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XxColdFangxX
4 years ago
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Ranked arena idea

So I did a ranked match the other night and at the start of the match I saw the opposing team only had two players.  I bought my weapons and waited for the round to start, went through the portal an...
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    XxColdFangxX
    4 years ago

    @OldTreeCreeperI wouldn't say DCd. They just left.
    Either way the match was over in less than 10 seconds. Why does that warrant any reward??

    Sure yay free points, but nothing was done at all during that match.

    In truth the arenas ranked system needs a desperate rework, but how do we do that in a way that eliminates the smurfs but also keeps players out of tiers they don't really belong in?

    In arenas points are only assigned for winning, unlike br there is no, you lost but you did this well, survived this long, killed this many people, so you get this many points, and it honestly tanks. 

    The only thing I can think of is to eliminate the demotion, increase the amount of points needed to advance to the next level, and start basing points off how well you do individually instead of if you win or lose.

    Removing the demotion will keep smurfs from going back to the easier tiers.

    Increasing the tier goal with make players have to stay in certain teirs longer. 

    And making points based off something other than just win or lose means players actually have to work to get anywhere, and we don't get free points for matches that don't happen. 

    The smurfs will either have to put in limited amounts of damage to stay in bronze level lobbies, risk climbing to the next teir, or just not play at all and risk reports for being inactive.

    But what will keep players from climbing too quickly?

    Loss deductible. 

    Each tier would have their own loss deductible that increases as you climb higher. If you lose a match and don't do well enough to beat the deductible you don't get any points, but if you manage to beat it, you get the difference. 

    I.e if you get 150 points total and the deductible is 100, you'd only get 50 points. 

    I know it's not perfect and there's still issues about not wanting to get stuck with weak teammates but that falls to the devs fixing Mm. 

    At least with this, it takes some of the stress off, gives stronger players incentive to keep trying, and keeps them from getting demoted for a bad match they couldn't really help. So long as they beat their loss deductible they'll still earn points, or stay where they're at. 

    I think it's something to at least try and even if it's bad, if it's at least better than what we have now, we could keep it until something better is made.

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OldTreeCreeper
Hero+
4 years ago

@XxColdFangxX smurfs will always find a way. They'll just start a new one. So it's not really somthing a points system can fix. Perhaps if accounts are tied to a mobile phone number, it might get the result you desire. 

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XxColdFangxX
4 years ago

@OldTreeCreeperOh I've definitely already thought about that aspect, and I agree that it's really only going to be fixed when the devs actually care to get rid of them.
As it is now they don't. They supposedly actually allow for people to smurf.
However at least with this, they're forced to get to a point where they'd have to stop and either wait for it to reset, or make a new account.

They won't be able to team wipe and get like 3k damage matches without climbing the ladder and because of the no demotion or points lost they can't climb back down and eventually it would just be smurf against smurf, while everyone else who cares enough to try to keep getting higher, will have passed them.

It's far from perfect and there will probably be people out there who absolutely hate it, but it's hard to make everyone happy. 

The purpose of this kind of system is to keep players moving forwards and eliminate some of the stress and toxicity that comes with a competitive gaming environment. 

Aweful match making isn't as much as a problem here either because instead of just getting points for winning, it's set individually, so even if a Diamond player somehow gets stuck with gold or silver teammates, as long as that diamond player does well, they will earn points even if they lose or at the very least they won't lose points or get demoted for the crap mm.

Really, the only ones who don't benefit from this is the smurfs.