A thought about account value

This Is Your Dad··1 votes·274 views

Many of the negative players I've met (the really negative ones) have multiple accounts or bot to 30. I think that there should be some value in keeping the same account for years and logging into it every day. Not a monetary value or whatnot, but some kind of way to deter people from just creating new accounts. The people that run around botting to 30 to ruin games is probably smaller than it seems, and I do appreciate the new honor system. But the ones that really ruin games are the freshly made accounts that have names that suggest they are smurfing. I think if a player never buys skins there's no value to his account that can't be gained through botting to 30, and every co op vs ai game has 3+ bots that I know are bots because they hide behind the second minion in every minion wave and follow that pattern all game. I love everything about the game except for being stuck in games with trolls that enjoy ruining games to get back at riot or feel important or whatever. While I can ignore them, other players don't and give the trolls exactly what they want. Since I cannot control other players, I cannot control the trolls. I don't have a clue as how exactly to create an environment where players try to win (you don't have to win) but I feel like the punishment system has become a joke to the truly toxic people, the ones that are toxic for no reason than to laugh at the misery of others.

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Jo0o1 votes

F2P model certainly leaves some gaps in security.

Riot could do a lot worse than drastically changing how the leveling process works. Stopping XP gain at a certain point in bots might do the trick, though that also risks forcing honest players leveling up to have bot teammates in games against real opponents.

This Is Your Dad1 votes

I think having a way to identify players as people would help, but I'm not sure what way wouldn't violate their privacy. That way players could make multiple accounts, but they would be linked by the data they provided.

Jo0o2 votes

Captcha before queueing up?

This Is Your Dad1 votes

Sometimes they only bot during the game and then manually q up though. But I was talking about linking accounts they've made honestly to deter the "this is my smurf so kys" kind of players.

HalcyonDweller1 votes

Riot does already have the technology to link accounts. They don't do it often, I'm not sure why. Possibly because it is a bit totalitarian and overreaching in a lot of people's eyes.

I wish they would apply it more often. Then again I don't have data on who gets banned or for what so I can't really judge how much Riot does it.

All I have to go on is when player complain about a ban on one account and then get smited by Rioters banning the rest of their accounts. Which doesn't happen often, but it's satisfying as fuck to see when it does happen.

HalcyonDweller1 votes

I'd be so down for this. Legit an extremely simple solution :) Great idea!

Jo0o1 votes

Well, as Anti Teemo said, that would only help if the script re-enters games. If somebody manually queues up and then runs a script, that defeats the purpose.

HalcyonDweller1 votes

I see. Damn.

What about if Riot used heatmaps to track play patterns? This would be an extremely effective way to identify if an account has been controlled by more than one user.

Player heatmaps change slowly over time, it is extremely unlikely that they would change their patterns suddenly enough to falsely trigger such a system.

Additionally it would be extra punishment for players who purchase a pre-leveled account because they would lose the account almost immediately and their money spent buying the account would be wasted.

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