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Meeting people on the boards is more fun than the game. What do that say!!?!?!?!?!?!

Occams Raiser·4/28/2015, 8:58:12 AM·2 votes·310 views

What does it say about the actual game environment when this is just as fun? It's not hard to post an idea everyday. I like to see how people think. I like to put my voice out too. I am amazed at the way some people think. And write without thinking. I don't mean their typing. Lots of people are bad at that. Grammar? Oh please! If someone makes an coherent argument and the first thing you do is grammar Nazi their post... just don't.

I do like talking to people on boards. Even the ones I don't necessarily agree with. I see way fewer trolls on the boards than in game. I can be made to believe that the boards only have 1% toxicity, the game not so much.

I have been saying that there is something wrong when everyone is looking for a team but few find one. How does a team based game have so much trouble with its community? The amount of solo queue chatter should be inverse to what it is vs team. I'm sure someone will say that I am in the minority and they didn't have any problem getting with friends. Well, thirteen year olds usually don't have hard time playing video games with friends. I know it has to do with how long the games are and responsibility. I wonder how many true teams there would be if the games were only 20 minutes the majority of the time. It would be awesome to play three ranked games with your bros and not turn around the see the sun coming up.

Something is wrong but after you find out what it is it doesn't mean anything if you don't have the power to fix it. That is the Riot side of things. The boards are progressing better than the game by this point. Every now and then you can even hear from a Rioter. Maybe not on a subject you care about.

How's that Tribunal coming? Don't answer. I was joking.

Noting like a good exchange of ideas. I like League of Boards.

5 Comments

Jubbinaut4/28/2015, 5:00:27 PM3 votes

To answer the rather emphatic question of your thread title, it says nothing more than this: It is easier to exchange ideas in a positive way when there is no additional stress placed upon you.

The boards requires nothing of you. Even when there's dozens of responses to you, all the software wants you to do is view the page it shows them on - there's no need to even view the thread again, much less actually respond. It's extremely low-stress.

Meanwhile, the game itself is a ball of tension, with dozens of things to pay attention to and keep track of, combined with multiple things you can't control. It's extremely high-stress.

Now, I'm not trying to argue that "high-stress environments are bad" - that's not always true, and is beyond the scope of my statements here even if it was. But high-stress environments do make interpersonal communication much less positive and considered. Thus, this kind of communication is less enjoyable than it is in a low-stress environment.

powerbats4/28/2015, 9:36:20 AM1 votes

That gae me a good laugh and I think part of the problem is that League has gotten so big compared to where it used to be both in terms of players over 32 million plus indivdual accounts versus 5 million or so and the forums have grown as well. We used to be each region separate boards but that's gone now as well. I like the 20 minute game idea and I'll discuss an idea I just came up with after reading your idea.

I think Riot's going through some intense growing pains that won't be fixed for at least upwards of a year for some of them due to the size and nature of the problems that've arisen. They can't just hire someone off the street since that never works out well and unfortunately they'll never move fast enough for some parts of the community.

It used to be easier to group with friends or people you'd played with before and had a good time but now life's mvoed on people have moved, gotten new jobs, families etc so that aprt isn't there as easy anymore. There's still good people out there to play with but the playerbase has gotten diluted so to speak.

Everyones got their own vision of what should be done and is convinced their ideas are the solution to everything if only Riot and everyone else would just listen despite most of these same posters have no idea what their talking about nor have they run their own business or workplace division at a large company.

Ok now that I've gotten sidetracked enough here's the idea for the 20 minute ranked game based upon your idea for it.

**Make n SR type map but chopped in half with not somuch going on perhaps narrower etc but not as narrow as TT and then throw in teh added bonus of making it last only 20 minutes or something along the lines of Magma Chamber on a mini modified SR type map so tehre's clear objectives cs, gold, towers w/e but it's only 20 minutes so you can either win by killing x tower, killing nexus, killing x champs, x amount of cs and to make it interesting the cs/towers or a combination could be needed instead of one to get victory.

The idea would be that you have a few ways to win but you have only 20 minutes to do it whomevers ahead wins either by having the most objectives completed or wisnby x conditions ie enxus victory etc. you could cut it to 2 lanes like TT and leave a jungle on both sides and middle of the lanes to create even more chances for havoc and interresting gameplay.

Again max 20 minute game no matter what with picks/bans each team perhaps even adding it up to 5 champs per team since it's a smaller map and or having perma ban champs like they did for Ultra Rapid Fire before.**

powerbats4/28/2015, 4:06:25 PM1 votes

Yw, I was up till 4 am or so thinkihng about how it'd work but couldn't think clearly enough, of course playing D3 Torment III ona toon ahven't played in close to a year didn't help either.