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We do penalize for a range of behaviors, not just use of language other players find offensive in chat. Can understand the skepticism on that. Hopefully the changes to report notifications we're just rolling out at present will help give better visibility and understanding of what's actually being dealt with how.

Chat restrictions aren't something we're looking at as a response to inting/afking. Removing chat when the problem is chat behavior makes sense. When the issue is in game actions though other approaches are needed.

As per the post late Q2's our best estimate at present, so sometime in June if I had to try and guess a more specific period.

So I know there's some trolling/joking about Janna play here. At the same time though it's true that detection needs to take context into account. Power farming jungle and not ganking? Sometimes appropriate for certain junglers, almost always inappropriate from a laner stealing everything from their jungler and not contributing. Being significantly behind everyone else on levels and spending a lot of time not farming? Can be perfectly normal for support play, warning flag for some solo laners though not all etc etc.

Can understand the skepticism, given this has been a long running issue. The commitment to talking monthly is meant to help both give you folks ongoing visibility into what we're doing and give you an avenue to hold us accountable if progress isn't happening.

That's our intent certainly. The risk of incorrectly flagging people who aren't trolling is why we're starting with a data gathering phase and then, once we've got a large enough sample size and confidence we're distinguishing trolling from unusual behavior, turning on penalties a bit later.

We think it'll be impactful yeah, though not enough by itself. The way I'm currently thinking about this issue is there are three elements that all need to be working well:

1. Detection of players ruining games
2. Appropriate penalties (ideally applied quickly) for those actions
3. Visibility into that process for others so it's understood action is being taken and that that sort of behavior has consequences

The improved notifications should help a lot with #3 there. As per the original post our next focus is on better detection.

You're the first I've seen even note that cloud soul has movement speed. The damage reduction on a skillshot you dodge (or enemy team collapse you escape) is 100%.

That's a fair call out, will make sure it's one of the things we discuss again.

Yep, that's the sort of thing that makes this tricky. It means we can't simply penalize off KDA in a single game for example, just doesn't give enough context. Incorporating a lot more sources of information (multiple games, when in the games deaths occurred, odd behavior like avoiding all teamfights/objectives, etc) should give better accuracy. Still leaves the question of what rate of incorrect penalties is appropriate though hence the interest in hearing people's thoughts on that. It's probably one of those things that also varies meaningfully by MMR, region and other contexts too.

Streamers wise - definitely not trying to move conversation away from both how streamers get affected by trolling and trolling can be influenced by streamers. Did want to be clear though that we're interested in the wider impact, in addition to how high profile players get affected.

Appreciate Riv for chiming in on this. The folks on the dev team all saw Voy's video and, frankly, we think the issue he's raising here is important enough to merit a longer conversation—not just "we hear you" and then silence. Meddler is gonna kick off that conversation with his Friday "Quick LoL Thoughts" post and then we'll take it from there.

Do you hear the rune sound when clicking the rune page card?

Have you tried opening them via Collections > Runes ?

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My additions to the setup would include a PC bang area, where people can play on computers or watch the match, and a cafe to eat at where they can also watch the matches. OH AND A merch area! So many of the teams have AC Maker Codes and Patterns, you could fill that up with hats and shirts and cool gear. People can check thru there before the games.

You could totally set this up as a stream theater for Esports Classics. Like on Saturdays invite people to your island to "watch" on the big screen that Las Vegas Finals (I was the...

I can't speak for why other people aren't responding but I love engaging with the playerbase and do so consistently. I had some time off the past few days so I had some more opportunities to engage with players.

As I mentioned in my post, engaging can be really stressful/mentally taxing for some people. With the current global situation, I don't blame others for wanting to relax instead of engaging.

In addition, aside from meme posts, you generally only want to engage when you're a subject matter expert in something. With the exception of this thread, most of the things I've posted in have been something I am an SME in (mostly to do with MFA or Vanguard).

I mean, part of the reason I'm glad the boards are gone is because they had the same problems, at least on EU (The region I am from)

For what it's worth, as one of the Rioters who was working on this maintenance I don't view it as entitlement at all. I know it sucks to have your servers down. Believe me, we don't want to do it unless we have to, and especially not during peak. This particular set of maintenances have been months in the planning with a lot of complex foundational work being setup in advance to make the actual maintenance windows as tight as possible.

As was mentioned in the short post that's been linked here in this thread, this specific maintenance is being done on a section of datacenter that happens to house some critical services for NA and OCE, that's why both were down at the same time.

This particular window was timed for the lowest point of impact for NA. Two weeks ago we did the same for OCE.

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you just did. Hello!

Though, in future, player support is a great avenue for these things.

it's very common for some players in some regions to play at 4:3 because they are used to it from PC bangs, but you will lose some horizontal FOV by doing so as /u/123456KR says, which might be a competitive disadvantage.