Why is honor reset at all?

TheLegendaddy·2/2/2019, 11:15:50 AM·3 votes·3,095 views

I feel like honor should be a persistent number that only changes when your behavior has affected it. Especially if matchmaking factors in honor level (which I hope it does).

As of right now having it reset basically utilizes it as a gimmick to draw players in for a grind for rewards which is the wrong idea entirely. The goal should be to reach level 5 and continue to reap the best rewards over players who are toxic and get no extras, along with getting matched with players with overall better attitudes.

Honor should be more about the matching of players who are similar attitudes and not fake nice till you get the honor skins.

18 Comments

Imperial Pandaa2/2/2019, 12:39:36 PM3 votes

Like Oh Em Gee! Why does rank reset at all? Like I finished at rank x, why do I have to grind back to my rank? Rito should just give it to me and let me do what I want.

Same idea really though. You have to work to earn your honor rank/level.

FF or QQ2/2/2019, 11:54:32 AM2 votes

I agree, this trend of forcing players to regrind their accounts is present in all forms with Riot. From banning account over words, to working off punishments. Chat restrictions, low priority Q's, whatever they can to reset the grind. They want players to earn chests, keys, and essence more slowly. As a veteran player, I used to earn about 20k Influence Points before the Blue Essence patch a month. Which means about 3 champions, I had all but 12 champions earned and two dozen skins collected over the years.

I said a few words in a game, and got a 5 game chat restriction. I was like "whow, better calm down, we're on the way to being banned now.", so I did my best to ignore salty players. Since that's their game, they'll get you to cuss them out and both of you get reported. So, for a week or two I said nothing, then another game I slipped up and let them tilt me. 10 game chat restriction.

I was like; "Yeah, that last restriction didn't de-escalate as quickly as I expected, but sure." then went on to say nothing for about a month. Slipped up again and flamed a jungle for feeding my lane then telling me to play better. 25 game restriction. The larger the penalty, the longer it takes to de-escalate. I pretty much knew I was screwed then, because you'll get reported for next to nothing and the instant feedback system is broken. Keep in mind, how subjective the idea of de-escalation is. The main argument for it is; "It's Riots game, they can consider it whatever they please." which I find to be a rather weak argument. I like to believe as summoners, this game is equally ours as theirs.

But, I soldiered on, more tilted than ever. I wanted to talk more after the restrictions since I felt the renewed freedom wash over me. Which, some harmless trash talk led to a 14-day suspension. Which tilted me beyond belief. For two weeks I festered, playing a smurf account. Finally when I returned, a train pile-up of toxic hit me, each game a player would provoke me. I tried for weeks to not get banned, but eventually it just happened. And it all started with a 5 game chat restriction, a account with over 100 days of game time, countless skins, champions, all of that, gone. A domino effect of toxicity. After several years, since the beta, the account was lost season 7. Lasted five seasons.

I'm going to start taking a survey in each match, ask who is playing on a second account because another one is currently suffering a punishment of some sort. Then after I have a good medium, range, area, etc etc, compare it to the total player base and see if it's a large number.

Sukishoo2/2/2019, 4:27:55 PM1 votes

Well the original honor system was just a consistently growing number that really did nothing, other than occasionally give you a flair on loading screen.

When it was updated, they tied it into the crafting system to where you'd get keys at a more consistent rate. Then they later put it on ranked rewards, as a way to get people to have better attitudes. So when you don't have high enough honor (from being punished) they could keep better track on where rewards go.

Plus it can be abused in ways, like there's people out there that troll and give honors such as "tilt proof" when they say someone is tilted, so trying to tie it to match making wouldn't be the greatest idea, since various people's could be inaccurate in that way.