Punishments,rewards and Honoring update suggestions.
TL;DR people may be less toxic if rewarded for good behavior. A few days ago i made a disscussion post about honoring and the lack of rewards for it, but i think i should expand on it and bring reporting into the disscussion so...
As we all know, league is sometimes a very toxic and unpleasant game, many talk and discuss the reasons for it and here is my:The punishments are not severe enough and rewards for being friendly/cooperative are non existant, which makes toxicity favored over friendlyness. First the punishments, as we all know,league has a report system, and eventually people flaming,feeding, trolling and using racial/homophobic slurs will get chat/game restrictions and then a ban. However, there are several problems with such a system. The first one is that it takes time, some people will take weeks or even months to be punished, and unless a rioter is involved the system cant detect more subtle harmfull behaviors.
The second is that even before being able to report you have to play a full game with the offenders. And the third and most important one is that most league players have more then 1 account, so even if their account gets banned they will just jump to another one(Tyler1 being the prime example prior to his Ban On Sight punishment) or just buying a bot level 30 account(or even a boosted so they get straight to high ranks). Now you may be asking, how do we solve this problem? After giving it some though i came to a conclusion that any way Riot could solve those issues by punishments would be way too opressive towards the community as a whole, so you may be wondering, is there no way for league to become less toxic? And my answer is no, there is a way, there has always been one, and thats honors. Now, before you say something about the honoring system being worthless, i am with you, i too agree that the current honoring system is flawed, which brings me to my core point, the honoring system update/rework.
First of all, a reward is needed for being consistently sportsmanslike and friendly, as i suggested in my privious post minor ip,rp or ip boosting bonuses at the start would be nice, increasing as the player continues to be honorable. Second the crests of honors should add more then just a barely noticable banner, exclusive skins relating to the crests, unique options avaible to the holders and increased honoring rewards would all be an amazing additions. Third thing that i would like to be changed if my other suggestions get implemented is a limit on a number of honors someone can give per week or a month+restriction from honoring premades and friends, this way honorfarming could be avoided at least partially.
I think that by encouraging people to act positively(with rewards) riot could significantly improve the average players behavior.
And additionaly, as my personal suggestion, some vs bots queue where newbies could join to play with people willing to teach them how to play and explain the game, or an ability for Great Mentor crest of honor holders to enter a coaching position in a game with new player would be great in improving the new player experience. Suggesting items and skillbuilds for them ingame would also be really nice. Also honoring for more then 1 aspect and additional honor types would also be very welcomed additions to the system.
A bit of background: I played league since Zak came out and had a crest of honor ever since i can remember, got teamwork crest replaced with great mentor late season 3 and kept the Great Mentor one to this day, i spend most of my time on league playing bots trieng to help people relax and calm down from lost games, also helping new players when i meet them.
Also as in my last post, a small poll on satisfactions with leagues behavior feedback systems.
Feel free to share your opinion about my suggestion down at the comments section and give your own ideas and suggestions.