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Riot...us long timers need something to spend IP on...

Caiden··99 votes·8,921 views

Hi, I am posting this in regards to the fact that I have 60k+ IP... and nothing to spend it on. I guess i could use the summoner name change, but i like my handle and I'd prefer to hold onto it. I have been enjoying League since the closed beta, and during my long stretch I have managed to acquire all the runes, champions,rune pages, and various other goodies I was able to spend my IP on. Well now here I sit with nothing to do with all my IP and I would like to suggest that maybe you unlock certain benefits when you own all IP priced items. Maybe the ability to purchase skins with IP, gifting friends a certain amount of IP per day, new special runes/icons/ward skins and such. I still love this game, and will continue to play, but it would be nice to not have that feeling like I've come to a dead end as far as IP goes and there isn't much more that I can do beyond what I have done already. You are creative people and I have faith that if you decide to reward us long time/loyal players it will be something special and fun. Thank You, ~Caiden

95 Comments

ModCaptainMårvelous42 votes

Give us the ability to give champions to friends.

Nothing would help new player experience more than a friend tossing you a champion or two they adore. I'd love more content for me but I really want to share the love with friends.

BuzzinTate1 votes

wait, you can't gift people champions?

ModCaptainMårvelous13 votes

You can, but only with RP.

BuzzinTate2 votes

oooh I see, that'd be neat. But only after all other IP options are exhausted right

MakeThemRemember7 votes

And honestly I've never really seen the point of buying champs with RP. Like...that's kinda...pointless. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Rew7112 votes

If my friend could, he'd just give his 100,000 IP to me (or most of it anyway) as I'd use it in a heartbeat to get a mother load of champions as I'm still 43 shy of them all.

Crossette3 votes

Not with IP. Only with the pleb currency they call RP.

CrazedPorcupine2 votes

not with IP.

Dramos2 votes

(Another comment, agreeing that you can gift champions with RP, but not with IP)

Solaxo4 votes

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Give us the ability to give champions to friends.

Nothing would help new player experience more than a friend tossing you a champion or two they adore. I'd love more content for me but I really want to share the love with friends.

Lol they'd never do that. $$$

ZED G0D8 votes

Beat the game? my boy! I don't see Caiden "Challenger", theres some levels to go!

but to the point: I do agree that they do need to make skins unlock able via IP

Kãtãrinã2 votes

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Beat the game? my boy! I don't see Caiden "Challenger", theres some levels to go!

but to the point: I do agree that they do need to make skins unlock able via IP

make skins unlocked via IP would have to make the ratio of IP to RP. the only reference i see is when buying champions the "ip/or rp value" and the name changer which is 13,900IP or 1300 RP.

Caiden2 votes

Haha true dat... not "Challenger"... probably never will be... but I play for fun for the most part, 75% of my games are normals and ARAM's. Trying to move into the much to the higher ranked tiers is almost a full time job, and I work to much to pull that off. Besides Gold ain't half bad....

Koldheartedjsp4 votes

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make skins unlocked via IP would have to make the ratio of IP to RP. the only reference i see is when buying champions the "ip/or rp value" and the name changer which is 13,900IP or 1300 RP.

not skins cus rito needs to make moolaz but ward skins may be good

LeeDark2 votes

Yeah, they posted gross profit of a billion dollars last year. I think they can probably afford to let people who have bought LITERALLY EVERYTHING YOU CAN with IP spend the extra IP on skins.

EfficientDynamo9 votes

It might be worthwhile for Riot if you could buy skins boosts (per game) with IP. In theory could get people hooked on having skins too.

Shosuko3 votes

I think this is a solid idea, make the skin boost an IP thing too. I would NEVER buy a skin boost with RP, but I'd definitely sink some IP into it.

Sukishoo2 votes

That is never gonna happen. Skins for champions and wards are both sources of income for them, so they won't do that.

KoKoboto6 votes

How about some new UI for you're profile like instead of the scroll you could buy a Zaun or Piltover or Shurima or maybe a specific champion one like Heimerdinger as a UI theme for profile, and also buying borders cause theirs always that old summoner guy maybe we could buy new ones

Chaosneobreakage5 votes

I'm surprised Chroma Skins weren't purchasable with IP along with RP. I thought they were going to do what Smite did.

SpongebobIsLife1 votes

With smite, I think all skins can be bought with favor

Chaosneobreakage2 votes

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With smite, I think all skins can be bought with favor

Not all skins. Just the recolors.

Doct0r Phil4 votes

I have 220k IP. I have literally nothing to spend it on. Kinda sucks.

Astropanda3 votes

I'm in the same boat having over 60k Influence Points and nothing to spend it on. I hope one day Riot will add in special Skins or sparkly shiny loot for Influence Points. Ward skins even!!

But Im Nunu3 votes

So I've read some comments and some of them are really good ideas. I like gifting champions but that could also have some unfairness to it. Both player A and B are brand new, but player A got all the champions already because they know some people. Player A still have to learn the champions, don't get me wrong, but if both player A and B are equally matched skill-wise, then player A can counter-pick player B because player A knows that player B mostly has the free champion rotation to play. Gifting runes is worse because it gives power directly. I like the wheel of fortune (Call it the wheel of Miss Fortune) idea. I guess they can make the IP prices for skins ridiculously high but I still dithering about that... I haven't seen anything about gifting summoner's icons, however. It's pretty much useless and can't be seen in game anyway.

