Dominion/Crystal Scar must come back !

mhDK·Mar 25, 2018·4 votes·2,349 views

In this board . I want to gather some things others have written about getting crystal-scar /dominion back

Toxikk Beast - I can't even tell you how pissed off i am. Literally feel like cursing out every riot member i see. It has been around for so long and have a ton of loyal players who are on it daily. SR is boring after playing it all day everyday. Same damn thing all the time. Dominion offered a break from the stress of solo queue for a lot of players, myself included. I don't care about an update just keep the mode. I can't even understand any logic behind it. Whoever decision this was, i feel like telling them some horrible things right now, but i will be cool before i get banned. But honestly they are stupid.

AnOrangeSealion - Getting rid of Crystal Scar in Customs makes zero sense. If you want to get rid of the matchmaking queue then fine, do so but leave the custom games option up for anyone who wants to goof around on the map.

AsianOnboard - HOW THE HELL AM I GOING TO PLAY HIDE AND SEEK IN CUSTOMS!

Parceval - My primary concern with short-cycle event based mini-games is that they're not around in customs for us to experiment and generate new ideas. Hell, LoL itself exists because of 'custom' games. They should be supporting this far more than they currently are.

5 Comments

ModThe DjinnMar 25, 20181 votes

Dominion will not be making a comeback as a recurring game mode. Riot did an article on why a while back, which you can find here. Here are some of the biggest takeaways:

Fewer than 0.5% of players actively play Dominion and we’re aware some number of even that small population is still bots.

We’ve trapped ourselves in a vicious cycle where the queue isn’t large enough to warrant major attention, but falls prey to bugs and periods of imbalance from the introduction of new champs and items

Dominion games can match up widely divergent skill levels after long enough queue times.

When it comes to the resources required to keep Dominion permanent and solve the inherent design problems and give it ongoing live balance support, we’ve consistently devoted them to Summoner’s Rift and related features because we felt they’d improve the overall League experience more.

mhDKMar 25, 20181 votes

There are not so many players on the matchmaking part so that part is lost for now But it could be nice if it came back in custom games

ModThe DjinnMar 25, 20181 votes

{quoted}But it could be nice if it came back in custom games

I suspect it's one of the first ones Riot looked into as far as rotating game modes go, but I think it's difficult to support as a rotating game mode for a number of reasons.

If it DID come back, I'd expect to see it more heavily limited in terms of which champions are available on it, and perhaps which items -- it seems like the gamemode might have more potential with a type-specific cast, such as all assassins or all fighters.

BionessMar 26, 20181 votes

He said custom games, not rotating game modes. I read the post that you linked and I see no reason why we aren't allowed to use the map in custom games where many player game modes were done. With the removal of Dominion from custom games, hide and seek and other modes that used it were instantly gone as a fun alternative to Summoner's Rift.

mhDKMar 25, 20181 votes

In my opinion, something is missing because when there is no rotating game mode, it becomes boring when it's only solo que all the time. crystal scar was a good method to take a break from the tryharding part and go and play some fun hide and seek or the normal game mode in the crystal scar