Honor/Report Change and upgrade idea
This is my idea on how to update the Honors/Reports in game. I really feel like a change is desperately needed. I apologize in advance if this is just a giant wall of text, but please give it some time and thought. If the format is terrible, i apologize. I'm doing this from my phone.
Honors give you "Points". 1 Point per honor. You can then use these in the report screen. These points are used when reporting someone. When reporting, you have the same menu and option except you now have a small drop down box that lets you select a number of 1 through 3. You need at least 1 point to report someone. The more points you use towards reporting someone, the more harshly it will affect them. So, for example, if they are just being mouthy, a "1-point report" may be all you need. However, if they are feeding, go afk, are being extremely toxic, a "3-point report" may be necessary. In the tribunal, it will show the amount of points applied in a single report.
If you see lots of "3-point reports" then obviously their toxicity level is much too high and actions need to be taken. Alternatively, players can spend these points to cause in-game restrictions. Not major ones, but enough to either make the person stop or at least give the team some respite and satisfaction. Upon holding tab and revealing the character window, you should be able to hit a Mute button on the person. This prevents them from speaking for up to 1-5 minutes, adding 1 minute per point spent, and only being allowed by any one player, once per game.
If people receive 30 points, they get a Brown ribbon on their character portrait. This will cause you to earn no IP from fights and also make it so that the in-game punishment is multiplied to some degree (3x?, so the Mute will last from 3-15 minutes). You will be able to spend points that you earn (debatable how many, at this stage) to remove the ribbon. I feel like 15 is fair. This will essentially allow the nicer people to stop toxic ones from being so toxic during their game and still allow for them to follow team strategies. Not just that, but it will force the toxic person to either change their attitude or risk being silenced by fellow players. The players also have to stop being toxic in order to earn the points to remove the ribbon, so its forcing them to be nice, even if it is just for a little bit, it’s in the hopes that eventually they will see that being nice just works better. I’m sure a lot of people are like me, and share in the curiosity of wondering if the person ever got punished or not. The in-game punishing allows for some satisfaction on that aspect. Knowing that you can temporarily put a jerk behind bars is probably a good feeling.
Now, for a big part, with a simple solution. Feeders/ AFKers and Leavers. I would like to introduce 2 new features. Game mode bans and CHARACTER BANS. If they should break one of the 3 taboo laws, the character they did it with will be banned for 30 days! Yes, 1 month. If they receive 3 of these in a day, they get a game mode ban (for whatever mode they were doing this on) for 7 days. It is possible to be banned all the way down to where you can only play custom games, and all your characters are banned. As there is nothing you could do in-game to stop someone from feeding, these cannot be undone with Points. However, once a month, the person may write an apology to the community and upon admin approval, have the ban lifted from 1 character and 1 game mode. (The apology is just the side of me that wants to think that public repentance will make them see the lighter side of things, maybe that’s just me being naive.)
Lastly, the points may be spent on IP boosts or very small amounts of RP. This part is completely up to Riot, as to how much for how much. It would stop people from needlessly muting people, just to be jerks and give even more incentive to be nicer.
YOU MAY ONLY RECIEVE A POINT FROM ANY SPECIFIC PERSON ONCE EVERY 24 HOURS. THIS IS TO STOP PEOPLE FROM FARMING THEM, OR JUST HAVING FRIENDS HELP THEM.
I appreciate all thoughts, suggestions and comments. Please do. I would really like to see a fix in this game, and I feel like this could be a good good answer.
EDIT: custom games can't award points.
