Okey this will probably be a quite long post since I'm writing this after two completely ruined games. But don't worry I have some soothing music on so I should be fine. I will start with the currently flawed commend system continue with the report system and end up with the matchmaking system.
THE COMMEND SYSTEM
The commend system is a brilliant idea but currently it is easily abused and doesn’t do much to improve the environment for players. The things you can commend for are fine no need to improve that. However there are some problems such as commend swapping which could be easily solved
How it currently works
Flaws with the current system
Suggestion
Justification
Currently if you spend 1 or 2 minutes checking the chat you will easily find two or more people commend swapping. By limiting commendations to just players which you have actually played a matchmaking game with this will be eliminated. The reason it has to be a matchmaking game and not a lobby game is that it is still easily abusable. The only thing you have to do is create a lobby game, finish it fast and commend each other. Trust me people would go through that just to get commendations. No limitation on number of commendation is another no brainer. If I have enjoyed playing a game with someone I should be able to commend him even if I have played with 10 other friendly players before. To remove the limitiation on number of commendation submition towards a player is also a good thing because you might play more than one game with the same player and want to commend him for different things at different times.
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THE REPORT SYSTEM
How it currently works
Flaws with the current system
The current system dosn't work properly in creating a good enviroment for players that behave and punish those who don't. One mayor problem with the current system is that you can only report a player once.
SUGGESTION
Report submission
Justification
There is more ways to ruin a game than just intentional feeding, abusing abilities or harrass a player through text or voice chat. Adding an option to report for game ruining will cover most of the abuses like calling out team mates posistions (rosh, forest), refusing to co-operate with teammates, selling all items then leaving, buying all wards and place them in the base or even map pining abuses.
Currently when you are writing a report your only option is to send it in right away. This will in many cases lead to rage and unfinished reports. If we set a limit to only be able to report after a game is finished we will decrease the number of bad reports. If we also add a function to save your current report you will be able to continually fill in the report against a player through out the whole game. This to make it easier to the people reading the reports so that we can have better effectiveness. To make this optimal you should get a notification at the end of the game saying something like "Would you like to send in your report against player a?". Another important thing is that matchmaking should not match you up with players that you have reported and the reports still haven't been read by a moderator (this happend to me today which is why I started writing this post). Two guys had a problem with me and started courier feeding in both as well as using abilities to ruin the game for the others. By adding examples to each category of valid reasons to report we can further reduce the work which a moderator has to go through.
Chivalry points
This is were it starts getting interesting. Gabe often talks about rewarding players that are helping other players having a good time while playing. By implementing Chivalry points we can take our first steps in the right direction. The basics of how it will work is listed below. In the report system it will work in a way that blocks people that continually do bad reports while awarding players who improve the gaming enviroment.
Punishment system
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THE LEAGUE SYSTEM
This will aim at fair matchmaking and reward players who are giving other players a good gaming experience.
The dungeon
Beginners League
Novice League
FILL WITH AS MANY LEAGUES AS IS FITTING.....
Criterias which can be used
Chivalry League
I will give the league system some more though so feel free to suggest anything, if it's good I will add it to the OP. Lastly I would like to thank the two guys who ruined my games today for making me write this.
THE COMMEND SYSTEM
The commend system is a brilliant idea but currently it is easily abused and doesn’t do much to improve the environment for players. The things you can commend for are fine no need to improve that. However there are some problems such as commend swapping which could be easily solved
How it currently works
- All players can commend each other
- Players can commend others for being friendly, forgiving, teaching or having good leadership
- Max of 10 commendations (even if this isn't implemented fully)
Flaws with the current system
- Commend swaps which hollows the system
- You can only commend a person one time in total (if you commend a player for being friendly at one time you can't commend for leadership later)
- Limitations on number of commends
Suggestion
- You can only commend players which you have played at least one matchmaking game with
- You can commend people you have in your friends list if you played a MM game with them (like it currently is)
- No limitations on number of commends
- More than one commendation submition per player (so that you first can commend him for being friendly and forgiving in one game and then two days later commend him for being teaching)
Comment: this still keeps players from giving others more than 1 point in each of the commendation categories
Justification
Currently if you spend 1 or 2 minutes checking the chat you will easily find two or more people commend swapping. By limiting commendations to just players which you have actually played a matchmaking game with this will be eliminated. The reason it has to be a matchmaking game and not a lobby game is that it is still easily abusable. The only thing you have to do is create a lobby game, finish it fast and commend each other. Trust me people would go through that just to get commendations. No limitation on number of commendation is another no brainer. If I have enjoyed playing a game with someone I should be able to commend him even if I have played with 10 other friendly players before. To remove the limitiation on number of commendation submition towards a player is also a good thing because you might play more than one game with the same player and want to commend him for different things at different times.
