Making competitive leavers a little less unfair

[FatBluDragon-2951]

@Shimichan-2762

This would be the opposite of the “best thing” in my opinion since a bot will simply feed them extra ult charge beyond what they are getting already from you having less teammates to work with and losing almost every fight.

I think you haven’t understood it correctly. Imagine an AI which learns through neural network and your playstyle how to play. In an ideal scenario, that AI would be a copy of you and you wouldn’t notice that the leaver got replaced.

Right now, however, such an AI is impossible to make.

@Shimichan-2762

On top of that if you think people joining a game in progress would play worse cause they wouldn’t take it too seriously, with all due respect, i would take a bad player anyday over a blizzard bot that just feeds their brains out and can’t do anything else. Dunno about you. I guess we all have our preferences but i still consider the original posters idea to be a good idea with or without SR loss and at least from my perspective the ONLY viable solution i have seen so far that doesn’t result in it being any worse than it currently is and with a high chance of making it better.

I do like the Idea of backfilling but it has its problems. How do you deal with the backfill? A compensation for the backfill for losing would either result in less serious players or SR inflation because your SR gain/loss ratio as a backfill is better than as a non-backfill. This would make competitive even worse because SR would lose its value.

@Shimichan-2762

Again agree to disagree but instead of complaining about how it’s a bad idea… how about i dunno… i know it’s crazy… write down a new one? For more options. I know everyone loves to complain. xD

This:

@FatBluDragon-2951

Another idea, which can’t and mustn’t be enforced by the devs, is self-sacrifice, basically fair-throwing. However, in order to let that work. Everyone in your team must be ok with you staying passive so a fair 5v5 fight can be played. If only one teammate doesn’t want that, you mustn’t do it. Otherwise, you are throwing.

If you want to read the full concept, it’s on this thread.

Odd Suggestion: "Fair Throwing"

There are many players who complain about leavers in comp. Sometimes, there are leavers in QP, too, and for some reason matchmaking doesn’t find a backfill. If that is the case (Only in QP), I’ll tell everyone that I stay passive until a backfill joins. That way, the match is a fair 5v5 fight The “feature” which I’m suggesting is something Blizzard can’t add but the Playerbase. I’m suggesting everyone to “fair throw” in competitive matches. If a team has a leaver, a player of the other team c…

Also, there are already other threads with other Ideas so it’s not worth repeating the obvious ones.

Other Ideas for solving the problem by other people:

• Compensation for leaver’s team
• Backfilling
• AI replaces
• Freezing a player

All of them had flaws. Some were exploitable (Compensation for leaver’s team, Backfilling, AI replaces); Some feel unfair (freezing a player); Some are plainly impossible (decent AI replaces)

This Idea has been posted before so it’s nothing new.

Why 5 people have to suffer for 1 leaver ?

I’m ok with filling competitive games all they need is to pause the game and search for another player with same rank most people don’t want to join a losing game, that’s why they need to make it optional

Replace leaver with bot?

What if… competitive had backfill… You’d get a player of suitable rank, that player can’t gain/lose any rank from the game but will gain some CP. Maybe it could be opt-in if you get backfilled or not.

To cut it short, there are (currently) no solutions that remedy the leaver problem. They just worsen it.

Even my Idea of fair-throwing is possibly a bad one because you either are never able to execute it or it will cause toxicity because your teammates think you want to lose.