Hey man, nice episode, I agree with pretty much everything you have to say about matchmaking, that's the system we were going for once upon a time, but seems the devs/hampa/whoever programmed it didn't really listen to what everybody wanted...
One caveat I have is that I still think people should be able to play in ranked servers for mod rank (not global rank). I agree that the way to make rankings most accurate is to restrict it so you can solely get rank through matchmaking, but I know a lot of more casual players who find it more fun to try and get high boxshu rank etc in the ranked tourney server than try to climb the ranks through matchmaking. And although this isn't a fair system to be able to rank up, this player base is unfortunately a similar size to the competitive player base. What if ranked servers could still count for mod ranks, but not global ranks? Imo a fixed matchmaking could be the only way to change global rank, and having mod ranks in other mods through ranked servers wouldn't affect who you were matched up with, since this is based only off global elo
I understand that this system isn't ideal either, but I honestly think it's important to have ranked servers at least as far as mod ranks.
Your thing about glicko-2 sounded interesting too, makes sense
Last edited by Moop; Mar 26, 2016 at 09:32 AM.