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[pure obsidian]

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[errant rune]

The main question for something like this, is how you approach opponent difficulty.

Currently you get different rank points for winning/losing against a Grandmaster than against a novice.

If you play a Grandmaster, who’s trying this specific map/setting for the first time, would you get skillpoints for beating a Grandmaster overall, or for beating a novice on those settings?

[ripe yew]

@covert maple Sorry to remove your reaction - can add back - I was fixing up the reactions order going wonky - should be working now*

[static adder]

I think a part of the idea is a GREAT way to open new doors, new points of view !!

Which “calculate ranks for every sitting/maps BUT NOT in combinations. JUST every Single sitting & maps by itself (in the beginning we can start with few, the most popular for example”
BESIDES keeping the AVERAGE Rankings

Why thats GREAT for all off us?

Most of GMs talked publicly that they play mostly just 1 or 2 types of sittings & maps.

Even every known Risk Content Creators specialize mostly in 1 or 2 types of sittings & maps

Imagine this !
When we have rankings list for each single sittings & maps
Will discover that most of Top GMs are NOT the Top in most ranking lists !!
That will open many new doors of opportunities & competitions & races to Thousand of players Not just the hard ride to average top 200.
It gives them Hope & a practical clear way to rise in a new category witch not crowded

That will push players to PLAY MORE !!
TRY MORE Settings & MORE Maps !!
I think its a WIN/WIN Idea 💡👌🏼

Please consider to test it in some popular settings/maps
& some unpopular settings/maps

Maybe that’s help to see the potential clearly.

[edgy nest]

Rank gained/lost is position based and an average of the players so I don't think its that important. Regardless I would imagine it would depend on how the leaderboard works. Like is this a real leaderboard like the FFA and 1v1 or is this just something you have to look up online? If its a real one then I would imagine it would be like the 1v1 one is. A FFA GM can be a 1v1 novice and you get points based on the mode you are playing. If its just a random online leaderboard then I don't think it matters much. As a side not if a GM loses because blizzards are on that shouldn't cause them to be ranked as a novice.

[hearty sandal]

I think there would be multiple calculations for every game. Current rank of all players for general leaderboard calculation, setting specific rank of all players for the settings ofthematch. I wouldn't mind having to go to a website to see this... I would definitely play more games per season to "own" my favorite settings...

[edgy nest]

Sure I definitely wouldn't mind having to go to a website either but how are you breaking up the rankings? If you only ever play Classic fixed and you're a GM, then one time you play with blizzards on, do the rankings count you as a novice for that leaderboard? Or are you still a GM? That's the question. And if there's a leaderboard for every single setting then that's millions of leaderboards ( I haven't actually done the math here). Because Progressive capitals plays very differently on Iceland than it does on Europe Advanced. And progressive capitals on Europe Advanced is very different than Fixed Capitals on Europe Advanced so you would need a leaderboard for every single possible combination of settings and maps

I think my solution would be that SMG takes the top 10-20 settings based on total number of games played and makes leaderboards for those based on position. So you could have a system like this
1st: +3
2nd: +1
3rd: 0
4th: -1
5th: -2
6th: -3

So there's no rankings like you're a novice or Master at those certain settings. Its just a leaderboard of whoever has the greatest total at the end of each season. And you would have to play a game on those settings to get on the leaderboard (so there's not 3 million people with 0 points on every leaderboard)

[hearty sandal]

Ah, yes if it was exact game settings that would be “millions” (I don’t want to do the math either.

I was thinking “independently calculated leaderboard” for every toggle. Have the existing leaderboard calculate, but also insert all players as novice with 0 points into

• each game mode
• fixed and prog
• tr and bb
• blizzard
• fog
• stable portal
• unstable portal
• “meta settings” EU adv prog fog capitals bb leaderboard

Not necessarily every permutation of those - but separate and independent leaderboards which only calculate if your game matches the toggles.

[errant rune]

I think there’s over 30 million combinations.

A leaderboard you could filter would be nice

E.g. “How high am I on the Classic + zombies FFA leaderboard, if I set the filter for all other settings to ‘any’?”

[covert maple]

There are ~35 million different ffa settings if you only play with your own class.