Originally Posted by RiotNome

Query complete.

Let me discuss my powers and limitations. As of right now, I'm still technically on the Proving Grounds team, though our post-release support is currently "limited", seeing as how the patch unfortunately borked. I'll be moving more formally to live design next week, which will functionally not mean much different for my day-to-day operations other than that I get trolled by Geeves a lot more.

On the Dominion side, what I am actually doing is scouring for actionables and sorting them into a priority list. I'm also trying to actually PLAY a lot of Dominion, because I have a rudimentary understanding of competitive Dominion minutiae. At top priority are tasks I can personally accomplish as a designer: number tweaks, slight mechanics changes, non-programmy stuff. Next are tasks that would primarily require designer time, but also require external resources such as art in the final stages: possible brush position shifts, new items, etc. Finally, there are long-term tasks that require potentially lots of people. For example, the score system overhaul thread has potential changes that will require me, tech designers, artists, and possibly UI dudes.

Then there are out-of-scope issues. I can sometimes inquire, but may not be able to drive them. Competitive exposure, marketing, ranked queue, IP/XP rewards, etc.

Originally Posted by WaterD103

Riotnome won me a little, because he seemed to give straight honest answers. I wonder about the following question. Why Dominion do not have ranked yet?

Originally Posted by ArlanKels

There are still some balance issues that Riot wants to work out, as well as letting the game mode get a bit more popular/populated.

Of course the counter point to that is the absence of Ranked is driving people away who were hoping for a more serious aspect of the game mode. An example of that is how people no longer really play Draft, because the population of drafters was so low that it was taking 3-5 hours for some people to get one game in.

So people feel that Ranked will create more people interested in playing the game.

As it stands there might be other factors, but...pickles..and things...stuff.

Originally Posted by HaIfhearted

Hey Nome, since you're gonna try to learn about our competitive scene, can I assume you will be checking out out the weekly DominateDominion tournament on Saturday?

Would greatly bolster morale for people to see an active Red in the stream chat.

Originally Posted by Fomorian27

I idle in DominateDominion on NA and Dominion on EUW when I'm online on either platform, respectively.