I've been running some development playtests on the PBE recently. Something I noticed is that while a lot of the test games start out really solidly, they occasionally snowball into stompfests.

This isn't particularly helpful for testing new features, so I am adding the /equalize command to let players on the PBE "catch up" the struggling team's gold and XP to their current values. This means if you're having a good match, but lose a couple key teamfights, you can help us out by using /equalize.

this sounds great!!!

I hope you can implement it in versions of ARAM, because I don't like one sided battles in that D:<

Interesting. I hope it doesn't turn into a way to start a game, feed like hell with your team then "equalize" to gain quick lvls/gold. Not that it really matters honestly (and that might be an efficient way to simply get to full build quick to test certain things) but I wouldn't put anything past pointless griefers in PBE.

At minimum, I believe that the Custom Games on Live should recieve Equalize in the near future. This is a great feature for PBE matches, great work.

it be great if we could have an infinite gold mode or almost like the dummy's from WoW so we could see how much we could tank or how much DPS we could dish out, optimum way of using abilities etc without going through a full game

This is actually a pretty solid idea, but would both teams be able to initiate it? Would all 10 players vote on it?

Sometimes it may require the losing team to initiate the vote to equalize because the winning team may not know how truly ahead they are.

Do both teams need to agree?

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That makes sense.