League of Legends

[peacedog]

RIOT eventually bands their account.

LOL

No seriously.

[Anti-Bunny]

Because people get discouraged? Because sometimes helping someone is a matter of being supportive? Because there’s value in trying to improve the level of interaction instead of sinking to someone’s else’s level? Because it’s really not that hard to take the higher road when it comes to online interaction? Because if you’re an asshole to that guy, it’s just going to make him that much more likely to be an asshole to someone else?

I guess the bottom line is that if you care about the community, telling someone to he sucks and that he should get the fuck out – as you suggested – when he says that he’s getting discouraged is far more destructive than the guy who’s getting discouraged.

-Tom

You can’t be serious.

[espressojim]

You can’t be serious.

For people who are trying and sucking, you provide leadership and guidance. I’ve found in solo queue ranked that when a person who’s doing badly (playing badly, not griefing) gets a pat on the back when they do something right, their game often seems to improve. Positive reinforcement works for people who are less skilled. For griefers, it’s a waste of time. They dine on your tears.

On a completely different topic, I though I’d post something I found incredibly useful for playing lol on the US and EU servers. I ran this program, and it seems to have gotten me marginally better (15% improvement) pings on both servers. Maybe it’s just my imagination, but it got my EU ping from 135-150 to 105-110. It may help quite a bit for the euro folk who visit the US servers and vice-versa.

[Anti-Bunny]

For people who are trying and sucking, you provide leadership and guidance.

Trying and sucking is not the same as threatening your team with AFKing.

And no, I don’t care about the LoL “community”. God help you if you do, high elo games are a parade of assholes.

[peacedog]

For people who are trying and sucking, you provide leadership and guidance. I’ve found in solo queue ranked that when a person who’s doing badly (playing badly, not griefing) gets a pat on the back when they do something right, their game often seems to improve. Positive reinforcement works for people who are less skilled. For griefers, it’s a waste of time. They dine on your tears.

I agree with that. People have bad games. It happens to all of us. Being a dick doesn’t help anything. People who start complaining and harassing at the first “bad” occurence are just going to worsen the game if not the target’s play.

[skyride]

Speaking of rage quitters, we had a guy rage quit less than a minute into the game because a teammate corrected him that the top lane is usually the solo lane. He thought it was the bottom lane so he disconnected.

[peacedog]

Speaking of rage quitters, we had a guy rage quit less than a minute into the game because a teammate corrected him that the top lane is usually the solo lane. He thought it was the bottom lane so he disconnected.

It’s odd how often I bump into that one actually (not the rage quit, but people thinking bot should be the 1v2 lane).

[McKnight]

Because people get discouraged? Because sometimes helping someone is a matter of being supportive? Because there’s value in trying to improve the level of interaction instead of sinking to someone’s else’s level? Because it’s really not that hard to take the higher road when it comes to online interaction? Because if you’re an asshole to that guy, it’s just going to make him that much more likely to be an asshole to someone else?

I guess the bottom line is that if you care about the community, telling someone to he sucks and that he should get the fuck out – as you suggested – when he says that he’s getting discouraged is far more destructive than the guy who’s getting discouraged.

-Tom

Tom I think you aren’t on the same page as I am. I’m not talking about bad players, I have no problem playing with anyone regardless of their skill level (I’ve been playing through like 4 generations of new people joining after all). I’m talking about people who go out of their way to be intentionally disruptive and ruin the other 4 people’s experience. These are two completely different things, and I say that with about 1000 games under my belt.

But whatever, the others have clearly elaborated better then I could. I think Bunny hit the nail on the head with

Trying and sucking is not the same as threatening your team with AFKing.

Like I said earlier, it’s the one thing that really gets to me. I don’t know how you ended up going off on a different tangent from that.

[Sir_Digby]

I miss LoL, haven’t played in like… 3 months? Got a new laptop so I reckon I’ll download the client and drop by the Euro servers tonight. :)

[espressojim]

Trying and sucking is not the same as threatening your team with AFKing.

And no, I don’t care about the LoL “community”. God help you if you do, high elo games are a parade of assholes.

I completely agree with you, except that I think the low ELO people are worse.

[espressojim]

It’s odd how often I bump into that one actually (not the rage quit, but people thinking bot should be the 1v2 lane).

If you explain that dragon is bottom, and that it’s better to have 4 people go to dragon than 3, they may get WHY 2 people go bot. That’s what I’ve done, and occasionally I get the response of “oh, ok”. Thankfully, my ELO has climbed out of needing to explain that one…:)

[peacedog]

If you explain that dragon is bottom, and that it’s better to have 4 people go to dragon than 3, they may get WHY 2 people go bot. That’s what I’ve done, and occasionally I get the response of “oh, ok”. Thankfully, my ELO has climbed out of needing to explain that one…:)

I’ve found explaining why is usually helpful. But there’s no dealing with some people, heh.

[McKnight]

I miss LoL, haven’t played in like… 3 months? Got a new laptop so I reckon I’ll download the client and drop by the Euro servers tonight. :)

Yay! :)

[Banzai]

Agreed - I would far prefer to have a competitive test game against good bots first than what we have at the moment which is you can pretty much try any champion and whether you are good or not you will feel like a god :)

Have you tried a custom game in the last few days Tals? I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

[Sir_Digby]

Yay! :)

:)

Hey! Still waiting for that Christmas Starcraft present, you bastard!

[peacedog]

Who is in the free rotation this week?

[McKnight]

:)

Hey! Still waiting for that Christmas Starcraft present, you bastard!

I’m sowi :(

Funds got a bit tighter then expected this Christmas.

[forgeforsaken]

Speaking of rage quitters, we had a guy rage quit less than a minute into the game because a teammate corrected him that the top lane is usually the solo lane. He thought it was the bottom lane so he disconnected.

I was totally nice about it too! And it’s not like I told him he had to stay bot and 2v2, I would have switched if he wanted. I even explained why it should be bot as that having 2 would help with Dragon control.

[espressojim]

I was totally nice about it too! And it’s not like I told him he had to stay bot and 2v2, I would have switched if he wanted. I even explained why it should be bot as that having 2 would help with Dragon control.

You know you’ve hit ELO hell when you get these responses:

1. WHO CARES, ASS?
2. whutz dragon trolololo

[Pogo]

For Pogo:

Guardsman bob is quite good at lol, and plays a lot of Xin. He streams regularly, and does great commentary.

He’s alright.