The IP system feels like a grind

PapaFizz·9/20/2014, 8:08:56 PM·2 votes·535 views

We've seen the calculations all over reddit. If you want all the champions and some runes it takes thousands of games.

The double IP Weekends seem to be a good idea but more can be done to balance that system. Maybe Spin to win/Wheel of fortune with the rewards stacking up the more often you login in a week. This would give tier two runes but a shit-ton of them that can be combined for T3 Runes. Perhaps rare champs and/ or even RP to continue to entice people to login each and every day.

Another solution would be to give IP, Runes and Champions as players level up to 30.

7 Comments

Baitsa Dasuto9/21/2014, 8:50:04 AM2 votes

"Rare Champs" is a horrible idea - who wins a match should come down to skill, and not to who happens to have one of those elusive legendary pokemon -_-

I understand where you come from. In order to afford one of the newer champions, you have to grind up to one hundred games. Yes, everybody knows this is how RIOT makes their money. However it isn't as if LOL is a particularly short-lived game. Take your time unlocking the champions, that way every champion you get is more satisfying to own. I play with somebody who has all the champions, and bought maybe four of them with RP, so it is possible to unlock everybody while still having enough for runes.

Elemon9/20/2014, 8:42:48 PM1 votes

Don't buy any (or very many) champions over 1350 with IP. It isn't really worth it. It's the difference between paying twice the cost in RP or 8 times the cost in IP (from a 450 to a 6300). I haven't bought (expensive) champions with IP for a while, and I actually have more IP that I really know what to do with right now (I only have 1 spare rune page and no clue what to put in it, and I approximately enough IP for 2 pages of runes). I don't remember how many games I've played, but I think it's around 350, and a lot of those were bot games. Sorry if I'm rambling and you really don't care how I'm doing, but it takes far less IP if you don't use it on the champions that aren't worth it.