How to eliminate smurfing

Liquid Children·7/17/2016, 3:42:36 AM·2 votes·502 views

Eliminate levels/ip costs for runes or give level 30 players ways to get access to alts without making a new account and leveling it. No level 30 player actually enjoys having to level up a smurf, and eliminating this process would make games much better for lower level players.

7 Comments

CrazFight 7/17/2016, 3:43:11 AM1 votes

... Except riot doesn't want to remove smurfing....?

Schàdenfreude7/17/2016, 3:58:49 AM1 votes

Smurfing is a thing for us to stomp people. Don't ruin it.

Calabok7/17/2016, 4:01:20 AM1 votes

if they didnt want peeps to stop smurfing, they would have done something years ago.

Mysticman897/17/2016, 4:11:38 AM1 votes

That seems to me that that would actually create more smurfs, as the struggle of leveling/acquiring runes is a fairly big disincentive for people to create one.

Maybe your thing might make the 1-30 world slightly less smurf-y (albeit not entirely, since one of the many reasons for smurfs is for people to be able to play with their low leveled friends without having the associated mmr making it really rough on their new friend), but there'd be a whole world of smurfs in bronze/silver/gold.

Precisely how 'alts' would work might vary, but however you do it, it'd spoil someones intentions behind smurfing, so you'd still get them done the traditional way.

CrazFight 7/17/2016, 5:34:23 AM1 votes

They want smurfs because alot of time when people create smurfs they use money on the smurfs as well.

FioraWillCarry7/17/2016, 6:08:10 AM1 votes

I'm only Bronze but when I get a team of braindead feeders 5 times in a row, you bet your ass I'm gonna log on to one of my sub 30 accounts and stomp newbs to improve my mood.....Only problem....running into Gold and Plat smurfs.

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