How About We Get "Voting Points" in One for All?

GetMariahCarried·10/18/2015, 5:32:54 PM·1 votes·124 views

This idea is sort of an "auction house" approach to champ select:

  • Every OfA game you play, you get a "voting point". You also get 5 points every day the queue is available, whether you log in or not.
  • You can apply voting points to your vote in champ select. A voting point "weights" your vote. One voting point makes your vote count as 2. Two makes it count as 3. You can use some, or all, or none of the points you've saved up.
  • Total majority rules still apply (if 15 points were used by all players in total in a champ select, leading to 20 "effective votes", 11 effective votes have to be to the same champ to count as majority)
  • If your choice doesn't win, you regain all points you applied to your vote (you don't pay for an auction you don't win.)

This would allow players who REALLY want to play a particular champ to express that. Although it might have the downside of making players who spam the queue the most have too much of a say in too many queues. That's why I added the "5 points a day" rule.

Three reasons I want this:

  • Watching players battle over champions, to me, would be entertaining, not toxic (although I... probably should neeeeever make that assumption in League).
  • I'd like to know that - after playing several games and, due to statistics being a pain with its inevitable outliers, not getting my vote 15 games in a row - I have a chance at SOME point of getting what I want. I'd like that for other players too.
  • I'd also like to know just HOW MUCH people want to play a particular champ. If someone REALLY wants to play a champ, I'd go with it, but if someone's just like "eh, I guess I'll try Tahm maybe. Oh I guess 20% Tahm won out against 40% Morgana. Whatever. You guys haven't played Tahm yet, right? Like a million times before?" Yeah... I'd like to not be subject to every whim.

As a person who NEVER queue-dodges on principle, I've started queue-dodging OfA, because I've seen the same crap 10 games in a row, and am just tired of it. I think it's saying something when a laid-back queue is convincing me to become a member of the dregs of the League community. Enough of this please.

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