How the hell did the new HUD get pushed out with nobody noticing THERE AREN'T ANY DOMINION SCORES?

Acorn for Life·Jul 26, 2015·74 votes·4,395 views

Seriously. What the fuck.

50 Comments

Ariel the CruelJul 27, 201548 votes

THERE AREN'T ANY DOMINION SCORES?

I'm confused. What's Dominion?

Finn WarhammerJul 27, 201514 votes

Wasn't it a featured mode a couple years ago?

Revlak JavikJul 27, 201514 votes

Thought it was an old item they got rid of with Heart of Gold...

RetillinJul 27, 20158 votes

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe Dominion is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

Ariel the CruelJul 27, 20154 votes

But why would we need the scores for that?

Laughing FishJul 27, 20157 votes

You are all wrong. Dominion is the name of the arena where the Hindu god Zeus slayed the leprechaun during the battle of Ragnarok. It is known.

LaceUp23Jul 28, 20151 votes

You ruined the cool chain they had going.....

iainB85Jul 27, 20152 votes

Haha, you remember that video where they amped it up and made claims like, "This is the evolution of the MOBA genre!" and stuff like that.

LOL.

UndefeatedJul 27, 20154 votes

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I'm confused. What's Dominion?

It's a gamemode created for Pool Party Grinding.

PunkkeeJul 27, 20152 votes

bro

Emperor TimeJul 27, 20151 votes

What's a Dominion???

RebonackJul 27, 201514 votes

I'm honestly puzzled that some folks think this is a bad thing.

The score system rewards people for standing around on points like a 'tard.

It's about as bright as standing on an enemy ward and doing nothing over in Rift.

Seriously, the score system is awful. It needs to go away forever.

FDruJul 27, 201510 votes

I hate to be optimistic but they probably "forgot" about it on purpose.

Well in reality they probably were just maintaining the status qou of putting as little effort into Dominion as possible, and it was easier to not include personal score than to carry it over.

Either way, good fucking riddance.

CindikleJul 27, 20158 votes

Wait.

You thought Riot cared about Dominion?

PikmintsJul 27, 20152 votes

We should've realized they completely dropped the project when they didn't bother updating the Dominion specific items when they did the AP overhaul. If they would have stated a reason then it would have been fine, but it really does seem like Dominion gets less attention than the featured game modes now.

Kholdstare13Jul 27, 20152 votes

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We should've realized they completely dropped the project when they didn't bother updating the Dominion specific items when they did the AP overhaul. If they would have stated a reason then it would have been fine, but it really does seem like Dominion gets less attention than the featured game modes now.

Sure they did. They put the new NLR into Wooglet's, basically the only AP item that matters. (outside of spookyghosts but that's fine as-is).

SKOBODOJul 27, 20158 votes

Lots of people noticed it, and pretty much everyone that I've talked to think hiding it was a good idea. We've been asking for the score system to be removed for years, and this is a step in the right direction. The reason the score system is still there is because it's hard-programmed into the map, for some reason, so it's hard for Riot to remove it.

Kholdstare13Jul 27, 20153 votes

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Lots of people noticed it, and pretty much everyone that I've talked to think hiding it was a good idea. We've been asking for the score system to be removed for years, and this is a step in the right direction. The reason the score system is still there is because it's hard-programmed into the map, for some reason, so it's hard for Riot to remove it.

That's their excuse, but hiding the popup text and keeping it off the scoreboard can't be that hard. I could probably make a client mod to do that in a week or so working alone. Who really cares if it's tracked invisibly, as long as nobody has to see it?

SKOBODOJul 27, 20152 votes

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That's their excuse, but hiding the popup text and keeping it off the scoreboard can't be that hard. I oculd probably make a client mod to do that in a week or so working alone. Who really cares if it's tracked invisibly, as long as nobody has to see it?

You can hide the popup text in the options if you want. Riot should probably make that the default (assuming it isn't already, I'm not quite sure). And one week of work for one person is still a lot of money. If Riot could do it in an hour, they might do it, but several hours of work? I doubt it. That being said, I don't know how long it'd actually take to hide the score system altogether.

Kholdstare13Jul 27, 20152 votes

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You can hide the popup text in the options if you want. Riot should probably make that the default (assuming it isn't already, I'm not quite sure). And one week of work for one person is still a lot of money. If Riot could do it in an hour, they might do it, but several hours of work? I doubt it. That being said, I don't know how long it'd actually take to hide the score system altogether.

Not that long for them. They already have full access to the source, while I would be digging around files trying to find where things are coming from to properly mod. Then factor that I, as a non-artist would need to design a scoreboard layout to fit the reduced data, something Riot's UI designers could throw together in an hour or less, I'm sure if the teams coordinated it could be done in under a day.

Kholdstare13Jul 27, 20157 votes

Stop complaining. This is a GOOD thing. Riot would never do a good thing on purpose, but they managed to accidentally fix this one. Score is the worst thing to ever exist. It's entirely misleading, "rewarding" people for game-losing behavior. It's the biggest noobtrap and barrier of entry to Dominion. We've been asking for years to have it removed, and FINALLY it's no longer on the scoreboard to distract people. We need it removed further, hiding the popups when you earn points and wiping it off the end game recap.

