QOL Improvements

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I get that answer. And I appreciate it. Thank you.

Additionally, there was a guy a couple months back on the forum who requested "hard resets". His argument was that he's ranking up to Diamond too fast because of "soft resets" and is forced to play against top performers every season. He stated that he would prefer to start over and climb through the bottom tiers first instead of being thrown to the wolves every season. I will try to find that post. 

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Duster stated: I would be really happy if i could start from bronze each split than appear right on the edge of ranked with preds. At least i could enjoy the freaking game rather than being jumped on by full team with comms.

For the record. 

I'll add this... I think Ranked should function as a "big tournament". 

After a tournament ends there's nothing to do but start over. That's how tournaments work.

Additionally, there was a guy a couple months back on the forum who requested "hard resets". His argument was that he's ranking up to Diamond too fast because of "soft resets" and is forced to play against top performers every season. He stated that he would prefer to start over and climb through the bottom tiers first instead of being thrown to the wolves every season. I will try to find that post. 

I helped the Pipeworks Studio devs refine their ranked system through forum participation for Prominence Poker back in 2017, which is still being played today. Prominence Poker is free, take a look at it. I love helping developers refine the systems they create. 

In their ranked system, there is a "hard reset" every month and players are required to play "placement matches" to start each tourney. Additionally, while the devs were revamping the ranked system I started my own poker tourneys using the Playstation Community feature on PS4 until the devs fixed the issues. I created a structure for other players to use in their own Playstation Communities. It was my first time organizing tourneys and I had so much fun doing it. Some players (followers) were okay with the previous ranked system, even though it was undoubtedly flawed. The main flaw had to do with UI (User Interface) issues. I won't elaborate further. It took months to resolve.

The devs messaged me and thanked me for assisting them. Some things we agreed on and there were disagreements. My main disagreement with Prominence Poker is that the devs didn't want to compete with mobile apps and websites. Prominence Poker is the only free-to-play poker game on console, but their population is low because it's more enjoyable to play on apps/websites. I requested that they have faster paced "tourneys" similar to the apps/websites, but they declined. It is what it is. A lot of poker players on console, and PC, would play Prominence if the devs competed more with the apps/websites, but currently it sits near the bottom in the free-to-play stores. Great poker game though. 

Everybody on the Prominence Poker forum used to give me a hard time. They never liked my posts and wanted to discredit me every chance they could get. All they wanted to do was complain about the RNG. Sometimes their complaints were reasonable, but overall RNG discussions led to nowhere. After the ranked changes were resolved using some of my suggestions the community was satisfied.

Sometimes players (followers) don't know or understand what's needed for a game to evolve. It's much easier to complain instead of suggesting concrete solutions, that may or may not work. Don't shoot the messenger'. Poker forums are intense, so being here is a breeze. But the devs liked my posts and that's all that mattered to me. I like to appeal to leaders, not followers. 

Followers only care about the results given to them from Leaders.

Recon... my time on the forum is dwindling. I've had so much fun here. I might revisit the forum seldomly, as I've been doing for several years. 

Feel free to add your QOL Improvement suggestions to this post. Awesome debates over the past several months. 👏 

Excluding my blatant sarcasm on this forum, anything I list as an improvement I've thought about thoroughly. I'm aware that my suggestions will be heavily dissected and scrutinized; or ignored. I'm cool with that, have at it. 😁

Have fun playing Bot Royale. I wouldn't dare tell you what's best for your favorite mode, especially when I never play that mode. Hopefully, we'll get some PvE modes for Apex soon. 

But, overall.... We want TF3. It's time. 

I love Respawn and I'm wishing them the best through these difficult times. 💓 

Keep Ya Head Up

Love from South Carolina to the World. Stay blessed and safe!!! 💞

Once again: not trolling.

You really had me with the original post. Nothing there I could disagree with or even gripe about.

Then you appended the post with "Seasonal hard resets for Ranked. (Everybody should start in Bronze and/or play 5-10 placement matches)"

Are you saying that a player who has hit master in 50 seasons should even have the option to go into ranked in season 51 and begin the process by tearing up bronze lobbies? What is the rationale for not starting that player at least half way up the ladder? What happens to the faith of the bronze player in the competitive integrity of skill-based matchmaking? Or is this what you actually meant when you said, "Average players will be happy because by default they get to participate in the pred tourney process by naturally playing Ranked."?

- Seasonal hard resets for Ranked. (Everybody should start in Bronze and/or play 5-10 placement matches) I can't remember the process when starting over. 

Note: With the removal of Ranked splits players will have all season to grind. Some players have requested more time to grind Ranked in the past. Additionally, better Ranked rewards, an end of season pred tourney, and further improvements to the Ranked Ladder, will give players, especially top performers, a reason to stay engaged.