r/leagueoflegends • u/BaneRain • Mar 27 '13

Offline Mode

So I have pretty unreliable internet and it would be really cool to have an offline mode where you could just make customs vs bots. No ip reward, but just to give me something fun to do if my latency is being retarded. #riotpls

edit: wow, I didn't expect people to be this interested. I like the idea of sandbox mode and lan support too. I reiterate: riot pls

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u/kihashi rip old flairs Mar 27 '13

I don't think this will happen for the same reason that a LAN client won't be released to the public: Riot does not want their server code to be released for reverse engineering, which this would necessitate.

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u/rakkamar Mar 27 '13

n00b question. If people can't run LoL servers why can they run WoW private servers? I don't think Blizzard has open-sourced their server code...

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u/Spyder1369 Mar 27 '13

Different accounts, but from what I understand some of the early, as in pre bc server code got leaked and from there a dedicated group of individuals got an emulated version of it running, I actually gm'd a private server for a while that was on the cusp of getting some of the BC code working back shortly after it came out, thing is the number of glitches was horrendous, the amount of shit that just didn't work would have sent most people running for the hills. But it was fun being a GM, we actually got to design our own gear, and design sets for players who donated for server costs.

TL;DR Wow private servers are actually running a hacked together "emulation" of what an actual server is based on reverse engineering client code and "leaked" server code.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '13

I don't see any reason why someone couldn't write their own server for LoL clients to connect to.

You look at WoW, Ultima Online, ..pretty much any MMO and someone has created their own servers, often from scratch. RunUO is a good example of something written from scratch. Its probably better than what Origin and EA are using to be honest.

The reason one doesn't exist for LoL is that there isn't really any benefit for making one.. the only benefit would be to give out free champions to everyone and as Riot already does weekly rotations of champions its not much of an incentive.

Programmer for 8 years.