Ranked Restriction also for special Modes?

Phobos Selini·Feb 20, 2015·1 votes·801 views

I played a few games of Nemesis Draft and had a pretty bad experience, because they were filled with a lot of toxic players. Maybe just an unlucky accumulation. But after that I thought about modes like Nemesis or URF.

These are fun modes that Riot develops to treat us with a small special. They are supposed to be played for fun in a relaxed environment. So since they are not really important in the grand scheme, maybe the ranked restriction should also apply to the special modes. So the most toxic players can be sorted out of these modes as well.

I mean many players are very eager to play those new modes when they come out. Think about how big of a punishment it would be for toxic players to not be able to play URF when it comes back. It would be an even greater incentive to behave properly, if not only the ranked modes were banned for these people.

So Riot I would strongly suggest to consider to also apply ranked restriction to special modes for the most toxic accounts in the playerpool.

What do you think?

6 Comments

MrPerson10Feb 20, 20151 votes

+1, like it.

Ranked is, and should be, a privelege to play - as should be the special game modes

Also, pls bring back URF as a full time game mode. A mass majority of the community seemed to love it.

Phobos SeliniFeb 20, 20151 votes

Of course there are quite some people that liked URF, because every champ got heavily overpowered. But the mode can never become permanent, because it was horribly balanced. The very strong but simple changes to the champs threw the balance completely overboard. Do you remember that over the period the mode existed more and more champs had to be completely disabled, because they were so utterly broken. It was fun for a few games but nothing more. I enjoy the better balancing of the basic game a lot more in the long run.

MrPerson10Feb 20, 20151 votes

Idunno about anyone else but I spammed Zed with 6 BTs in URF for just about as many games as I could. It was fun, and a good way to learn his basic mechanics for me.

Granted, it did nothing for learning his CDs and how to properly use him in a real game, but it certainly got me acquainted with the effectiveness of his kit.

But that's the point of it - despite champs being utterly broken and quite frankly annoying, it's played for fun (like ARAM when it was temporary) and should be as such rather than competitively.

Phobos SeliniFeb 20, 20151 votes

ARAM was never temporary. It was a custom mode that was played in custom games where people agreed to the rules to not go away from mid. Riot just built a map for it eventually. After all ARAM is by far not as broken as URF because there are no major changes to the champs.

But we digress from the main topic of this thread. So I want to end the argument about URF.

MrPerson10Feb 20, 20151 votes

Custom, temporary, you got the point I think.

Point is, they're meant for fun rather than something to be competitive and whatnot, I feel like people should be restricted from these game modes if they're deemed toxic as they're more of a privelege than anything

Phobos SeliniFeb 20, 20151 votes

The purpose of ranked restrictions is to not exclude the toxic players entirely. If you just use time bans people will often use a smurf account for the banned time.

On the other hand a punishment has to take something away that people really care about. It has to annoy the offender so that he really learns something and wants to change. At the moment it takes away the ladder system where people can fight for their league and stuff. The amount of threads with people complaining about the RR beeing too harsh shows that it works pretty well.

Taking away the basic game modes like aram or dominion might be to hard on the other hand. You heavily reduce the content of the game.

The special game modes are another thing though. They are only small treats for a short amount of time. Normally a lot of players want to play the special modes at least a little. If they are restricted to toxic players the punishment wouldn't exclude major game features. But the punishment would be quite noticeable if these highly wanted game modes are not available to them.

I'm not so sure about the matchmaking but I recognized some very unequal matches when I played some of the special modes. So I suppose they might not use your normal MMR. This also leads to increased toxicity. It is the same as in Lvl 1 games. Of course there are the toxic smurfs that just don't care about their low accounts but I think also the high disparity between skill levels increases the stress level. So that would be another reason to exclude toxic people.