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Why the Honor System is flawed

Super Goosie·11/10/2018, 3:49:31 AM·1 votes·1,562 views

I made a new account just to get the Orianna skin. i levelled up an account as quick as possible to 30 and got into gold quite fast. i was having a bad week just after that and i wasn't in the greatest mood, but like always i queue up. no hiding anything I was toxic to players that were feeding or simply not listening or trying to help win. i got reported. I logged in last week and got a chat ban....

Just to mention -- my friend that has a troll account still has not been banned nor penalised, however, one that is having a bad week and rants on chat gets penalised? ok...

The honor / report system is poor. It doesn't discriminate between people having a bad moment in life to those that are poor in character. the system should take into account the honors you've been having with the reports and send to those players with a mix (or simply to everyone getting reported frequently) a message or a warning to call down as they are being reported for X. People Shouldn't get penalised without warning and lose the honor and maybe what they were fighting for all season. For example, no decent school or parent punishes a kid without a warning. Riot should help players be nicer and good teammates not only after one is reported with a level 1 honor. it should help them before they fall.

I am sorry i was toxic and i wished i had had a warning. I bet many just like me would have evaluate their mood and behaviour and modify it if given the opportunity. Now, as i made this account just a couple of weeks before season was over i wont get the one thing i came back into the game. :(

i hope this system evolves, because it is lacking and it is quite unfair to many. i like the game and i just want it to be better.

11 Comments

Ice Weasel X11/10/2018, 4:14:05 AM4 votes

Under the old report system, the % of games you got reported for mattered heavily, so new accounts would receive pop-up behavioral warnings even if they were fairly innocent. I'm not sure if any of that carried over to the current system, but if you just created that account and got reported in 20 games, that'd be a much larger % of your overall game count than it would be for an older account.

Warnings should probably be brought back, but probably not in the form they were before. There was a randomish delay after getting reported before a warning popped up on your screen, but many players automatically assumed that report came from the very last game they played. If the warning popped up during post game chat, it caused retaliatory reports against whomever they thought reported them.

Maybe the way we get honor updates/orbs/key frags at login, a warning message could pop up instead. "You've been reported more than usual in recent games. Please remember to keep a cool head." The warning doesn't automatically get associated with a specific game that players just exited if it's displayed upon login. Since it's just a warning, it wouldn't have to conflict with honor bonuses like orbs and key frags, either.

breakordoom44411/10/2018, 4:09:40 AM3 votes

but- but.. YOU DON'T HAVE TO TALK Thing is, the system CAN'T detect a bad day, what if I'm having a whole year of shitty days? assuming that you already got banned on your first account, you were given a warning on why toxicity is bad yet you still did it, ON A DIFFERENT ACCOUNT.

just try your best not to talk.

MagicFlyingLlama11/10/2018, 5:17:03 AM3 votes

The penalty is the warning.

A lot of games will just permban the first time. You have it good here. Dont intentionally break the rules and shit wont happen.

AeroWaffle11/10/2018, 4:04:36 AM2 votes

Why were you not getting to gold on your main account?

Kei14311/10/2018, 11:44:05 AM1 votes

The system can certainly use clarity and transparency improvements.

CharDeeMcDenniz11/10/2018, 12:05:16 PM1 votes

i find it amazing how many people come here begging to be warned that acting like a douche constantly to random strangers isn't cool and has punishments

Faneseeker11/10/2018, 2:36:23 PM1 votes

You are toxic, therefore you are not honourable, hence you do not get honour or honour related rewards.

What part of that is flawed pertaining your case?

Not interested in your friend, he or she comes here I'll give them a salty welcome personally.