Can we get a Sandbox Mode?

Dalenthas·4/1/2015, 3:34:33 PM·24 votes·1,689 views

Things I'd want from a sandbox mode:

  • Ability to place enemy minions at a given location (maybe a trinket item that makes enemy minons where you click?)
  • Ability to set and reset my level and gold so that I can practice certain stages of the game repeatedly and/or test out new builds without having to spend 20 minutes stomping bots before I get all of my items.
  • Ability to rebuild towers (for similar reasons)
  • Ability to select any champion, whether I own them or not. Sandbox mode could be used to test out new champs before buying. (The same argument could be applied to skins, but I'd understand if you'd be more hesitant to allow that).
  • Ideally the mode can be used on any Map, just as any other Custom game.

Riot obviously already has some for of sandboxing available, the Champion Spotlights always have minions in odd configurations standing still. Obviously this would only be available as a Custom game, you couldn't exactly queue for a Sandbox game. This fact would reduce the burden of having an extra mode around, as queue times wouldn't be a problem and it wouldn't require any more server resources than custom games already do. I imagine maintenance costs would also be low, as there are no balance fixes you'd ever need to implement and once all the bugs shake out the odds of finding a new one are low.

Does anybody else think this is a good idea?

16 Comments

DrCyanide4/1/2015, 3:54:48 PM5 votes

Don't forget changing cooldowns so you can practice gap closers over walls.

PlayingOnATrain4/1/2015, 8:25:40 PM3 votes

The main thing should be NO NEED FOR INTERNET ACCESS.

I would love to test things when I'm on the go.

FreshMeat7074/2/2015, 6:05:44 PM2 votes

I just want a mode in League that plays like an RPG, you team up with players around the world and quest, farm, gain XP and upgrade skills and buy items in the store with champs that you have purchased, just like regular League, but instead of against each other it all kind of works like a HUGE jungle for a world. You can go out and farm on your own, but every time you take on a quest area it sets you in a queue of 5 players, just like regular matchmaking, and you all take on the boss together. I feel like it could help the community chill out and maybe even find teams and strategies for actual League matches, and maybe even have rude players chill out and trust their team members, and that could help win games if you're confident that your new friend have your back.

I know for sure that if this became a thing, i would love it forever. There are SO MANY good games that aren't RPG's that totally could be an RPG, but the fact that it could work like that is a little unappreciated. I'm not saying to change it from a MOBA to an RPG, but just add a new perma-mode that could let us do that it we wished. League could be the first MOBA/RPG combination that already has millions of players, so i feel like this, the Sandbox mode that this thread is actually about (i don't hog the whole spotlight :P) and a few other good ones that would be totally awesome, like i saw somewhere in these comments that you make an offline version where you play against/with a team of bots, this could offer enjoying League from anywhere, as well as practice for future games.

Riot, PLEASE notice all of these suggestions from YOUR community, there are too many GREAT ideas to have wasted potential. Riot, in my eyes you are already the coolest game producers for being so active with your fans, giving us awesome temporary gamemodes to surprise and entertain us, and responding to us ON YOUR OWN, NOT EMAIL-BOTS. To me you guys are the best, i want to see this game and your company blossom. FUEL OUR DREAMS, RITO!

Starf13374/2/2015, 12:14:28 AM1 votes

Good idea. Or at least the option to wander a map single-player to tinker with ideas without other players getting a stick up their butts.

helpfulolguys4/1/2015, 3:47:20 PM1 votes

Very nice concept.

Tikibaroo4/2/2015, 4:31:48 AM1 votes

Add a dps counter or total damage counter and a sandbag with infinite health. Bump this post till it gets done.

Occams Raiser4/2/2015, 6:45:07 AM1 votes

no you can't get sandbox mode. This is RIOT.

FastAsHeck4/2/2015, 12:27:18 PM1 votes

more like with chat commands, but i agree. placing bunches of minions, testing flashable walls, that kind of stuff.

Best Darius KR4/2/2015, 12:43:36 PM1 votes

Yea i don't get why Heroes of the Storms has this and League doesn't, it's dumb

BullMagnet4/2/2015, 2:19:30 PM1 votes

I like this idea!

hgjkdlsaf jeldvb4/2/2015, 12:50:14 AM1 votes

+1

YOU BEEN WARNED4/1/2015, 8:14:57 PM1 votes

Just leave urf mode in custom games.. the 80% CD/manalessness will do.

ForTheNguyen404/1/2015, 10:37:37 PM1 votes

How about getting rid of all cool downs so you can just repeatedly practice like an insec kick or a shen taunt-flash over and over?