Remove the "Helpful" honor and people will honor more

Hyrum Graff·3/1/2016, 4:42:11 PM·2 votes·682 views

When I honor someone, there are only ever two reasons: Gameplay and Attitude. If someone carried me, or if they pleasant to play with.

**Yes, there are different ways that a good attitude can show itself **-- encouraging people to stay positive, shutting down that flamer, giving good advice, or just joking around. Just like there are different ways to carry -- mechanics, shot calling.

I don't think about those when I honor. Instead, I want a quick and easy way to show my appreciation. The more time and effort it takes to decide which honor to give, the less likely I am to do it.

Ideally you'd find better names for the existing options, but simply removing an option is easier on QA.

7 Comments

Korillo3/1/2016, 5:01:13 PM1 votes

How dare you make me read this with my own 2 eyes

disregardable3/1/2016, 5:28:26 PM1 votes

Rest in peace all of my helpful honors, stupid ass 2 week ban. I really prided myself on those. I had built up like 50 of them, and people do not give those things out willy nilly.

Iqqi3/1/2016, 6:30:06 PM1 votes

There are a ton of things wrong with this system. Their intentions were good but there was no follow through. This whole thing was likely scrapped ad only left where it is because it was not worth the financial commitment to figure something out when they wouldn't make anything by adding or changing it.

The system at it's heat is flawed. Players judging one another completely on their emotions after a game. There is no incentive to accurately use this system to acknowledge someone who is the kind of player Riot wants to promote.

People rarely use it because it is pointless. If you hit some ridiculous figure you get a little sash over your picture. Hardly enough motivation to get the a demographic who play league to use the system to honor someone.

Anyway I would of liked to see the system adapted but completely remove the players from laying praise with the exception of honorable opponent. They have the machine that identifies and verifies toxic or unacceptable behavior at some extent. It would be very easy for their system to be copied and adapted so that it would reward all players in a game who behaved correctly. Relying on people to do this would never work. If I get through a game and behaved appropriately Riots system should acknowledge that.

Why would we care?

Well Riot would still have to find a way to make this even matter to you. There are several cosmetic things Riot can add to this game as incentives that would not cost them money (outside of time spent creating) and a couple that would, but might be a large benefit in the end.

I would like to see Riot create special summoner icons for those who behave well.
In game emote animations. Just like we have the mastery one. There should be one you only get for having a track record of good behavior.
In game chat font color. (I hate in-game chat) but I would like to see this person having a different font color. Like green or something. Have this through league not just in game.
Champion skin shaders. This one would cost the most to implement. I wouldn't build a whole new skin. I would create a system block that could be unlocked after you get "good behavior" unlocked and you can add unlocked shaders to your skin that would change the color of your champion armor when equipped. Shaders are extremely common in most games already.

Anoni K3/1/2016, 8:05:04 PM1 votes

I was thinking they should change the system to have 2 options at the end, "Don't match me with this person ever again" and "I would like to play with this person again". When in queue the system could look for players that had the positive option for each other. And even if trolls picked the 'match me again' option the normal people would have rejected them. And if you're indifferent just don't pick either.

Çhåryzård3/1/2016, 8:26:35 PM1 votes

The entire system needs a rework. I joined about 2 (gonna be 3 in June) years ago and I'd see people with ribbons pop up every once and a while....I haven't seen anyone with a ribbon in months now. It's been so long.

Nobody honors anymore, it isn't seen as important as reporting. Imo, rewarding GOOD behavior is just as important as reporting BAD behavior, but people are too lazy to reward. If you are lucky enough to get a ribbon somehow, you won't keep it for long. I don't know how, but somehow the system needs to be reworked so kind, helpful, and overall just awesome people get recognized.