Abolish Publically Displayed Ratings

[VoiceofReason]

[VoR]Com:
New Players < 1000.
[VoR]Com:
1000 < Amateurs < 1400.
[VoR]Com:
1400 < Intermediate < 1800.
[VoR]Com:
1800 < Experienced < 2200...
[VoR]Com:
^^^That's how I see FAF. 4 Player Classes
Now lets abolish ratings and use only this XD

[Deering]

Is someone still a new player if they are <1000 after 1000 games?

[VoiceofReason]

Is someone still a new player if they are <1000 after 1000 games?

Maybe we can just find a more polite way of calling someone Newb/Noob...
I had originally titled that class "Newb"

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EDIT
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Maybe the first class can be called "New/Casual Players" XD

[nine2]

Maybe we can just find a more polite way of calling someone Newb/Noob...

lab tank bot experimental

[VoiceofReason]

Maybe we can just find a more polite way of calling someone Newb/Noob...

lab tank bot experimental

Or even, T1, T2, T3, and T4.

[Sir Prize]

I like it, don't really mind where the divisions are or what they're called. I'm in favour of less-obvious rating, it makes people risk averse and more likely to rage about losing (either at snipes/cheesey play or failing team mates) because they lose e-peen. It also makes people less willing to risk their rating and play unrated even when they are playing competitively (I admit I do it sometimes, mostly when I think I'm not feeling good but play anyway). The obvious, biggest thing though, is that 0-rateds will get more games.

But it sucks to balance games without rating, so I like the idea of having divisions that are related to your rating (the current ones are heavily influenced by how much you spam ladder, and nothing to do with custom play where rating actually has a use beyond mindgames). So this idea's good, to smurf/rating tanking-proof it a little I'd suggest leaving people in their highest-achieved rating group once the system "knows them" - ie their standard deviation for the rating formula is low enough.

There's a number of things I'd like to say about standard deviations and what rating should be affected by what games but I don't want to derail a good idea

[Hellcat]

Current rating system is just fine ..

[Resin_Smoker]

Current rating system is just fine ..

Bullshit...If that were the case we'd not see if threads like this in forms.

[ColonelSheppard]

To me it's some kind of arrogance if you put all under 1000 in one group. even the difference between like 700-1000 is sometimes enorm - not even talking about lower people. And: What the hell is the point of that? The rating system seems fine to me. I dunno what happened to cause this suggestion, i guess some random idiot left a gamelobby/kicked somebody from gamelobby because of his personal rating fetish, yet the inability to think of some, is no reason to castrate the majority instead of telling them to use condoms...

[Aulex]

Remove global rating, only have team/1v1 ladder rating