Regarding these account farmers in Dominion
I'm assuming any of you who've been on Reddit or other communities have seen all the links to sites selling LoL accounts, and they claim that they can have an account level 30 in 3 days. Is it true? Absolutely. If you play a Co-Op vs AI Intermediate Dominion game, chances are you're going to get at least 1 person on your team who is a bot. More commonly, you're going to get a full team of them. I've seen 3 queues of bots that pick the same champ every game, and go in the same path every game. It's pretty damn sad, but it also seems to be pretty damn easy for them, since not a lot of people play Dominion compared to the other modes. It's short games, where even losing gives them the XP they want, so they just bot the accounts for 72 hours straight and get them to level 30, then sell them for at least $10 each.
Now, while this may not exactly seem like a problem that's plaguing the community or ruining the game, it really is. The majority of streamers who don't level their accounts by hand or get them from subs, buy them from sites that create them in this fashion. Some of these sites even let you pick a name for the account (from what I've heard). It not only makes smurfing easier for people, but it encourages it.
So, aside from the fact that this utterly ruins the fun of playing Dominion (because, yes, they're in PVP too, and boy do they feed.) it just seems sloppy that it's kinda just.. being ignored. In the nearly 3 years since Dominion has been out, literally 2 of those years it's been filled with bots. This is pretty darn depressing, since the only way I can play a legit Dominion game (without playing so many games I up my MMR for it or something) is to create a custom with 9 other people, which is a hassle to do.
So, tl;dr; what I'm asking is: why not just disable Dominion for a while, until a solution is found? I know some people like the game mode, and I personally like the idea of it as well. But I feel like both the game mode and this issue could use some work, and to even begin stopping smurfing we need to make it as hard as possible from the get-go. If not disable it, disable Co-Op vs AI for the map and add a level cap of at least 15 to the PVP queue for it. This is of course temporary, but it should have a massive effect on these botters. An alternative third option is to take away the XP rewards for the queue temporarily. Either way, it will hinder their market.
Also, regarding what I saw on GD a while back about people not botting customs, it's not true. You can simply fill the entire game with bots, and have them play it out in a macro fashion. While it does infact work, it requires the botters to be pretty damn organized, which is why they prefer Dominion.
Anyway, thoughts/opinions? I'd personally both love to play this game mode legit for once, and like to see this community stop suffering from being botted as much.