The Ultimate Ladder Solution

[Mad`Mozart]

So after (not) much thinking i came up with this brilliant and (not so) complicated idea.
Lately ladder activity at higher ranks became almost nonexistent, so if you dont want players to be leaving FAF you have to do something about it. And here's the ladder overhaul idea that (maybe) will make it more fun to play.


First, we split ladder into 2. Then we reset all ladder rating to start new season.

The first casual one is called The Pussy Ladder. It will use current players rating to match them, but games will not affect their rating at all. Specially designed for all those newbies, crybabies, whiners and pussies who "have no time to play a long game" etc. The maps will be exclusively 5km and couple other 10km maps that are small enough or are popular demand among these players. Also they are unlikely to change and stay the same for long period of time.

Second ladder will be our usual ladder how we liked it with all the cool stuff we couldnt have before. It will be exclusively top player oriented and called --- The Professional Ladder. Only high rated players opinions will be listened to and maps are chosen more to their liking. It will be season based, 30-40 maps per season with part of them rotated by Player Councilor with the start of every new season. Every player will have to choose a minimum of 15 maps (else ladder wont start and ask to choose enough maps). When players are matched, dice will be thrown to choose from which player's pool a map will be picked, also the more times your pool was used to pick maps, the less chance for it to be used again in next match. Every player can veto up to 4 maps (optional). Also possible feature - additional map pool, consisting of 15 top selected maps around your rating (+/-150).

[Blodir]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Asv8rQDfoJa6-4b911qK2_VWu_xWWQYJK79wObUR6mY/edit?usp=sharing

It's not really done, but you get the idea

[dstojkov]

Hi



I have already proposed this solution but zep didn t wanted it... some faf members added to this idea I was surely trolling ... so, so much about it



Regards

[Myxir]

Hi



I have already proposed this solution but zep didn t wanted it... some faf members added to this idea I was surely trolling ... so, so much about it



Regards

not helpful, right now you're just trolling again


i'm not sure if two seperate ladders are sustainable if there are hardly players for one

[Mad`Mozart]

i'm not sure if two seperate ladders are sustainable if there are hardly players for one

But they are not separate, thats the whole idea.
Pussy ladder uses 1v1 rating but otherwise its sort of a custom games option. Im absolutely sure it wont affect popularity of the actual ladder cause you just dont get any rating there.

[ZLO_RD]

i'm not sure if two seperate ladders are sustainable if there are hardly players for one

But they are not separate, thats the whole idea.
Pussy ladder uses 1v1 rating but otherwise its sort of a custom games option. Im absolutely sure it wont affect popularity of the actual ladder cause you just dont get any rating there.

I think separations indeed bad, but remember that you also please more players so there will potentially be more players.
And most important : i am pretty sure you can make it so you can search in both ladders at the same time, and if there will be team matchmaker, search in 3 things at the same time

[Mad`Mozart]

Yes what ZLO said is absolutely right, the point is to please those who always cried about 5km maps, fast games etc. Also best solution for new players to learn the game, as they can always play unranked 1v1 to learn the game without any stress and move on to real ladder any time... if they want. Basically its just a slave ladder.

And everyone who thinks "separation is bad" etc. i reeeeaaaallly doubt that it will be popular among higher rated players cause from what i learned almost all of them prefer bigger maps. On top of that, noone said that there will be no 5km maps in real ladder too What we have right now is simply not working, lower rated players disappointed with lack of small ez maps and higher rated with lack of variety.

[keyser]

i do agree with mozy, this make more sense than the current situation

[angus000]

So, basically, unranked 1v1 matchmaker?

The fact that this could be needed serves to show that the faf playerbase is splitted in pros and noobs

[ZLO_RD]

So, basically, unranked 1v1 matchmaker?

The fact that this could be needed serves to show that the faf playerbase is splitted in pros and noobs

Splitted on normal players and tryhards