This doesn’t just apply to leavers, although it definitely can. It mostly applies to the tantrums.
Keep in mind these are things I came up with on the spot and my smol brain normally needs time to think things through completely
- Rewards
A bigger focus on the endorsement system.
Right now it kinda has no meaning. It’s only really used to see who has been punished recently.
Add more levels to it, and don’t tie all rewards to the battlepass. Add different rewards for endorsement -
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Per match: bonus BP XP and a small amount of hero mastery XP are added to your per match bonus based on endorsement level
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Weekly: White credit rewards based on endorsement level(if you’re active)
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Per season: at higher endorsement levels, exclusive endorsement specific skins
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Punishment
Raise the threshold for punishment based on reports to what it was in ow1 or higher. In it’s place replace it with a detection based system.
Punishment tiers should remain the same, although permanent bans should have an appeal and reform process after a certain time period, and the account would be under probation with stricter punishment and faster feedback if they appeal is accepted.
- Feedback
Use the detection based punishment system to actually give feedback on what players are saying. Lighten warnings to be easier to get, but increase the amount and severity of the messages as you climb tiers before you get a silence.
As players are leveling up through endorsements and aren’t getting reported, give players a percentage amount of the rewards they would’ve gotten between endorsement tiers.
Players would also receive feedback reports that they can view on their profile(privately) sampling what they have been reported for throughout the past x period of time, as well as endorsements recieved. Later implementation would give AI summary of the report text to provide feedback. Expanding on that
- Super endorsements
Players would have the limited ability to give super endorsements. These are endorsements with more weight, and give white coins and a small amount of ow coins that players can leave text based feedback for players.
These super endorsements would also be heavily emphasized on feedback.
- Partnership
This one is a big no brainier. Don’t partner with people who don’t follow your code of conduct.
However, don’t permanently cut ties and allow partners to join back if they can demonstrate they can follow the coc.