Rank & Matchmaking Change Request

@Midnight9746  In principle, I agree with most things.

On [Rank] Squad Up Restrictions Pt 1, I think I would have instead preferred that the resets were restricted, i.e that an ex Predator could never be reset past Diamond4, an ex-master never past Platinum 4 and ex-Diamonds never past gold4.

I also think I would rather have general a hard restriction on rank differences within premades, like max 1 tier difference (so preds only with masters, masters only with preds and diamond, diamonds only with masters and platinums etc etc). I think a Bronze pairing up with a Gold is equally unfair tbh, especially if its a premade duo and the unfairness is affecting the solo Q gold who has to play with a weaker squad. This might seem harsh against premades but dont forget that RANKED mode SHOULD be serious and as competitively fair as possible. If you wanna mess around and play casually with your premade friends, then pubs is the right mode.

But I am also pretty sure that changes like these would require a total overhaul of the RP system. Because the current, very generous RP system is almost designed to compensate for a "wide" matchmaking. A real bronze player, matched in an average silver lobby with a handful of gold players can still pretty easily gain RPs due to this generous RP system. If we gonna have close lobbies rank-wise, the total RP gains of the entire lobby vs the total RP loss of the entire lobby should be a zero-sum game, which it clearly isnt currently.  Also, I think close lobbies will be a problem for master and predators. There arent enough of them to fill up lobbies quick enough.

But like I said; in principle, I like this approach of ranked.