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First time penalties

LilBlondie·9/1/2019, 3:19:48 PM·1 votes·2,916 views

So i would like to get some attention on to first time penalties as i think they are too harsh. i think a first time penalty should encourage players to turn their aditudes around and keep being good, rather than destroy their will to do so. right now it feels like one bad game outweights hundreds of good ones and even years of good behaviour. i will use my own situation as an example. Also note that i belive i deserved a penalty, just not this harsh.

So to give some context i have been playing since end of season 2, i got the rewards from the old honor system and had a banner back in the day. ive recived ranked rewards for every season. And i have been honor lvl 5 ever since the new honor system launched. so i would say im a pretty honorable player.

Now like every season i was already honor lvl 5. I recived my first ever chat restriction since starting to play in season 2. the chat resriction was for 10 games BUT i also lost all my honor progress and my honor level was set to 1. its basicly the end of season already and getting my honor up to lvl 2 again to recive any of the rewards availeable for me is close to impossible.

So my issue is that why should my first ever penalty be so harsh that i possibly cant even redeem myself? how does this make me as a player want to be better? it simply doesnt. one bad game is outweighing hundreds of good ones and years of good behaviour. I think some penalty must be given. But for first time penalties this is too harsh, it does not encourage players to be better, its rather defeating instead.

i really hope Riot looks into this and finds a better solution for first time penalties that makes players want to do better rather than give up.

EDIT: Basicly what i would want is a system that actually tell you before punishing you that your behaviour isnt acceptable. the system dont tell you that you are about to get a penalty and whats acceoptable or not. shouldnt there be a mesage for first time offenders that they are at risk? something in the lines of: "Hello summoner, we have detected that your recent behaviour isnt very sportsmanlike, if you dont fix your aditude you risk being punished" ? Cause as someone that havent been punished before i have no clue where the line is, and what i see promoted online that is in the spotlight n doesnt get penalized makes it hard to know where the line goes.

15 Comments

GatekeeperTDS9/1/2019, 3:50:41 PM3 votes

i really hope Riot looks into this and finds a better solution for first time penalties that makes players want to do better rather than give up.

If you've been playing since season 2, you've had literally thousands of games as "chances" to behave. Unless you dropped a zero-tolerance phrase ("kys", racist & homophobic comments), you didn't get punished for just one game...you've had a history, however recent, of not following the rules.

This is going to sound a bit harsh but news flash - punishments are supposed to feel bad as a deterrent. Hopefully you'll remember the loss of honor and chat restriction and not repeat the same behavior again.

Again - if you've been around since season 2, the system and how it works is not a secret to you, and you need to stop the negative chat in game.

its basicly the end of season already and getting my honor up to lvl 2 again to recive any of the rewards availeable for me is close to impossible

Again - since you've been here since season 2, you know that seasons end in the first few weeks of November. Why would you risk your account standing and rewards at this point?

Subdue9/1/2019, 3:31:04 PM2 votes

You're not penalized for one game. You're penalized based on frequency and severity. So you can be extremely toxic in a few games, or you can be mildly toxic in a lot of games.

Also, the bar for not receiving a penalty is extremely low. You can get away with A LOT. That's why the vast majority of players are never penalized.

That said, I do agree that whatever they settle on should be as punitive whether you get penalized early in the season or late.

Tele II9/6/2019, 10:42:16 PM1 votes

Im curious, what do you see being promoted online that blurs the lines for you? Do you just mean streamers talkin shit? Cuz thats not really meant to be taken as promoting any sort of behavior. Theyre just people playing a game, not role models setting the standard. So what did you mean by that?