Since I've got you on the horn, my background was fraud account detection at ebay and my education was forensic investigation. I do QA automation and API testing at the moment.
The pattern to find this account, and the hundreds more linked to it, would take me a day to write. I'd be happy to do that if I knew it would be put to use. Hell I'll pass on the names of the accounts if you want them to start your own search!
I’ll flag this note to the team - thx!
China has a large market. So the accounts are farmed there. Pro player or someone buys this account and gets some skins on it that they may have on their other accounts: profit. Not hard to figure out Tryn and I like you. 2FA on accounts. We need it. I believe DOTA has it and they don’t complain about it ”we can’t!!”. I just feel like the new Riot games doesn’t give a shit about the integrity of the game, but a bottom line for corporate overlords, which I get honestly. Sorry I’m ranting now. It’s just sucks to see a game I highly regarded as the best become a joke over time. It’s the Game of Thrones of video games lol: amazing beginning that got progressively worse.
We have 2FA.
Players selling accounts to each other doesn’t give us revenue and it’s against our TOS.
Most player accounts don’t spend any money.
Open to solutions!
More accounts to buy the same skins from mains? The one trick riven (just picking on riven) will buy the same skin on account 1/2/3/4/5, unless you have the data that shows otherwise. Hardware banning with Vanguard isn’t the magical fix, we understand this. Simply make these accounts only able to queue into vs AI and not players. What this will do is stop the rampant selling of accounts since you will only be able to play vs AI. You can place flags on these accounts and see the behavior and if it’s a false positive you can take said flag off.
I appreciate that you’re willing to engage with the community and I apologize if my comment comes off as rude or disrespectful but riot has the data and ability to stop this and the only obvious reason is money.
It’s not an easy problem to solve. We are taking a hard look at smurfing and account issues right now so feedback is very welcome.
It’s very simple, riot doesn’t want this to stop. If it ever stops them from making money? Then it will be addressed.
Otherwise GG go next is the only answer one can really give 🤷♂️
How does this make us money?
So then what about more fringe champs in need of VGU’s, when is someone like Nocturne who doesn’t fit into regions well supposed to get a VGU?
Theme for a season won’t always be focused on a faction necessarily, so non faction affiliated characters should still have opportunities
Read moreAbout the Elixir restrictions thing:
Elixirs still replaced each other if you activated them. You could still have one of each in your inventory, but you couldn't have more than one of any individual Elixir in your inventory. It also didn't prevent you from rebuying an elixir that was already active
I suspect it was a leftover from the tested Endless Elixirs rune ("elixirs can be stacked and do not expire") requiring you to be limited to one of each Elixir type. Item exclusion rules like this are handled by assigning items to a "group", and one of the many features of a group is the ability to limit you to a set number of items from that group at once (usually just one).
However, groups can also have their limits overridden by scripts (this is how Cassio passive locks her out of boots, by setting her Boots limit to zero, as well as when Arena had an augment allowing any number of Mythic items, by setting the Mythic item group limit to six). I imagine Rio...
Your theories on Elixirs are largely correct
How does the new Ward runes works with Fiddlesticks passive? Like Deep Ward/Grisly Mementos
Fiddle gets swapped off of Deep Ward if he tries to take it. Grisly Mementos will reduce the CD on his effigy
Bug: Inconsistence proccing of Bloodletter's Curse
As far as I know, these can grant stacks while they are not supposed to, according to the gray clarifying text (haven't tested imperial mandate yet cause all my friends are asleep so I can't try):
Comet (weirdly enough, only proc when you are outside of like 800 range based of my eyeballing)
Luden's Companion (but only if there is a champion nearby the original target)
Press the attack's 3rd hit
Lethal tempo maxed stack
Electrocute
Shield bash
Dark Harvest
Grasp
AftershockAnd aside from that, Teemo shroom DoT cannot proc it. Idk about other champions tho
We'll look into it, thank you
Bug: Mac cannot launch games - play button is greyed out saying "vanguard session initializing"
Should be fixed whenever PBE next deploys, which should be tomorrow
Bug: Cant Teleport, Spawn Dummies or do anything that need to be "placed" in practice tool
Did you load in like this or did you do something beforehand to get into this state?
Good catch, she still had her manual overrides from launch, this'll be fixed for 14.24.
Is there anything planned to yuumi? She don't buy boots at all, will be cool if she gains some unique buff like heal/shield power to compensate.
I believe Cassiopeia is getting some compensation. Yuumi I do not believe we currently have plans though since Yuumi not buying boots is a player choice.
BUG: new sorcery rune doesn’t work on Karma RQ or RE. But works on her RW healing so i assume it’s intended to work on her. would like a fix before live as karma would enjoy this rune.
Good to know, we'll make a ticket and look into it. Thank you for the report
Bug: Stuck in practice tool. Pressing the "win the game" button does nothing. Steps to recreate: Start a practice tool match. Click "Reset Game". Turrets, Nexuses, Shops, and Minions are gone. Nothing loads except your champion and the map.
Only way to leave is to hit Escape and press "Exit Game".
Yeah gonna be like probably until the next deploy, sorry about that. Either use that workaround or just avoid using the Reset Game button for now.
That should probably go into the Viktor feedback thread, not this one
^ We do not work on Viktor
The various new features of Season One are available to play now on PBE.
Any and all feedback and bug reports are appreciated, tell us here! Now get out there and try everything out!
External link →Will Syndra appear in the cinematic? 😭 she has potential to be a big thing like Viego but yall ignore her.
We'll be focusing on Noxus primarily in the cinematic (not exclusively, but primarily). No Syndra this time sorry.
Welcome!
Mr Endstep i remember you promising a deep dive into season changes once they'd be announced
Where?!?
I need a 2 hours design explaining session about the new minor runes!
Much love : D
I worked on Feats for the most part, so once the Feats stuff is on PBE I'll make a video about em.
Out of curiosity, how come Ambessa wasn't pushed back into the Noxus season?
Given Ambessa's role in Arcane we felt it was best to launch her before Arcane Season 2 was released. There's another Noxus associated character we were also already planning to do for the champ slot early next year.
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