Just a little concern-question about Honor system and Punishment influence
Doesn't it kinda seem...flawed...to start at honor Level 2 for everyone? The reason why i ask that is simple.
I Noticed that when you move your mouse over the honor badge on your profile it says a tooltip explaining everyone starts at honor Level 2. That Kind of makes shaming people easier. Why is that you ask? well....because of this:
When you suffer a punishment by Riot, even just a chat restriction, you get stripped down to Honor Level 1, right? Basically you expose everyone to be publicly branded as someone who has suffered a punishment since the new Honor was released.
Honestly, i have not seen any of that in my own games, but i have heard a couple of people got very much shamed to the point they had to afk the game out of fear for further bullying because people made fun of them being on Riot's strike list, which has become visible with the Honor system.
While i can understand that putting people on honor Level 2 seems an easier start reward-wise, it does concern me how people are gonna be diversed and classified much stronger on their assumptive behaviour. People who are Honor Level 1 have dreadfully fair chances of having their behinds verbally handed to them because they recently made something to be reported and to be punished. Which, as far as i am concerned, does not really help or promote for those people to be more sportsmanlike in future games.
As i said, sure, i have not experienced that myself so far, but it makes me worry very much about the community's set of behaviours once that sunk in a bit. It is already bad enough that people would go as far as to spit racial slurrs every 3rd word just to shame others, but now having a legitimate argument supported by the game itself? I raise a red flag there.
And i know, quite a number of people will disagree with me on this, but i felt like offering my opinion on this and connect my concerns in the best possibly formal expression. It's just what i think exposes people to more mental stress and danger in this already swamp low standart that a considerable amount of people have.
Having said all of that, i persoally would of been more comfortable starting at honor Level 1 for everyone.
Anyone else want to share their opinion on this?