@Player Behavior Team/Lyte

Swenka·9/24/2014, 6:08:02 PM·5 votes·829 views

I am curious as to if you have ever considered a system in which a player could receive a report of their behavior, such as a grading scale? I am sure it has come up in the past, many players would like to see how they "rank" among other players, or review their own performance. I feel like such a system, having your own "Behavior ELO" may give further incentive towards being a positive influence within the League, even possibly including rewards such as the Santa-Baron icon each season.

Of course, such a system would require participation by the community at large. So, how can we increase player participation? We already had the Honor Initiative, which, unfortunately, seems forgotten. Since the changes made awhile ago, seeing a ribbon is quite a rare occurrence, and I frequently forget to ever honor other players. Perhaps an opt-in reminder system? Sign up, and after every game, a little pop-up telling you to remember to honor well-behaved players, integrated into the client. This may encourage further participation, as right now, unless they are the best of the best, I rarely "give" honor.

At any rate, to the point of this post. I ask because I am in the middle of several projects to apply to Riot (User Experience Coordinator being one of them), one involving an analysis into my own behavior and efforts to change it, which would be much easier with a more accurate metric than just my own thoughts. Is it feasible to ever have such a system to receive report information towards your own account, without requiring using your team's resources to manually provide it?

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ValyrianBlade9/24/2014, 7:20:22 PM2 votes

The problem I find with the honor system is that when some people are in a good mood after a win, they'll give honor to everyone if they're going to give it at all (even if only 1 or 2 people deserve honor). When in a bad mood after a loss, regardless of how much a teammate deserves honor it will rarely be given. I've received honor after wins where I've done nothing special, and received nothing after close losses where I rallied my team and almost carried a game that otherwise would have been surrendered at 20min. I'm not sure how to get a ribbon, but it seems like the first step would be winning a lot.

Guess that's kind of off topic, but is there any system where you can actually measure a player's "attitude" separate of winning or losing?