision. Im seriously tired of doing well in my lane and losing the game because had to go smoke a bowl. Or forgot he had to go to school. Its even more annoying to be bot lane and your sup goes afk, then the enemy tryhards you so bad. Like five man ganks or camping your lane. I understand its all for winning, but its just getting really bad. Iv'e noticed way more afk's this season than ever before.

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Ice Weasel X4/16/2015, 3:36:46 AM2 votes

IP bans are not a fix for this. Reasons this would be ineffective:

Most users these days are given dynamic, temporary IP addresses. This is because IPv4 is still widespread and simply doesn't have enough numbers available to accommodate all Internet nodes. An IP ban only affects someone until he changes to a new IP address.
Due to the limitations of IPv4, private networks often are assigned only one public IP address (larger organizations may have more than one). The computers on the private network have their own private IP addresses which are not visible to the outside world. Internet traffic is sent to the public address through a gateway, which is then routed to the correct individual on the private network.
Since an entire private network only uses one public IP address for the Internet, all of its users are publicly identified by that single address. An IP ban would deny access to every person on that private network. "No big deal," you think? Here are examples of private networks:
- Home network: Most homes with multiple computers share a single connection to the Internet. Your little brother got an IP ban? Well, so did you.
- Public library: Every Internet-enabled computer is part of the library's network. That asshole on the other side of the room got an IP ban? So did everyone in the library.
- Internet café/PC Bang: Those computers aren't on individual connections. If a player gets an IP ban, that business is screwed.
- University network: Each building or group of buildings may have a separate LAN which is part of a larger WAN. All connections in the same campus are funneled into a single gateway. Someone got too drunk at a frat party and decided it was the perfect time to troll LoL? Too bad, everyone in the WAN is now banned.
- Business network: An entire workplace may have separate VLANs for departmental structure, but all computers in the same location still use the same gateway in most cases. Someone had a bad day at work and decided to vent on his lunch break? Oops, he crossed a line and got banned. No more LoL for anyone at that company.
In some countries, even completely separate companies/organizations are forced to share a single IP address due to limited availability (I spent some time in the Philippines and noticed a few businesses whose ISPs placed them on a private network instead of assigning them a public address. Due to the cramped metropolitan area, it was physically possible, but still sucked.).
Often the person who earned the ban can circumvent it for his own purposes (making the ban worthless), but that still leaves anyone else using that IP address with a "banned" status.

In other words, ban one turd, and you potentially ban thousands of people. For small, personal networks, that's not a big deal and can easily be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. For larger scale businesses with millions of connections (like Riot), this is a HUGE problem and is bound to cause massive losses in potential revenue.

OhOkYea3/11/2015, 10:49:57 PM1 votes

If you can't win 4v5, then you were going to lose anyway.

RiotRiot Bearly Leah3/12/2015, 8:07:59 PM1 votes

That seems a little serious. Relax. It's just a game. Yeah I get it, it's important to you. it's important to me too. I'll agree with you it IS really annoying. But doesn't perma IP banning for leaving one or two games seem highly unreasonable? There's some things more important in life than the ranked game you're in (barring of course you're in LCS).

Also, no, I don't have that many AFK's in my ranked games. I've maybe had 1-3 total this season. But it happens to the other team just as often as it happens to me.

Of course it's annoying, yes it should be punished, but this is a little extreme.

Defiaskilla3/19/2015, 4:04:26 AM1 votes

Dont really think its all that extreme. If you are constantly having to DC because your internet sucks yet you play ranked anyway. You shouldn't be allowed to. They can still play normals. Im just tired of riot slapping them on the wrists.

Defiaskilla3/22/2015, 10:25:57 PM1 votes

Just lost a ranked game because two afk's . raksai and graves were duo someone died to first blood they both said GG and left the game 5 min in. I deal with stuff like this atleast 3/10 games. We need stricter rules.

Defiaskilla4/16/2015, 2:51:25 AM1 votes

Just had another AFK in ranked. Said "brb have to go hit my bong" and never retured, but yea yall are right, They dont deserve any type of punishment lol