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THE REPORT SYSTEM
How it currently works
- 10 reports per player (although this isn't implemented yet)
- Able to report for text, voice and ability abuse as well as intentional feeding
- Option to fill in additional information
Flaws with the current system
The current system dosn't work properly in creating a good enviroment for players that behave and punish those who don't. One mayor problem with the current system is that you can only report a player once.
- Too few options of abuses
- Limit on amount of reports
- Unable to report more than once
- Hard to add timestamps
- Many rage reports
- All are free to report, even players who continually make bad reports
- Lots of time is put in to look through reports and give fair punishments
SUGGESTION
Report submission
- Add Game ruining as an report category
- Save everything written in the report form (so that you can add things through out the whole game)
- Unable players to send in the report before the game has ended (you will get a notification)
- No limit on number of reports you can do towards a certain player (he might be abusive in more than one game)
- Add examples to each category on what is okey to report for and what is not'
- You shouldn't get matchmaked in the same team with people that you have an sent in a report against (and the report haven't been decided wether it was valid or not)
- If a player
Justification
There is more ways to ruin a game than just intentional feeding, abusing abilities or harrass a player through text or voice chat. Adding an option to report for game ruining will cover most of the abuses like calling out team mates posistions (rosh, forest), refusing to co-operate with teammates, selling all items then leaving, buying all wards and place them in the base or even map pining abuses.
Currently when you are writing a report your only option is to send it in right away. This will in many cases lead to rage and unfinished reports. If we set a limit to only be able to report after a game is finished we will decrease the number of bad reports. If we also add a function to save your current report you will be able to continually fill in the report against a player through out the whole game. This to make it easier to the people reading the reports so that we can have better effectiveness. To make this optimal you should get a notification at the end of the game saying something like "Would you like to send in your report against player a?". Another important thing is that matchmaking should not match you up with players that you have reported and the reports still haven't been read by a moderator (this happend to me today which is why I started writing this post). Two guys had a problem with me and started courier feeding in both as well as using abilities to ruin the game for the others. By adding examples to each category of valid reasons to report we can further reduce the work which a moderator has to go through.
Chivalry points
This is were it starts getting interesting. Gabe often talks about rewarding players that are helping other players having a good time while playing. By implementing Chivalry points we can take our first steps in the right direction. The basics of how it will work is listed below. In the report system it will work in a way that blocks people that continually do bad reports while awarding players who improve the gaming enviroment.
- All players start with 10 chivalry points
- To report someone you use 1 chivalry point
- If the report was successfull you get your chivalry point back
- If a report haven't been checked on for three weeks you get your chivalry point back
- For every second commend you get an additional point in chivalry
- If you have been abusive in a game and a successful report is done against you you will loose 5 chivalry points
Punishment system
- Replace the current punishment system with a penalty system
- You recieve 1-4 penalties per violation, depending on the degree the violation was (text, voice abuse etc)
- Penalties will be halfed every two weeks, in 4 weeks a quarter, and so on.
Once any penalty drops below 1.0, it will be set to zero and is removed from your penalty counter. It will be deleted completely 6 month after you received it. (Directly taken from dotalicious penalty system) - If a player gets over a certain amount of penatlies, lets say 6, he will be put in the low priority (which will be replaced by the system below)
- Remove "mute text or voice chat" as a punishment (it hinders the team play in a game and players can mute him if he is abusive again anyway)
OR we could keep it and add a notification in the start of the game telling players if an ally is muted and give them the option to temporarily unmute.
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THE LEAGUE SYSTEM
This will aim at fair matchmaking and reward players who are giving other players a good gaming experience.
The dungeon
- Players with too many penalties have to play here while their penalties wears off
- Replaces the low priority queue
- You can't report players
Option to make it less appealing:- No matchmaking (players is put in a team randomly)
- No stats are being recorded from the games
Beginners League
- For the totally new players
- You can have a mentor in these games
Novice League
- A minimum of 10 games won
FILL WITH AS MANY LEAGUES AS IS FITTING.....
Criterias which can be used
- A minimum of x games won
- A minumum of x games played
- At least x% won games
- Chivalry points
Chivalry League
- A league for the most skilled players with the most chivalry points
- Moderators can handpick players which they think fit in the league
- Players in the league can suggest other players
I will give the league system some more though so feel free to suggest anything, if it's good I will add it to the OP. Lastly I would like to thank the two guys who ruined my games today for making me write this.
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