Intro (or what do we have now)
name of the game is 'Who wants to be an Eternal'.
Everything does not depend solely on you, but also how hard do other people grind. By grind I mean bash the same people over and over due to some mythical 'matchmaking system' which obviously does not work in a way that it produces virtually same lists over and over again. And I think the pool of players isn't that shallow. And now we see it in full scale.
And what we have seen is that ppl with high points will be on your list once in an eternity. For what, protection? whose? No, it's just that matchmaking sucks (sorry, it does). This system makes you stuck and grind for 12 pts at the time and not put you where you and your team really belong on leaderboard. But that is just to make you pay for ironite. It's a good business for the moment, but not prudent long term income philosophy. People will just quit being sick of it. Why not making it reachable for players to rise on the leaderboard so they pay money with satisfaction and not the bitter taste
In my following post I will try and give one of many possible improvements . I've even broken it down on paper and I see what cons it has for each rank and it is not ideal. But as NF says - something along these lines is in order
Imo, lists should be generated solely by ranking or points and not some mythical matchmaking system, enough of those mythical stuff that fails.
One of the easiest and most obvious fair system would be to split the table in half so half of it is full of ppl with higher points, half with lower points, randomly among all players. Obvious flaws are, there is no 4 or 5 higher ranked ppl for top 3 players and no 4 or 5 lower then the last 3 players. rand U(0,1)*numberofplayers should work just fine. but that's not what I had in mind.
I wanted to make something that will make currently lower ranked players more protected, higher ranked players to sort it out between themselves (pick on one of your own size) and with more prospect for everyone to compete for top spots.
Don't hate me, it is rough, but for fairness sake it should be along these lines.
List has 10 names. Everyone should be able to give it a go against higher ranked ppl so they can see where they stand and potentialy belong. And to make our prizes well earned. Not every week should have same people collecting, it is not motivating.
Again I appeal to top players not to find this personal or boring but challenging and for the greater good of all and not just our asses (yes I consider myself one of the top players, and not owning prisoner, troll, siege, generals)
Like I've said it's rough and not absolute and has many flaws.
On every player list there could be:
1 top 5 player (20% occurrence on your list, if you are not top 5)
1 player ranked 5-25 (so we have the chance to match with all kings and you can bring anyone down from the throne)
2 players of your tier (obvious problem for high tiers for repeated names, so it could be 1 tier lower for those,
but as it should be, we should sort amongst ourselves who is better)
up to here we have issues with high ranks. top 5 will have all 4 players from top 5 on their list each time, which sucks. Lower ranks have a great chance to bring those down and rise
2 player of a one tier lower class
1 player of two tiers lower
3 players from three tiers lower and lower
everything randomly, uniformly, no mythical matchmaking.
Now try to position yourself as duelist. what do you see:
1 top 5
1 5-25
2 duelists
2 lower
1 two lower
3 three and more lower ranks. great!
I know, it sucks, but I don't want to hear crybabies but upgrades please.
