A little suggestion Regarding the Wintrading situation.

[Araxes]

Its by far not a Solution for the Whole thing. But maybe a little step into the right direction.

I noticed (and many others too) that wintrading players often decline the invite when theyr Wintrading partners dont get invites too to avoid honest playing people.

So in another MMO (not sure if im allowed to mention it here) a declined !Rated! PvP match immediatly counts as a loss and lowers your Ranking. When i was playing soloqueue in the Early morning hours i sometimes had 3 declines in a row after getting the invite window popping. So that would have counted as 3 losses for those people. Maybe that would be a step forward to give those cheaters a little Wall to walk into.

I for myself stoped playing rated for the moment. It just feels pointless especially when i see people on the top 100 that clearly dont belong there and it gets even worse since SE isnt really doing anything against it wich encourages even more players to do it.

Just my 2 cents.

Have a nice Day.

[KusoWat]

Not the worst idea, and arguably better than what we have now. The issue with this is that it now becomes too risky to afk when the queue for some roles is over 30 minutes at times.

[Araxes]

Not the worst idea, and arguably better than what we have now. The issue with this is that it now becomes too risky to afk when the queue for some roles is over 30 minutes at times.

There is always a downside i guess. But the positive effects outweight the negative effects in my opinion.

[BloodRubyXII]

Wait this isn't already a thing? YES PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN. I know the MMR in question, and I'm pretty sure I've played the same one and been punished for AFKs, loading screens taking too long and blocking me out of the queue, queues not popping for me etc (if it's the game I'm thinking of, I was 3K MMR in Season 15 and it could take up to 20 minutes for a queue sometimes because the only other teams would be queueing were ones that were willing to risk their rating because they were positive we were counter comped). But these are worthy sacrifices when you don't want win-trading/premades in solo q to be made easy. I mean it'll happen anyway, but anything to make it harder I would welcome.

I'll be trying out ranked when the new season starts, what're the tank queues like on an off-topic note Araxes?

[Llus]

I could get behind this 100% Queues are long and trying to go AFK for a couple of minutes usually doesn't hurt anything, but I'll routinely drop queue if I need to AFK as it is. It would be a bit of a hassle for a lot of people to drop queue if they needed to AFK; but I agree the benefit would certainly outweigh the negative.

[Magic-Mal]

I'm on board with this! As long as canceling only hurts your rank when the queue has actually popped

[Titor]

I support this change

[Araxes]

I'll be trying out ranked when the new season starts, what're the tank queues like on an off-topic note Araxes?

Its different from Time to time. When i tryed to play last time as a Tank with platinum Rank it showed 30 minutes + in the evening. Then it opened up at like 3 am in the morning and got multiple declines with no further pop. As is said i stoped playing rated for the moment, hoping SE does something against this situation. With a lower rank you should get invites more faster.

BTT:
Im glad this Thread recieves mostly positive replys. Maybe we can make this happen if enough people are intrested in this.

[Culfinrandir]

I am thoroughly behind this. I haven't played ranked since first trying at release (I got bad toxicity poisoning so stopped). A friend & I are looking at next season but I've noticed the same issues of dodgy queue popping in unranked too where people are trying to get with certain 'co-conspirators'. This would be a great solution!

[SuperZay]

I don't think it'll work.
If people will lose the same amount in legit match (and wintraders always lose legit matches) and by withdrawing, they'll prefer withdrawing to being humilated/spotted by a legit team.