Stupid idea: High priority queue
So most of us have heard of the LPQ or "prisoner's island" system that DOTA does and that has been roundly rejected for implementing here. In short, you BM into the chat box, you find yourself only playing with other people who do the same.
Satisfying, in a justice served kinda way, but tends to create even more nasty players, so we don't do it.
What would you think of the opposite? A queue where people who have excellent records and never flame get to play together, certain that even if they don't enter with a premade, they'll never get a flamer, ragequitter, inter, etc. on their team?
It would work something like this:
- You apply for it, along with providing some kind of government-issued ID proving your name
- You'd pay a token fee for this process, and perhaps a monthly recurring fee of some kind.
- Your account is audited to ensure that you have never been punished (or not within a very long period, like a couple of years)
- You now have a HPQ account and have access to the queue. Your account is otherwise unaffected.
- If you ever receive a punishment for any reason, you (the person) lose access to HPQ permanently, with the ID check serving to verify that you can't just come back with another account.
Some other optional benefits:
- Your reports in HPQ games are validated by a human, every time, with status (accepted/rejected) provided for every report.
- This is part of the reason I suggest a fee for this - it would require not insignificant time and money for Riot to implement
- False reporting would get you kicked out
- HPQ players can see their own raw ELO, ping times for all on the load screen, and other information that's was hidden because it led to abuse directed at players. Here, that wouldn't be an issue.
Any thoughts?
