Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Better Smurfing - Making Low Level Games Better

One of the things that I've noticed as I've leveled my smurf is that lowbie games are filled to the brim with players who are obviously not playing LoL for the first time.  In other words, the games are filled with smurfs like myself.  And while this isn't a problem for ME, I believe that it's kind of a big problem for people who are new to the game.  They shouldn't have to play with players who can have thousands of wins under their belts when they've maybe played a hundred themselves.  At the same time, plenty of people who are smurfing aren't looking to crush new players (Or at least many of us aren't :|), they're looking to get another account to level 30.

So, why not kill two birds with one stone?  Let's make the smurfs less of a problem for new players while making new levels 30s less of a complete pain in the ass.

Suggestion:  Allow people to attach smurfs to their main accounts giving increased EXP but placing them into a seperate MMR pool for smurfs (Or just give them a higher MMR in general based on their main account's normal MMR).

I think this would be a wonderful tradeoff that would be a net win for everyone.  Smurfs level faster.  New players don't get stomped by smurfs.

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