Master Concept for New Maps
NEW MAPS.
Currently the two main maps most of the fan base use is summoners rift for normals and ranked, and the aram howling abyss map. The game currently has 129 champs. but only two maps to really use them in. Which is something that should be addressed. The lore in this game has a unique, special and great potential. So far we get changes to lore and sometimes rare champion reworks. But the problem is that there are 129 champs so adding content the community would like is a extremely long task with a low impact on the game if its done through the champs individually. There is a better way. With new maps, entire factions of Runeterra can be addressed, like Demacia, Noxus, Ionia, Frejlord, Shurima, etc, instead of being champ per champ based.
Ideas for implementation: We need a winter snow map based on the frejlord, a desert map based on shurima, a pirate map based on bilgewater, a map based on the demacian empire, and one on noxus, one of the Void etc, until all factions have their map. Now making them different than summoners rift would make the game much more complex unnecessarily. So its my belief that it would work better if the mapswere based on summoners rift, so that most if not all of the plays and all the game lets you do on summoners rift when you control a champion is the same on the new maps. The changes could be based on this:
The map looks like a factions region. The minions and towers reflect a faction. the jungles and monsters are made according to a factions role. Changes would be applied to scuttle, dragon and baron as well visually and in sounds but same stats same everything, just a different look. Red and blue inhibitors and nexus towers and nexuses each represent an idea inside a faction and the other another idea inside the faction Ex. Bilgewater map with captain fortune and gankplank bases. Shurima map with azir nexus and xerath nexus. Every new map has a new tileset complete with new visuals and new sounds. There are slight weather effects based on the maps. The corners of the map reflect the faction, ex. space for void map, desert canyons for shurima, mountain peaks for frejlord, the sea for bilgewater, etc This idea of the new maps can be summed up into one line: Skins for Summoner Rift. Its been 5 seasons, and the Institute of War has made progress.
About the timing of the delivery of new maps, it could be atleast 1 every 6 months, until all factions are addressed. Imagine fighting in space, in the Void, or in the Deserts of Shurima, or The Snow peaks of Frejlord, basically all around the world of LoL, the potential is great of the new maps is great.
Finally I must say that I enjoy giving feedback for I think Riot is a company that listens to its customers as much as it can, and I wanna thank Riot for this great game.
Leave you comments below, and if you like the ideas support and share the concepts and let Riot know!
-SpearofAdun