Honor System Opt-Out Option

SirAdamMcMittens·4/13/2018, 3:31:02 AM·2 votes·1,101 views

I believe it would be prudent, for the sake of the health of other players' honor, to allow "dishonorable" players to 'opt-out' of the honor system. In essence, after games, players who opt-out would not be shown as a choice for other players to give honor to.

As someone who has been baited by 3-man and 4-man troll squads one too many times, I really see no point in receiving honor. I'll never earn enough to participate in the system at this point and would prefer to see other rewarded rather than have honor wasted on me.

Just something to consider. It would be elective, so I dont see how this could hurt the community in any way.

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Umbral Regent4/13/2018, 6:21:44 AM3 votes

With all of the potential rewards and things one could get from Honor - I think that, even for the target audience of your proposed change, the change itself would be detrimental. There really is no reason for players to opt-out of the Honor system, since they'd effectively be losing out on anything in terms of ambient free rewards.

Additionally, it would cause some confusion for other players, as normally, the only way that a post-game Honor screen would show up with less than 4 (or 2) players would be that someone AFK'd/disconnected - and that would almost certainly cause some confusion if the Dishonorable/opted-out player was active throughout the match.

So, beyond clarity and generally unintuitive design, there are two other things I want to point out.

I believe it would be prudent, for the sake of the health of other players' honor...

How would it be "for the health of other player's honor" if it's them straight-up giving up Honor and the ability to climb in Honor Rank? Granted, they could still get ambient honor from Team Honor bonus, but, they're handicapping themselves to an inane degree. It'd be like getting your arm stuck, and opting to shoot yourself in the head instead of enduring sawing off your limb.

At least, that's how I see it, anyway.

...and would prefer to see other rewarded rather than have honor wasted on me.

Honor is never wasted. Even if you think other players honoring you is a waste due to your tendencies to bite back at trolls or agitators, they're not wasted. Those players - for one reason or another - felt you were worth honoring that match. Rather than resigning yourself to some cruel, stagnant fate, why not embrace the honors, and strive to be better? To feel like you deserve those honors?

laugh0Rcry4/13/2018, 4:44:59 AM1 votes

Neither the community of "League of Honor-traders" or Riot is going to allow this to happen. Even if the honor traders do drop an honor level when they get a free honor or multiple every single game it rises relatively quickly. The skin rewards tempt players to spend money. The toxic trolls queuing together get free content relatively easily such as champs and skins because Riot doesn't regulate it well.