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A random idea for getting rid of peoples runes

Śilver skye··2 votes·485 views

I know this would probably be way to hard to implement and such but here goes.

Alright so to make it fair for newer players and also make the older players feel like they acually achived something for all there work I think there should be a Tier reward system and it should look something like this,

Tier 1: anyone who has spent 0 ip to 10,000 ip should get there ip back up to 10,000 ip, this will help new players that instead of getting champs they bought 1 or two then saved up to get a few rune pages and all the runes needed to fill them in, since there friends said hey you'll be just weaker unless you get runes so instead of playing and getting things the saved up and filled in there rune pages.... getting ip back gives a chance to use there ip on 10ish champs they should have gotten but instead get the runes becasue they where told not to get champs intill they have enough runes... it would really suck for a new player who played there 1st 150 games just to lose all of there progress or 95% of there progress, that would be too punishing for newer players and seems like an easy fix 10,000 ip

tier 2: 50,000 5 box's/ keys lots people have spent this much on them so its kinda just easy and fun little gift

Tier 3: 100,000 A cool ward skin something a pile of runes on fire or embering/smoldering or something

Tier 4: 200,000 2 gemstones , it's something thats rare and that not many people have capped out on .. so everyone could get that and think its a very nice reward

Tier 5: 300,000 this one will be frowned apon by riot so it might need to be changed but 2500 rp thats a lot of worked put in by very loyal players who put in a lot of hours in, people who put that much time and dedication should be rewarded by something they could use for a reward of there choosing

Tier 6: 397,000 (might be wrong but i think thats the price for all the runes dis-including rune-pages, since i think that should be a separate thing) they should get something awesome, an exclusive skin (definitely a ryze skin not a fan of him but he's the rune mage... and so people who got 100% of every rune should get a exclusive rune mage skin it just fits in my mind) to so show that they have played for so long or spend so much time to get all the runes to not just get there time taken away but to earn something awesome, On average, a 37 minute win will earn approximately 100 IP, and a 37 minute loss will earn approximately 68 IP averagely thats 84 ip every 37 minutes equaling to almost 175,000 minute, almost 3000 hours, 121 and a half days of time they spent to get all of them just to have that achievement of having every rune.. so if its going to be taking away something they achieved... then giving something exclusive makes it an achievement instead of a waste so it would be like look at this trouphy i got for putting 121 days of my time for this awesome skin.. or something..

As for rune pages, if they spend real money on it... eh.. they should get there rp back inbox's/keys equal rp spend divided by 195 since thats how much a box/key combo costs

8 Comments

ValyrianBlade2 votes

I just want my IP back. That's all.

Screw the arguments that some people have all IP buyable things. They'd just have more IP if they didn't spend it on runes. Maybe some RP if you really feel bad for them (e.g. they bought champs with RP because they knew they needed their IP for runes at the time).

The people who suffer from the change are the ones who spent IP on runes when they had other uses for the IP. The best, and fairest, reward for those people is a full (or at least high partial) refund. If you want legacy content or interesting side bonuses you're asking to be rewarded for choosing to play a game. I don't think that's necessary but obviously wouldn't say no. However I would be upset to NOT get my IP back because Riot wants to give people a specific skin or stuff along those lines. I don't need that skin. I want the 70 champions I don't own because I've spent 45k IP on runes and rune pages.

DrCyanide1 votes

I want the 70 champions I don't own because I've spent 45k IP on runes and rune pages.

I suspect that rather than outright refunding IP/RP they'd probably give out either Mystery Champion chests or Hextech Crafting chests + Blue Essence. Both result in filling out your Champion Pool, which in the end is what you're shooting for (and what you'd do with the IP if you hadn't spent it on Runes anyway)

Alternatively, I suspect that there will be a new system added to the game that uses IP, so we might be given free content for that system.

