ladder players in global

[RoQe]

now here is the thing, alot of people play ladder, not alot are good at it though but there is always that one guy who has barely 1k or sub 1k rating in global, so in most balances you will mark him as someone who has to be carried if you are in a 1.2k average game. Now this player also could have been playing ladder on the side and have 1.3k rating there, which will make him effectively a much stronger player than his rating suggest and will probably cause him to be imba in most situations, even though teamplay will lack in him he will stomp in the early game. I do know that this will usually be fixed by how the rating system works on its own by correcting his rating within a few games (20 ish), if it wasnt for maps with dedicated airplayers who tend to sometimes just do nothing and get the team killed, even though the ''smurf'' was having a field day farming up kills.

SOLUTION:
1. make it easier to find someones ladder rating, leaderboard takes a while and it gets difficult with ridiculous names.
2. make ladder rating taken into account with the lobby autobalance.
3. show in one way or another ladder rating in the global ingame lobby?

[Gorton]

1 and 3: It's been suggested multiple times and is planned.#
2, not so much. It can't really be done.

[Col_Walter_Kurtz]

I would be against showing global as well as ladder rating in lobby. For aesthetic reasons as well as functional ones. Perhaps you could avoid clutter by showing ladder rating on mouse over only. But lots of people don't play ladder at all, some play it badly while mastering custom maps and vice versa. Meaning that it is better to just wait for the global rating to settle at an accurate value. This thread is in the same category as the suggestion to factor in number of games played or K/D ratio: it's redundant and ultimately inaccurate.

[keyser]

I don t understans how it can harm so player that ladder rank is displayed.
They suck at ladder ? Who give a f***, you are going to play a team game. It just allow good ladder player to show that they can be somehow more competente than what global rating sugest

[Cuddles]

rather show apm.