More IP. New Player Experience. My proposal.

Bouffon dAnglais·1/16/2015, 3:15:42 PM·24 votes·1,782 views

My younger brother just started playing. He used to watch me play a lot, so one day I started teaching him to play. Which got me thinking- How can we, you, they, help new players learn the game, enjoy it, unlock more of it?

How about... Giving players free IP when they level up? Not a lot, maybe 500, just so they can reach 30 with a feeling of "huh. I got a lot of IP. maybe I should buy some new champions".

We can give them an option to choose a free champion every 3 or so levels. We can give them Mystery Gifts. We can give them some sort of a progression feeling.

What do you guys think?

25 Comments

Eljin1/16/2015, 11:33:34 PM5 votes

Hi, I'm newish myself (level 15).

I don't find the IP to be that horrible. I already have two 4800 champions, a 3150 champion, and a fewer lower level champions. I also have over 6k IP saved up for the upcoming rune sale. If I could make two changes it would be:

1 - Instead of 400 free RP, give us one free champion at a later level. Or stagger it. Give a 450 or 1350 at level 4, then at level 10 give a 3150 or 4800 champion.

2 - The upcoming fixes to T1 and T2 runes are very nice, but I think T3 - at least the 'generic' - runes should have a lower cost to allow people to more easily transition into them. Perhaps put the common AD/AP reds, armor yellows, MR blues at a highly reduced cost to allow people to get two starter pages going without having to drop soooo much for them.

Aquaman7111/16/2015, 4:54:45 PM4 votes

A bit of bonus IP isn't a bad idea, but gifting them free champions and Mystery gifts might be, if you do it too often. Besides, you can already get Garen , Tristana and Alistar for free just by liking Riot on Facebook and such.

I totally agree with a few IP boosts as a little reward, though.

Hawkefire1/17/2015, 8:36:26 PM2 votes

Bet you that Riot wont do it because "it will be abused by botters"

N00BC8K31/16/2015, 3:30:06 PM2 votes

It's a free game and thus you can create as many new accounts as you like. It could easily be abused, unless i'm just not awake and thinking right so correct me if i'm wrong.

Good, idea though :)

junglerboy161/17/2015, 8:03:33 PM2 votes

I wish they had that when I started last year, it would have been a huge help to getting a champion base and some good runes.

Scuttler Slayer1/16/2015, 11:48:50 PM2 votes

Being lvl30 and only having "8-9" champs is NOT an issue.

Why does everyone see a problem with having to play a lot in order to get a bigger champ pool?

I'd rather have newer players grind normals for year in the process of getting enough champs for ranked (i.e. to fill any role), and actually learn how to play. Instead of just "Oh. You're level 30. Go straight to ranked now. You clearly know what you're doing."

Eleshakai1/17/2015, 6:27:29 PM2 votes

I think IP per level would be a good bonus. I think it might be nice to gift people with an IP/EXP boost every 5 levels(4 game or something)... and at max level gift people 1 free random skin for the champ they played most while leveling up as a 'reward' for hitting 30.

727PP1/18/2015, 2:43:23 AM1 votes

I'm just leaving this here to help with publicity...

xMasterDebatorxa1/16/2015, 9:06:56 PM1 votes

450 ip , 1 free champ that is 3150 ip or lower till level 10 , so 1 ,5, 10 lvl . /// 500ip, 1 free champ that is 4800 ip or lower till lvl 20. 15,20 /////// 600 ip , 2 free champs that are 6300 at lvl, 25 ,30.

GigglesO1/17/2015, 6:20:09 AM1 votes

I've already purchased everything I can with IP, your argument is meh...