Player Statistics

[H2H_TechMonkey]

I asked this once before in aeolus but was told it would make the game unfair.

However I still think it's a good idea and thought maybe with the change of leadership it was time to re-open the discussion?

Essentially why doesnt this game have player stats? So you can see how many games a player has played/won/lost drawn.

No. of air kills, land kills, ACU kills etc

League tables of players 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 etc.

I dont see why it would make the game unfair or stop people from playing each other, as every other online multiplayer game has this functionality and it only increases competition?

Discuss!

[Rogueleader89]

assuming you are speaking of adding this in the client and not the game itself, it sounds fine, fairly meaningless stuff though and I wouldn't want to see it in lobbies but right clicking someone's name and having a tab for it, sure; I wouldn't prioritize it over other things, but I don't see any big harm in it.

[codepants]

I just want to +1 this, I'd totally look at player stats. C'mon Rogue, you never want to know how many games someone has won or lost? Wondering if that 1200 with 50 games just got lucky in a stacked game or has actually won 3/4s of their games? Wondering why that 1300 with 2000 games is only a 1300?

Would also be interest, while loading a lobby with someone who has x global rating, to be able to see their ladder ranking without having to tab out and go look them up.

I agree it's probably not super high priority, but I, at least, would use it, if only just for giggles.

[H2H_TechMonkey]

Yeah just to client would be fine.

It would be really cool to be able to view people win/lose/draw stats

To be able to see who really is top of the ladder.

Also as a semi-amateur caster I would like to be able to provide a little more info in my vids on who a player is and how good they are.

Also it would stimulate the community when there was match that might change the top of the table or cause one clan to be knocked of the top spot for example.

I am sure the player stats must be stored somewhere and it would just need some work to get them in a readable fashion.

[Softly]

Its my opinion that tracking a wide variety of player stats is a desirable thing.

I personally would like to see this replace rating as a less toxic feedback to players.

Rating would still be there for calculating balance %, but hidden from the user.

[codepants]

I personally would like to see this replace rating as a less toxic feedback to players.

Rating would still be there for calculating balance %, but hidden from the user.

How would this work?

It's a strong possibility that there exist players of very different ranks with very similar stats stats. If you hide ranking, you could put a 500 and a 1500 in a lobby together and have them be basically indistinguishable, assuming they have played a similar number of games.

As a general rule, the more games you play, the better you are, sure, but there are very many exceptions to that rule. If we hide rank we risk putting people with the same win ratio against each other, when players with similar win ratios can have drastically different ranks.

I want the extra stats, I don't think we should make rank invisible or use it any less than we already do.
(perhaps we can use the stats to improve rank, but again, they should not replace it)

[Softly]

stats aren't designed to show your skill level, if they were then having a nice stats page would only be possible for the best players (which I think is undesirable).

If you want to balance, there will be auto-balance functionality for that in the lobby. A well programmed lobby would be able to make much better use of rating information than the average user.

[H2H_TechMonkey]

Any feedback from the Council of Settons on whether this is a possibility or not?

[H2H_TechMonkey]

*bump*

[rxnnxs]

it would then be nice to see what maps were played and how often.