Why is character auto select on afk a thing? - Redtracker

Timmos

I'm sorry, this has probably been discussed a hundred times over.

But i am sick of people going afk, having client issues or for what ever reason not being able able to make a sleection in champion select and being "randomed" a character.

I can't see any benefits of this existing. If someone doesn't make a selection, kick them from the queue - particularly now given the proposal to the removal of queue dodging elo loss.

Nobody wants to sit through a game having to play support anivia with smite and jungle runes and nobody wants to play a game with a support anivia with smite and jungle runes (i'm paraphrasing of course).

FYI -

Originally Posted by RiotKiddington

We understand that losing elo from dodging does not make sense. We asked ourselves the question “how is dodging affect one’s skill level”, and we reached the same conclusion that dodging will not make a player better or worse in terms of their skill level. So, a change has been proposed by game design, and it has been implemented by Riot engineering. In the new implementation: ranked dodge will not cause any elo loss, instead some other form of discouragement has been added. This change should be released within a month.

Thumbs up or down if you do or don't agree

11 months, 2 weeks ago

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RiotBahamut

Associate Software Engineer

It is indeed a thing. We do not like that it is a thing. We want to make a better thing.

We are looking in to solutions to making a better thing

11 months, 1 week ago

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RiotBahamut

Associate Software Engineer

As you folks have pointed out, there are indeed some good and simple fixes to this problem. That doesn't necessarily translate to the implementation being simple, however. Changes to the core game loop like this can be deceptively sensitive. Regardless of that, let me at least affirm that the value of these types of changes have not been lost on us. If there is an opportunity to provide a more detailed and meaningful update, I will be sure to keep you all posted

11 months, 1 week ago

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RiotKiddington

Platform Engineer

RiotTantram would like me to tell you guys, he heard your concerns and he is working on a solution to address this problem. From what I have seen, his solution is pretty nice...

RiotTantram is driving home right now, that's why he sends RiotKiddington to be his messenger.

11 months, 1 week ago

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RiotBahamut

Associate Software Engineer

Originally Posted by RiotKiddington

He and I have been duo-laning against this issue like a couple pros, hoping to carry the player experience to the platinum tier. Cloth armor + caffeine pots. Sustain OP.

11 months, 1 week ago

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RiotKiddington

Platform Engineer

Originally Posted by Rauron

That's great, but why was this issue ever an issue in the first place? Why has it taken this long?

Riot was a small company (and it still is), back in the early days we do not have the resource to implement a lot of small features like this, we are forced to deal with what we have in terms of engineering resources, what the game design and business requirements are at the moment and prioritize on features and bug fixes that are most important based on set of metrics. So whenever this feature come up and match against other more critical feature/bug fixes, this feature always get de-prioritized. This happened to the First Win of the Day Timer for a long time until we finally addressed the issue:

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/...d.php?t=530767

As Riot Games grows in size, we will have extra engineering resource to deal with kind of issue in the future. One thing I can tell you is that, Riot Engineers are working very hard every day to make this game a better game for you.

11 months, 1 week ago

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