SUGGESTION: start of match AFK timer decrease

[Planar-11507]

@Mike-1548

The answer is, they don’t. Because there is no ability to communicate plans to the AI teammate that rely on synergy between 2 or more Heroes, or plans that require more than one combo synergy. This is why teams in Ranked play, that have an AI teammate, are at a disadvantage.

1. What does this have anything to do with making it so AFK players cause less damage to your team in the early game.
2. While it does not always happen, I’ve seen plenty of people who are only AFK for the first 2-3 minutes of a game, due to having gotten up to grab something.
3. Are you suggesting that none of these things happen outside of ranked. And an AI player does not cause a disadvantage in QM or URD?
4. You also don’t explain how taking the current system, and making it slightly less bad would negatively impact ranked play.
5. If you want to talk about changes related to AI/AFKers and ranked play and leaving… MAKE YOUR OWN TOPIC. Don’t try to derail this one.

Please, stay ON topic. Thank you!

[Mike-1548]

I’m stating that there is a larger problem than your original topic states.

You want to introduce a system that reduces the impact of the problem, where-as the solution should be to nullify the problem entirely.