Suggestions for Map Updates
Rick here, and this is (I think) my first time posting. I love the game, and I've been thinking for a long time now of ways to not only make the community better but the game more fun in general. That said, I'll try to be as concise as possible, with a TL;DR at the bottom with bullet points.
I'd like to preface the following 3 suggestions with a statement that they should probably not be used in ranked / competitive play. Keeping things consistently standardized is a huge part of what allows for the competitive nature of the game, and even something small (like visual clutter) can alter that.
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Unless there's some lore that would explain why - using Summoner's Rift as an example - we wouldn't see snow / leaf color changes (aka Autumn), etc., I would love to see more visual changes to the map(s). We wouldn't necessarily need Thanksgiving themed items laying around the map in November, but having the trees change color might be a bit of a refreshing experience for people who spend hours upon hours on the rift.
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Next, I'd love to see alternate versions of Summoner's Rift, using themes from other parts of the lore. An SR version of Demacia? Or Bilgewater? We just altered the ARAM map for this exact purpose for Gangplank and Friends, but I think it'd be cool to have the different in-game models adjusted for alternate versions. Again, this would expressly be for a change of scenery for those of us grinding game-after-game, and maybe have a group of boxes you can check / uncheck at the start of a match that the client will randomly choose from based on the selections of all players in the game. While I do like to vary my game-modes up (ARAM, SR, TT), I love the lore that's coming out of the game right now I'd like to see some of the Bilgewater / Piltover influences on the map outside of reading about it / character design.
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Lastly, and the only suggestion here that might make waves due to not being a cosmetic change...I think it'd be fun to see weather effects. If we were to get "seasons", why not add in some weather mechanics, randomly generated. For example, if it's Winter we might get a snowstorm, which would slow movement speed of all champions across the map and reduce vision range. If it's summer, we might get a sudden rainstorm that reduces vision range, or we might get a "super sunny" variant that actually increases vision. Just a thought.
For the TL;DR crowd:
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I'd like to see seasons in the game; visual changes to the map.
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I'd like to see alternate versions of maps based on lore...not just the same Summoner's Rift game after game.
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I'd like to see weather effects that alter gameplay and add a bit of chaos to the game (but nothing so major that it makes the game one-sided for specific champions).
I'd love comments / reactions to this; even though my friends are all in agreement that we'd like to see changes like this, they are too small of a sample size to see what the community thinks of this as a whole.
Thanks!