I'm pretty "whatever" about the whole thing. I've never viewed League of Legends in the same light as Pokemon, so owning all the champions hasn't ever really been a driving force for me. I still don't own 6 of the 450 IP champions, despite being given Kayle, Ryze, and Alistar for free. (Two friends main Amumu and Soraka, so I bought those to trade with them. It means I've only purchased 3 of the 450 IP champions because I wanted to use them.)

I think I've gotten decent use out of the Runes I've got, and while it was a pain getting started it's been kinda fun to have wonky pages (like +15% CDR right off the bat for Nasus to get stacks, or + 33.5% Critical Strike Damage on Jhin or Gangplank). I'm really looking forward to the new runes though, since I do think that most of the time the +X Stat factor of Runes is boring.

ValyrianBlade1 votes

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I suspect that rather than outright refunding IP/RP they'd probably give out either Mystery Champion chests or Hextech Crafting chests + Blue Essence. Both result in filling out your Champion Pool, which in the end is what you're shooting for (and what you'd do with the IP if you hadn't spent it on Runes anyway)

Alternatively, I suspect that there will be a new system added to the game that uses IP, so we might be given free content for that system.

I'm pretty "whatever" about the whole thing. I've never viewed League of Legends in the same light as Pokemon, so owning all the champions hasn't ever really been a driving force for me. I still don't own 6 of the 450 IP champions, despite being given Kayle, Ryze, and Alistar for free. (Two friends main Amumu and Soraka, so I bought those to trade with them. It means I've only purchased 3 of the 450 IP champions because I wanted to use them.)

I think I've gotten decent use out of the Runes I've got, and while it was a pain getting started it's been kinda fun to have wonky pages (like +15% CDR right off the bat for Nasus to get stacks, or + 33.5% Critical Strike Damage on Jhin or Gangplank). I'm really looking forward to the new runes though, since I do think that most of the time the +X Stat factor of Runes is boring.

I agree largely with what you've said.

I don't want all of the champions to play them all. I want all of them to have the versatility to trade picks with other players. There are times I want an early pick (like since Ahri is my only mid laner and when she gets popular I want to have her first picked). There are times I want a late pick (top lane has some pretty hard counters and I don't play the power picks, so I'd rather pick late). I can't really do that when I own less than half of the champions though. There's no guarantee I can give my ally what they want in return for their pick, even if I do convince them to swap pick order. It's not even worth trying most of the time.

There are some champions I would like to try. Most of the time they end up being 6300 IP. Which puts a big dent in the pool when I currently have 35K and am worried about any of them getting nerfed at any time. If I had almost all of them, that wouldn't be a worry. I'd just buy what I want. If I had an extra 40-50k IP that wasn't spent on my 10 rune pages and the tier 3 runes for them, I'd probably be near owning all of the champions. Not there yet (there are too many 6300s) but I'd be a lot closer.

It's a side conversation, but I don't like their discounting process. All it does is stuff more and more champions in to the 4800 price, keeps the 6300 the same size. That's not good, every new champion adds 4800 IP (every third adds about 3500) to the total cost. We only get like 150 per game. That's 320 games between champion releases just to keep up - not exactly a small number.

DrCyanide1 votes

I agree that the discount process feels too slow. Kha'Zix came out 5 years ago and is still full price. Games like Dishonored came out around that time, and they're discounted and have a sequel already, so clearly we need a Kha'zix 2 and Kha'zix needs a price reduction :)

Śilver skye1 votes

No, the new system will be like the mastery's will be free since they are fusing the runes and mastery's together

Dokkaebi1 votes

So someone with 0 runes could just buy a single rune and get 10,000 ip for free? Sounds fair.

Śilver skye1 votes

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So someone with 0 runes could just buy a single rune and get 10,000 ip for free? Sounds fair.

should get there ip back up to 10,000 ip, up to meaning equal to how much they spent up to a cap of 10,000 if the spent 410 they would get what they spent 410 you get what you put in up to 10,000

Pantheon Forever1 votes

NO!!! literally if they did this I would quit on the spot forever.

I purchased all tier 3 runes almost 500k ip i want refund so i can get all the champs i should have if runes not remastered.

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