The Punishment System is horrid.
Let's settle down, and don't rustle your feathers just yet. I know your pitchforks are ready and torches are ready, but please - read this thread thoroughly. I provide suggestions that you may agree with, and hopefully it works out for the best.
Let's first realize, why is a punishment system in place? I remember watching a video about why league is toxic, and here is why. Pretend your at a basketball course, and there's someone who doesn't feel like playing, and decides, "I'm not going to try, and just do whatever I want." So, this someone, literally acts like a lunatic at that basketball course, and what do the others do? They just move to another basketball course. HOWEVER, this is NOT the case for league.
In league of legends, if someone decides, "I don't give a crap, and I'll do whatever I want.", goes 0/5 purposely in the first 4 minutes of the game. The difference between the basketball course, and League? You can't leave in League, you have to waste your time - AND suffer. You can't do anything about it, and that's the worst part of it. You are HELPLESS. The video I watched inspired me to make this post, and address some of the major problems, and provide good solutions to those major problems.
So - that is why toxicity happens. However, I believe it is much more then just waiting. What if the person was trying? People will still be, "report fizz for feeding". In my truthful opinion, I believe why toxicity actually happens - it's because, we want people to work like us. We want people to go our way, it's human nature. We all want people to just do what we want, be like us - and overall have a good score, because we want that freelo, am i right?
Because of this, every, I don't know like, 65% of my games, are filled with toxicity "problems". Nobody in this game is truly toxic, because if everyone played well - there would be no toxicity. No player is toxic, what is toxic is how we want others to do what we want, and be winning all the time. Even Piglet, that korean ADC had once said, "The only way I can have fun is if I always win." Which is quite true.
So - here are the problems with the punishment system.
I remember seeing in a post about someone, who conducted an experiment on their friend - who duoed, and one friend reported his teammate for, Verbal Abuse - for every game they played. Well, truth behold, that player who got reported, became chat restricted for 75 games.
Now, I don't actually believe this is truthful, however if it is, then that is absolutely terrible. Even the Tribunal was a better system overall. You make a BOT do the work? This shows Riot to be just plain lazy now. Now, pitchforks will start to come in around here, after the sentence I just said. However, I dare you to go to the "Regarding Chroma Skins" post in Skin and Champion concepts, and look what that guy has to say. Now, do you say how lazy they are, and how it's absolute BULLSHIT about some of the things they promise, like East Coast Servers? Haha, bet you saw that coming didn't ya?
Riot, there are pretty much three choices you can do. You can either be a lazy company, not do a favor for the community, considering you get over like a 100,000$ for every skin you make, regardless of price, or you can ACTUALLY get your employees, and make a part of your company that checks reports often. Maybe around 150 people in that part of the company? Because if three reports happen every 2 seconds, then your team will be ready.
Or, you can do it in the community's favor, and before you start getting a shotgun - and blowing it in my face, read this paragraph please. I don't want the tribunal to come back, that was a pure nightmare. However, there should be a new system, IN GAME, I know, brain explosion! There should be something like the Tribunal, however, a entirely new system.
Here's my suggestion. First off, in case of someone trolling, there should be where you can leave, if a player leaves after 10 minutes, and does not come back. Then you can leave, but suffer LP consequences regardless of what occurs. However, you MUST have a vote for player leaves. You have to do /leavegame, which will send almost a surrender vote. Before you say, that's the same thing as a surrender! There are two major differences - as long as more then one player asks to leave the game, you can leave the game. However, if only one asks, then you cannot. Also, you can do /leavegame earlier then 20 minutes.
Now, that solves one of the major problems. Now for reporting, here's how I think it should work. In the league of legends client, you should go to something like the Tribunal. Now, once you did that - you will see sort of the Tribunal, however a much more updated version. You can NOT judge the game yet, until you watch the whole game through. I repeat - the WHOLE GAME. Or your vote is invalid. This makes voting completely fair, and only the dedicated players who really wish to help the community will do this option. You will see chatlogs, who reported, who got reported, and more - like players who had nothing to do with it, but still shows their chatlog, and everything. It also shows many things too, like player's report history, and more. It does NOT show ANY NAMES IN THE REPLAY/GAME HOWEVER. All names will be Player 1/ Player 2/ Player 3, and will have numbers above their head in the replay.
Then, you can choose mercy, or no mercy, or neutral. Neutral will not give any punishments to the player, and you automatically skip to the next case. You can watch UNLIMITED cases, because of how long replays are. Once you start a replay, you can NOT leave the replay. If you quit during the replay, you lose judging rights for any cases for two days.
There are of course, rewards for getting your choice right. If your choice has been right, you will be given more difficult cases, and also granted a small IP reward (150 IP usually) for your work. Also, there are some achievements you can obtain from this system.
If you obtain over 100 right choices, you should get a free champion/mystery skin.
If you obtain over 250 right choices, you should get another mystery skin, however like the other choice, you can not get any ultimate skins.
If you obtain over 500 right choices, you can get another mystery skin/champion, and have a chance to obtain a mystery skin.
If you obtain over 1000 right choices, you can get one skin of your choice.
Every 50 right choices, gives you a small discount on RP, which lowers the RP price by 10%.
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