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Team Builder Leaving Too Many Game Punishments?

Manic Aggressor·3/28/2015, 6:07:30 PM·2 votes·1,034 views

So, I have a few things to talk about here regarding the Team Builder game mode, well 2 or 3

  1. Team Builder - I love it, I use it everyday I want to play and I usually have a good time with it, points to Riot for making such an awesome game mode, keep up the great work fellas

That's the only good thing, here is what I don't like about it

  1. The amount of people that leave - I'm sick and tired of people joining my game, and because I only have a top lane player, they leave, and yet I get penalized because I "kicked" the player and have to wait x seconds to accept another player of the same role

  2. No punishment for those players - I believe that players that leave too many lobbies get penalized and have to wait x seconds to rejoin the que, it could be an automatic rejoin, like the penalty you receive for leaving too many games in blind pick, it annoys me so much that I get penalized but the person that left MY game can keep jumping from game to game without a care in the world and without getting penalized

If you agree with me and believe that players should be punished for "lobby hopping" and that as the host you shouldn't be penalized for the player leaving your lobby, help me make sure Riot sees this please by bumping this post :)

3 Comments

DeadlyQuestion3/29/2015, 10:31:39 AM1 votes

You say you can't stand when they leave just because they're the first person to queue in. I can't stand it when they leave just because they're not the last. It's much better than it use to be, but it's still prevalent and aggravating as hell. I don't particularly remember getting a timer because they left though, only when I have to reject or kick them. But I guess I could be wrong.

They do have a punishment, though I agree it's not enough to prevent the behavior. Just like you have to wait X amount of seconds incrementally for every kick/rejection you've issued, they have to wait incrementally longer before every "Team found!" prompt they reject, pushing the "Find another group" button, or completely leave the queue.

Lobby hopping isn't inherently a bad thing. I accept games all the time that have a team I am not comfortable with playing in. Team Builder is suppose to make it easier to build fantasy team compositions, but you shouldn't have to be forced to accept a lone Shen bot, duo mid, and duo top. They need to modify it so when you're looking to join a team, you can select what type of team you're willing to join. Any? Classic meta? Duo jg? That's just an idea, an example to help maybe prevent innocent lobby hopping with stingy lobby hopping.

Big Bang Bob3/30/2015, 2:18:17 AM1 votes

They should show the team comp so if I don't like the number of players or the comp, I can take my chances switching.

Matthias91193/30/2015, 4:49:13 AM1 votes

...the person that left MY game can keep jumping from game to game without a care in the world and without getting penalized...

This is not true. If you leave enough lobbies in a short time it will make you wait before requeueing.

I think the idea on imposing a wait time on captains that keep getting abandoned is that they don't want people to troll by creating lobbies that nobody wants to play in because you're looking for triple mid with Darius ADC (or whatever).

Of course, it would help if you could search by laning configuration. That way the captains who want some oddball laning setup and the players willing to try it could actually get matched up efficiently.