A Solution to Toxic Players

astastaine·5/23/2015, 6:13:05 AM·1 votes·574 views

I think it is unfair that with the current system a player who is trying to communicate during champion selections, must suffer a loss before even entering a game because another player has decided to refuse to communicate with their team. Examples of this include trolls, whiny people, and just overall poor team communication. This presents many issues as this game is very dependent upon communication to win. So rather then just complaining about it I have take the time to think up a system that I think would lend itself to a more useful game experience.

How it Works:

In champion select on the left side would appear a checkbox. This is called the forfeit box. If at any time 4 of the boxes are checked together a pause will occur, and the team with the checked boxes will vote. There is a 15 second time limit so a player who is voting against forfeiting would not click any teammates name. If 4/5 teammates vote in favor of forfeiting on a team by selecting at least one teammate, they will "forfeit" but this is different from surrendering in game. How so?

  • The forfeiting team must select which players were difficult to communicate with by selecting at least one team members username. This could be done with a scroll bar, logos, or just clicking their box in the champion select menu.

  • The opposing team however shouldn't be punished for their opponents ill communication so I also propose the forfeit would result in the opposing team receiving a small amount of IP.

"What would happen if I was in a match series and my team forfeits? Does this count against me?"

  • No this would not have any affect on LP or match series because no actual match was played. A mutual agreement was made that the team would not work.

Why?

  • Because as a whole I think this system would help to identify toxic players, therefore strengthening the League community and also attracting more players to the game for a richer game experience.

  • To identify toxic players in the community who are making it difficult for other players to continue enjoying this game.

  • To reduce number of people dodging.

Please comment below with suggestions and feedback about improvements to this or whether you think it will be useful and why. But please, if your not going to contribute meaningfully and respectfully, then don't say anything at all.

EDIT: Almost forgot this is for Ranked only. Not for normals.

6 Comments

Sarutobi5/23/2015, 6:22:03 AM1 votes

So basically Duo's would rule over the team? if the votes need 4 out of the 5 people on the team to actually quit, then this would be unfair to people playing with friends because they can just abuse the process. This is the same problem with surrendering right now, it sucks, but needs some way so that Duo's cannot basically rule overall!