Sp00ky SenpaiJul 27, 20154 votes

As someone who loves dominion [and man do i wish i didn't :( ] and plays on the PBE i can tell you that nobody plays dominion on PBE..at all....like i gave up after a 1 hour of wait time. Twisted treeline is the same but at lease during the maps update you could get 5 other people to join a custom game for "spooky buff" testing. Even then it took over 15 mins to find 5 other people for twisted treeline.

Sorry to say this but no changes done to dominion will ever be tested on the PBE before launch UNLESS its some huge major overall.... actually even then i doubt it.

Ikrit122Jul 27, 20154 votes

Is it bad that I lost it reading this? I laughed for a good minute, and I'm still chuckling.

Dominion and TT are like Yorick: most of the community (and Riot, I'm sure) forgets they exist

SaphixiaJul 27, 20151 votes

TT ATLEAST gets a few players, its a bit more like quinn, it eh but rift is better

MeatwickJul 27, 20154 votes

Dominion? Renekton 's ultimate?

Sargan27Jul 27, 20154 votes

they also didn't notice that their new item brought wards to 3v3, what did you thought would happen this time?

RebonackJul 29, 20154 votes

There used to be quite a few more Dominion players, but Riot has basically ignored the map to death through their lack of support.

The fact that bot have been driving away new players for years now doesn't help.

Photos of GhostsJul 26, 20153 votes

RITO GAMZ

OperationDEEZ1Jul 26, 20153 votes

FIX YOUR SHIT.

BiffoloJul 27, 20153 votes

Honestly, when I was doing bug hunting on pbe, I completely forgot dominion existed. I think others might have done the same thing,

DrNovaJul 27, 20153 votes

Whats Dominion?

The LovelessJul 27, 20153 votes

the queue for dominion on PBE is abyssmal

ElJanitorFrankJul 26, 20152 votes

I noticed. I only play custom full bot games on dominion if I want to dick around a bit, but I still noticed.

Does it affect anything, by the way? I'm curious if it does, because I didn't think it did. Obviously it's a way to see how well you did without using KDA, but is there anything besides that?

Ariel the CruelJul 27, 20152 votes

Nope. It affects nothing at all. Because Dominion doesn't actually exist. ... According to Riot.

MinardeJul 27, 20155 votes

Obviously it's a way to see how well you did without using KDA

It's not really useful for that either. Personal score is roughly equivalent to the SR Battle Training tutorial. Both systems are vaguely helpful in introducing people to how to play, but aren't good for much else. Furthermore, personal score could be considered a negative feature, since it's so prone to causing misunderstandings about game contribution and couldn't even be hidden (until now).

DedriusJul 27, 20152 votes

Riot 1: "hey guys... remember that domination or whatever gamemode we made a while ago? I think we forgot about it for the HUD"

Riot 2: "No its fine I think we got rid of that game mode a while back"

Rip

DrCyanideJul 27, 20152 votes

https://youtu.be/QdZqDOZd5Xg?t=1m39s

Instalok took the words right out of my mouth.

Monsta MooJul 27, 20152 votes

~~The only time I ever played that map was for the Shurima event lol, hardly anyone plays it~~

CerbearusJul 28, 20152 votes

Because Riot would love the Crystal Scar to just disappear.. Oh wait it already has in lore

RebonackJul 29, 20152 votes

It did.

You could ping a bot to get your hidden Dominion ELO, but Riot removed that ability with the Lulu patch. It caused a lot of more serious players to leave because they couldn't track their progress anymore.

KalarepaJul 27, 20151 votes

Upvoted, cause this is hilarious.

JacobofcourseJul 27, 20151 votes

I don't think real people play dominion. My buddy and I decided to play it the other day and all three teammates were bots. I guess bots aren't in the PBE to let league know it can't see the scores :)

ChatillonJul 27, 20151 votes

Is Dominion another one of those things like those 'gurls'?

TotN TitanJul 27, 20151 votes

I'm alright with that. I didn't even know Dominion existed.

jmaishereJul 28, 20151 votes

Because dominion is so full of bots, no one cares

DarkwindJul 28, 20151 votes

Much the same way Luden's got pushed to live without people realizing it existed on Crystal Scar with a NLR and 120 AP.

KögâJul 28, 20151 votes

Ha.... haha..... HAHHAHA

ManwalrusJul 29, 20151 votes

Too bad there aren't really many people that play dominion, just a bunch of bots, I played one just for lolz a minute ago and my friends and I were the only humans in the game. http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1902421120/210838453?tab=overview

Kholdstare13Jul 29, 20151 votes

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Too bad there aren't really many people that play dominion, just a bunch of bots, I played one just for lolz a minute ago and my friends and I were the only humans in the game. http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1902421120/210838453?tab=overview

Win more. Bot elo is insanely low. Get above them.

ManwalrusJul 29, 20151 votes

I hadn't played dominion since season 4, I didn't know dominion elo existed.