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New punishment system

QC Best Talon·9/3/2017, 3:27:01 AM·1 votes·356 views

After multiple tickets to try to recover a banned account, I've been thinking a lot on how could I have prevented that and how could I fix that issue. So I though a new punishment system may be the best of both worlds. Heres my idea.

There will be two different punishments for two different type of players.

The duration of these punisments could go like these.

1st time flagged = 14 days 2nd time flagged = 30 days 3rd time flagged = Rest of the season 4th time flagged = Permanent mute

Players flagged for verbal abuse, negative attitude and harassment should have their account automatically muted for all players in the game, that way the player still has access to the chat box to see the pings and the tips of other players, and if you play with a duo or party, they can unmute you manually to see you talk at any moment in the game.

Now for the AFK's and Intentionally feeding players,

1st time flagged = 14 days 2nd time flagged = 30 days 3rd time flagged = Rest of the season 4th time flagged = Permanent PvP queue restriction

And for the AFK and Intentionally feeding players, once they have been flagged, they should be unable to join any matchmaking queue other than bots and custom games for a certain duration depending on the number of time flagged. These players will be able to play modes where AFK's and Intentionally feeding dont have the same impact.

And last for those who got their accounts locked, we could offer the same system and apply the 4th flagged punishment of each type of punishment.

Banned for toxicity 4th time flagged = Permanent mute

Banned for AFK'ing or Intentionally feeding 4th time flagged = permanent PvP matchmaking restriction

Anybody think this could be a good fix?

There is no reason to ban someone that paid money for a game without giving them a way to fix the problem.

7 Comments

Subdue9/3/2017, 3:33:45 AM7 votes

You realize that you receive 3 warnings already before you're permabanned, right?

Edit: And also, playing with someone who can't chat because they're permanently muted is not a positive experience for his teammates either. This is a team game, after all.

Silent Gravity9/3/2017, 3:45:04 AM4 votes

Perm mutes don't work.

If a person is unable to control themselves in needing to inform people of how poorly they're doing or needing to insult people back, then if you mute them, they're unable to express themselves. Because the mute did not change who they were, they still need to express their discontent. Now, because they're muted, the only way to do that is through trolling. Perm mutes turn ragers into trolls, which is not the goal.

The goal is to reform people or get them to leave the game.