Its a joke that I have to wait in line with 1000000 people who have never cared about PBE before. I don't like having to wait behind people who only come on to play to try out the new champion and then just leave after 1 game.

There are a few of us who have been consistently playing on PBE even during times when there is no hype, or who joined when PBE first opened. There are those of us who actually report feedback.

It is those of us who actually care about PBE who should be let log in first. Its stupid to wait 2 hours to log in, not being able to play normal LoL because the clients conflict just because some kid wants to try out nami for 1 game and then get bored and quit.

Not big supporter of this idea (despite being quite consistent tester for more than year). Why? Quite simple, it would require extraordinary amount of resources (just think about it....as a Riot employee you would have to check EVERY SINGLE ACCOUNT in order to find out who did participate in pbe's life). Also it would cause players to argue who has been more useful for PBE's community. Afterwards we would hear a MASSIVE outcry from people who weren't chosen by Riot, many of them would try to convince Riot to re-inspect their accounts. Of course Riot would have to refuse this request (because it would consume even more time, which is extremely precious), and people will start creating even more threads about the Riot's "Unfairness"

All in all, this idea would bring more harm than help. So I am against it

Best Regards,
Nixodrius

Too bad you feel that way. PBE should be a place where it is a privilage to get in and help test. Only the most productive people should be allowed in. Half the reason this is a good idea is that it allows more impactful players to come and play and give feedback to riot. Who cares if some baby cries that he isn't special? PBE is already semi-exclusive, it should just focus to whom it is exclusive to. This way riot gets more feedback faster. If 100 players that give feedback have 2 hours to play but can't because of log in queues, but instead 100 players ahead of them just want to play the new champion get it, is riot benefiting? Nope. Neither is the playerbase at large.

Situation you are describing had taken place once......in the mid-november last year. We had around 100 people who were eager to help (Do not really know whether you was betatester at this time, sorry )......but such small amount of testers from different time zones weren't able to track bugs effectively. At this particular time Riot had opened sign-ups (it used to be invitation-only envirnoment) for a short time, but still it wasn't enough. Situation has changed dramatically with Lulu patch when the Sign-ups were perma-opened. I am not saying that your idea is bad in its core, but introducing it would be more harmful. Reverting PBE to its original state it's not an option (since PBE wouldn't be able to work effectively) and as I said selecting "worthy" players would consume way too much time (with over 20k acounts, it is very hard to inspect who is putting enough effort) and would cause animosity within the community.

I hope that my opinion does not offend you in any way, I'm just giving another point of view which in my opinion should be taken into consideration.

Best regards,
Nixodrius

Actually if there was some kind of automatic queue algorithm that logged people on faster with frequency of play it would help some situations.

Say you're in pbe and the client freezes on the loading screen. This has been happening more and more since the Elise patch. Now you have to close the client and relog to get back into the game and test.

Well... good luck, the queue is 2+ hours! Your team's gonna be mad at you.

However if Riot implemented a system that allowed people who were logged on most recently to be prioritized in the queue, you could get back in. The tester who is currently in a game has highest priority. The tester who last played 2 days ago will have priority over the tester who last played a week ago, but to make it fair to new signups the tester who has not played at all has priority over the tester who last played a week ago.

Prioritize by:

1. Are they in a game right now?
2. Have they played a match within the last 2 days?
3. Have they never played a match?
3. Have they played a match within the last 3-7 days?
4. Have they played a match within the last 8-14 days?

What's your definition of a "consistent" PBE player?

Er, actually the ones with the most priority would have to be the ones that log in nearly the LEAST. People who play PBE every day several times a day are not testing. There's rarely enough to test for that to happen.

Of course, the current PBE patch is very large and contains a lot of new stuff, so obviously there's a lot to test right now. But that doesn't mean there always was or will be a lot to test.