I love the passive gold gain in Dominion, and the passive EXP gain. I really do. Not only is it key to enable the game mode, but it has an absolutely fantastic side-effect; if something happens to a player (be it a real life emergency, computer troubles or something else entirely) they can jump back into the game at little or no disadvantage.

I was wondering, has Riot ever considered porting specifically the latter feature to Classic? I know there's some kind of coding in there that handles the whole "unkillable if afk on the turret" scenario to prevent people free-farming with Karthus ultimates and the like. Is it possible that we could tack on a crystal-scar style aura for disconnected players that gives them a small amount of passive gold and EXP gain? I, for one, think it would be really good because one of my biggest gripes with Classic is that if someone is missing for really any period of time the game is almost immediately over. Unless you're significantly better than the team you face (and I do mean MUCH better) you're already lost the game because you simply won't be able to catch up from that disadvantage.

So... what are the odds of having very small passive gold generation and EXP gain for disconnected players? Not enough to keep them at par, but enough that there's an increased chance of a comeback with good, honest play? Levels throughout the match can be tracked very easily and I don't think it could be abused if it was fine-tuned properly... it would have to be VERY enticing for it to be more useful than leaving the game 4v5.

Thoughts? Opinions? Never gonna get a red post? Ever?

I'd even just love a "This is a neat idea", really. Knowing that there's the possibility of it being on the drawing board would make me hopeful.

Edit: Just for clarification (in case there's any confusion) only the disconnected player would gain the passive benefits. Phreak's post mentions the entire team getting additional gold and while I'm not sure whether or not he misread me, I think there's the possibility a number of people are misinterpreting my post as a result.

tons of abusables.

What about simply replacing a leaver with a bot that's worth minimum gold?
It's better than nothing.

@phreak I don't think he's talking about global xp/gold, I think he's talking about only the dc'er getting the xp/gold... At a rate reduced to what they would normally get in game.

I was going to try to come up with an alternate system that wouldn't be abusable. Sadly, if the free EXP/Gold is significant enough to matter, it's able to be abused. If it's some kind of sharing option (thus the EXP/Gold isn't free), then you're just investing in someone who probably isn't going to ever be useful in the expected case and it's probably STILL going to be open to abuse (in the metagamed case).

if i have to afk and expect to be back, i just buy all gp5. usually though, i just make sure i dont have to leave in the first place