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So the progression through an 8 team bracket doesn't feel competitive/rewarding enough? Would larger brackets make it feel better or is it strictly the sense of winning one day and progressing to the next that is missing for you? This is only are current approach but we are always opening to hearing about what might be missing.

I can reach out to see if it's okay to share them, but I don't see why not! Give me a few hours to get a response. :D

Edit: Hey! We don't have it released yet but it might come out the next time we do a sheet music dump. Until then we have this: https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/2018/07/dev-forging-melodies/

Dedicated servers doesn't really fix the problem either. This is why we have decided to alter the design in a way that allows for a more consistent starting of games. Even with dedicated servers, if we try and start too many games at once, it just doesn't work. With this new approach the amount of game starts is much smoother over a longer period and the hope is that makes it much more reliable.

I've gotten 1300 AP on her : ^ )

That wasn't even with a veigar

No the Assassin was worked on by Stashu 100% The Champ CertainlyT was working on is much further down the road and Stashu kind of picked it up and will finish it, but CT got most of the core pattern locked down before he went to help out on another team on LoL.

I am a firm believer.

Confirmed, windowed, tiered, one-day Ranked 5's is back. We did it.

It has less to do with the client and much more to do with that many many systems that are connected to make Clash the experience we want it to be. Unfortunately there isn't one silver bullet to fix the whole thing (we looked really hard for a silver bullet) so we had to make lots and lots and lots of little changes.

We had the same idea so the different tiers will start at slightly different times. :D

RIOT HQ - INT.

A man sits at his desk. He sees a Reddit post with 300 upvotes

REDDIT: gib clash blog

The man’s eyes bulge out of his head. He begins smashing objects off his desk, then rapidly writes a 1,000 word Nexus post.

RIOTER: ez ggs

Currently slated to appear in In gem shop starting in patch 9.14.

Morde gets to keep the stats for the regular ult duration even if it's been QSS'd

To clarify, cleanse does not remove Morde ult, only QSS does

Were you in my last game?

Well, that probably means we did a good job! As we were testing early iterations of the system we would actually ask the players how they would imagine gaming the system. One sign that we were in a good spot is when most of our answers are what you said.

However, when you first start looking at the problem you might do some really obvious stuff like directly reward people for giving honor, give players flat BE for each honor they get, or give really exclusive and desirable content at high levels. Because people respond to incentive, right? If you go too far you would start seeing things like begging for honor, boosting, honor trading, players threatening to report you if you don't honor them, etc. There's a lot of stuff that is counter-intuitive that we do to reduce the potential for people to game the system. Like we don't tell you who gave you each honor, even though on the surface you would think that would help promote closer bonds between players.

CertainlyT is currently helping on another team and Stashu has taken over that project.

Fun fact: Bryan, the player who designed the skin, is the one playing clarinet on this piece.

I'm a big fan for Dan Ariely's work! This case study is why we don't do some obvious stuff like give you BE/keyfrags at the end of game screen for every honor you get, which is more analogous to the study. The way we give honor rewards is meant to lower the risk of this outcome, for example: we recognize your sportsmanlike play on login with key frags and orbs so that currency rewards aren't as directly tied to the game you played. We were conservative with the rewards we gave out (and how we gave them) so that they don't subvert the intrinsic motivation to play well in a team. Our decisions were based on best practices derived from behavioral economics studies.

These posts kinda validate that we've avoided one of the big risks of the system: the rewards are too significant and players change their behavior to try to get them (which then leads to really negative effects from people trying to game the system). The purpose of honor is to highlight that playing well with your ...

There will be but it will probably be awhile until the next roadmap since Fiddle and Voli are already announced and will be covered in the devblogs. Next Roadmap probably wont be until after the non traditional Marksmen