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The Behaviour Watcher (function/AI)

QueenRenSeal·5/10/2017, 11:38:41 AM·2 votes·932 views

(The idea for the guide is further down, look for the title, but you will most likely miss out on alot of stuff if so)

If I could ask Riot directly, I would ask: If you found a way to set a standard that brought out the true beauty of the community in LoL, would you do it? Even if you lost mayhaps a great amount of the player-base, at first?

Foreword Why do I ask this question? Because I believe that we are not setting proper standards on the player-base. We have a pretty simple system of making an account, verify it, login, go/skip tutorial, and then go directly into a game. However if a player doesn't meet another players standards, they can abuse the report system that might in some cases actually go through, but all that happens is that the player is temporarily banned. Then what happens? They can just go back and make a new account, and they become master jugglers of accounts. I believe that this is not a good routine, why so? Because nothing changes in form of behaviour. Nothing breaks the pattern. It just put one obstacle up ahead and it was easy to dodge. To some the routine have worked, there are many different people in the world.

So with this, do we set the standards high enough? What would happen if we did? What would it possibly look like if we did raise the standards?

I believe we absolutely need to put higher standards on player behaviour, and implement a system that help weed people out or allow them to understand the standard. Therefore I believe the simple, but also complex system I've come up with, can help with that. League of Legends in itself is a very beautiful, amazing and thrilling game, but I feel it loses points due to the 'quality' of its people that play it. There are gold-hearted people in this community, but it feels like they are very few in comparison to the majority, getting the opportunity to be with these gold-hearted people does bring out the true beauty of LoL. Which people know and admire!

The Behaviour Watcher As I have chosen to call it, is a function implemented into the LoL client accessible in your profile. TBW is in a way, a smaller form of AI. TBW mainly takes notes of Honors and Reports that happen upon your account, and is meant to be your protective guide for you as well as for others. TBW also provides with a scoreboard of behaviour performance in combination with average win/loss ratios. Which can enhance the reality of how behaviour impacts outcome. The AI also takes note on how long you have been playing and pitches in to reccomend breaks. TBW could in its sense, be an assistant program to the LoL client.

Smartfunctions of TBW Reports TBW takes notice of the build-up of reports that could be more and more coming onto the account, then TBW pops up and suggest to you to take a break. TBW looks after you and makes sure you keep enjoying the game, and halts you when you might be starting to go overboard. If it would turn out that the player has struck a higher amount of reports in a shorter time period, then instead of a potential ban, is met with a survey where they can click a box that matches their current emotion. Anger, anxiety, stress and so on, if the person rushes the answer without reading the text, then TBW will question the potential unfocused choice, as it is functioned with an estimated time it takes for an average person to read the text and click a matching box. The importance of getting the right emotion selected is that TBW will provide the resources which the player can sit/stand and research/listen/watch through, or be given different exercises to work with the emotion. TBW will present a routine that must be dealt with in order to resume playing, it even denies the chance to change account, and access to LoL's homepage is denied to prevent making a new one. TBW does not like cheap-skates.

TBW is not easily played when it comes to excessive reporting with no content in order to troll other people. If this is the case, then TBW will target its own user and go on lockdown until the player goes through a tailored scenario TBW have set up, it will even deny access to going to LoL's page as they might attempt to go make a new account.

TBW confirms to those that are given positive ratings of their behaviour, can gain additional symbols onto their portrait (ribbons of honor maybe?).

The free guide: This guide is always available for players to use. It is the source of all guides which TMBW would guide you to, and as mentioned It should provide fully interactive segments and tabs with articles, podcasts, videos, research and much more on the importance of human behaviour, but also basic needs to maximise to your fullest potential. I mean, this is a sport after all?

(Cant be arsed to write more.. puh.. maybe later..)

Final words There are some things I already know with this idea of mine, and that is how scary in a way it appeals to be.. I will polish it up later.

3 Comments

AeroWaffle5/10/2017, 2:16:05 PM1 votes

However if a player doesn't meet another players standards, they can abuse the report system that might in some cases actually go through, but all that happens is that the player is temporarily banned.

Reports don't work that way. They only function as a flag for the system to look at that game. Reports alone can not get a person banned.

ModThe Djinn5/10/2017, 5:02:14 PM1 votes

{quoted}If you found a way to set a standard that brought out the true beauty of the community in LoL, would you do it? Even if you lost mayhaps a great amount of the player-base, at first?

Riot would be concerned about a loss of much of the playerbase: they ARE a company, after all, and they have a lot of overhead. They can afford to lose some players here and there, but not a large chunk of the playerbase.

Smartfunctions of TBW Reports TBW takes notice of the build-up of reports that could be more and more coming onto the account, then TBW pops up and suggest to you to take a break. TBW looks after you and makes sure you keep enjoying the game, and halts you when you might be starting to go overboard. If it would turn out that the player has struck a higher amount of reports in a shorter time period, then instead of a potential ban, is met with a survey where they can click a box that matches their current emotion. Anger, anxiety, stress and so on, if the person rushes the answer without reading the text, then TBW will question the potential unfocused choice, as it is functioned with an estimated time it takes for an average person to read the text and click a matching box. The importance of getting the right emotion selected is that TBW will provide the resources which the player can sit/stand and research/listen/watch through, or be given different exercises to work with the emotion. TBW will present a routine that must be dealt with in order to resume playing,

This is all well and good, but it doesn't actually do anything to stop repeated toxicity. Nor does it take into account that different players experience emotions differently, and may need different solutions for the same sort of toxicity. Riot can't be -- and shouldn't HAVE to be -- responsible for providing therapy to its players.

...it even denies the chance to change account, and access to LoL's homepage is denied to prevent making a new one. TBW does not like cheap-skates.

This is impossible. You could simply reinstall the client, log in on a different computer, or any number of other workarounds. It also effectively makes TBW a restrictive, almost spyware-esque program on the computer, which is pretty unethical.

Telephone Booth5/11/2017, 3:51:10 AM1 votes

God... looks like a system built around the reporting and punishments of this game. Basically, a whole lot of shit I don't care about. Don't be toxic, don't cheat, don't be a dick, you'll be fine. I don't need a program to hold my hand and tell me how my behavior has been. I don't get league players... so focused on reporting and punishing. Therefore, to me it sounds like a lot of hours of work put into a pointless feature. No thanks.