Now for my own idea. With the referral program gone, they could bring it back with some of these ideas. You can be the "mentor" of whomever you referred. The mentor has a unique interaction with the referred. For example, the mentor (and only the mentor) can gift the referred a few things a day with prices in IP.

Lord Dycedarg1 votes

I don't see how that's different from Player A just buying champions outright.

But Im Nunu1 votes

They can just find an old-timer that's willing to give them all champions...

I GANK LANES3 votes

chroma packs.

Westonbirt2 votes

It'd be nice if you could have the unlock skin mechanic of ARAM in SR that you could pay for with an outrageous ammount of IP... like I dunno 1250. Then you'd make your teammate happy and you wouldn't feel like you've "beaten" the game.

CrazedPorcupine2 votes

Honestly, the biggest desire I've heard, is being able to gift people things with IP.

You're playing with a brand new friend who wants a champion? You have massive amount of IP laying around? Gift them some Champions that they might enjoy!

It may actually help retain new players if they have a long time veteran friend that could gift them some champs to help the grind seem less difficult.

Zorsus2 votes

that could make Rito lose some $$$, since your friend could've bought that champion for RP, instead he can beg other people on public chats to give him the IP for the champion.

Zorsus2 votes

suggestion: make battle boosts cost IP instead.

(its not like we were buying RP for it anyways; most were using the extra RP they had laying around)

Häßlich2 votes

I have most of the runes I care to, and am only missing ~25 champs. I'm nearing that "nothing to spend IP" mark myself too. I think the Chroma skins for 50k ip would be a good start. Perhaps gifting runes would be a better idea than champions, because you can't spend RP to buy runes directly (and I could never justify buying the IP boosts), especially since this is one of those things that gates new players from getting into the game and staying around.

Just my 2ip...

PoKeR222342 votes

How about a mini game "Wheel of Fortune" where you get to spin the wheel if you pay a X amount of IP unlocked at level 20 and a limited number of spins per day.

Every section a X% chance (ex 200 ip prize at a 20% chance) 4 special sections that will include

  1. section where you get 0.25 "L"points, at 5 points you unlock a mystery quintessence & glyphs T3 box,
  2. section where you get 0.25 "Z"points, at 5 points you unlock a mystery mark & seal T3 box,
  3. section where you get a lucky coin (low chances) at 5-10 coins you unlock one of the 3 skins made for the wheel of fortune.
  4. section where you get a crystal (low chances), at 5-10 crystals you unlock one of the 3 summoner icons made for the wheel of fortune.

Other sections with 1 win ip boost, 100 IP, 200 IP, 300IP, 2 win ip boost, free spin (low chances), 350 IP, 400 IP.

Good for the players looking for a boost or some IP, and good for the ones with tons of IP to spam daily to get that icon or skin. Idk if its a good ideea with this gambling system, thought i try and give a suggestion

KAZLOV2 votes

been wanting this for years :( i have like 140k

Kouga1 votes

Deja vu.

Caiden2 votes

Yeah they deleted my other post and told me to re-post it here....soooooo...viola!!!

Kouga1 votes

So from one beta player to another, what is one thing you miss the most? An old mechanic, item, bug, whatever.

Doct0r Phil2 votes

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So from one beta player to another, what is one thing you miss the most? An old mechanic, item, bug, whatever.

For me personally, I miss stacking gp10 items. That was fun.

Kouga3 votes

Yeah HoG was pretty damn broken. And Bankplank with 3 Avarice blades.

Personally I miss stacking passives on all items.

SUUUUNFIIIIIRE GAAAAAREEEEEEEN

Caiden2 votes

hmmmm...I miss the FoN a lot...stacking HoG's, Atmas, sunfire eve(old eve where she was perma cloaked until she attacked, old twitch(the original), no trolls, no meta, just to name a few ;)

Weathered1 votes

Well... I don't want to be that guy but if you really don't know what to do with your IP you could gift people things. I'm in silver 3 and its hard to get a handle on IP :/

Dr Poro2 votes

You can't gift with IP. Only with RP.

ThunderSqueak1 votes

It also sucks for people (such as me) who have just started like a season ago and have nothing because champions, runes, etc., are expensive for a person who doesn't have time to play at a constant rate.

CØulrophobia1 votes

If you were able to gift champions,runes etc with IP riot would lose a lot of money. Here is why.Imagine you gift your friend 100k IP worth of goods. If these are runes you are essentialy helping a bronze/silver have highest tier runes,multiple runepages and a larger champion pool to use against his tier enemies. This is extremely broken. Not only that but you are essentialy boosting more ppl to ip edge, thus causing more ppl to complain about surplurous ip. At that point Riot would need to do something that would make them lose money.

Leaf on Bush1 votes

Nice necro... we have masteries to level now, this thread is 2 years old.

CØulrophobia1 votes

:D

CØulrophobia1 votes

So? XD This is still an ongoing problem, and masteries dont require any IP. If you look you will see all sorts of comments from todays perspective. I just logged in to put a comment because this will hit me soon. Also necromancers are best and most OP class. :D So i guess ty for the compliment.

Leaf on Bush1 votes

if you never get an S or you always play the same champion, then yes.

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