I Can't Play Dominion Anymore, & Riot Can Fix That

LignjaHal·Apr 26, 2015·7 votes·1,093 views

Today I decided to play a couple of PvP dominion games for fun. But when I entered into the games, I noticed something wrong. 9 of the players in my 2 games were bots. And really bad ones too. In the first game, the entire enemy team were obviously bots it was identified in the chat, and the game ended quickly. I reported all of the bot players, hopefully so that Riot notices. The next game, my entire team were bots as well, again it was identified in the chat, and was obvious because of my "un-botness", and I reported them all again. In looking through the forums I noticed that this has been a problem for YEARS. One that has obviously not been solved and one that has turned me off from playing Dominion until I can be certain that I can actually play with REAL people.

Riot please work on changing this, this doesn't help your game or your player base...

5 Comments

FDruApr 26, 20153 votes

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this doesn't help your game or your player base...

Less bots in SR = helps the playerbase they actually give any shits about.

RebonackApr 26, 20153 votes

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Less bots in SR = helps the playerbase they actually give any shits about.

This is, sadly, accurate.

Riot doesn't care if Dominion and TT are infested with bots so long as they aren't bothering new players in Summoner's Rift. This problem was caused when Riot removed the XP/IP rewards from custom games. Instead of discouraging botters they just moved to Dominion. Riot could end the issue in an instant by bringing back custom XP/IP rewards, but I suspect poisoning new players against Not-Rift maps is an upside in the eyes of Morello and Friends.

Nicodemus GreyApr 26, 20152 votes

I have seen tons of bots in ARAM as well. This is ridiculous. I'm fairly new to the game and it is VERY discouraging to see how many bots are being allowed to continue to ruin the fun of this game. I'm afraid that I won't be able to keep playing if nothing is done - obviously there is a systemic problem if the creators of the game don't care enough to delete the botters accounts.

One simple way they could keep bots out of games would be to add a captcha to the queue mechanism. Before you are allowed to queue you should have to answer a captcha. This would make it so that everyone in the queue is probably human. Just a suggestion, perhaps there are other means by which to fix this problem...

Either way this is really frustrating.

FDruApr 27, 20152 votes

[{quoted}](name=Nicodemus Grey,realm=NA,application-id=LFfTlAky,discussion-id=iuQQdvM5,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2015-04-26T19:26:12.769+0000) Just a suggestion, perhaps there are other means by which to fix this problem...

There is, but it would mean potentially hurting Riot's bottom line, which means marketing is going to have a shitfit at the mere suggestion (that is, obviously, removing the hideous XP grind to 30). And we can't forget the legion of forumtards who seem to love these shitty systems and insist it would ruin the entire game if they removed it.