Ranked by 𝙹.𝚆. 𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑

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[surreal hemlock]

Well, this is an interesting result so far.

[opaque bear]

I think anytime you are limiting what settings you can play, it’s not an improvement to the system. The current problem with the ranking system is that you can’t just play anything. The only viable way is EU Adv Prog Caps. All this would be doing is adding a couple more meaningless leaderboards and further cementing that you can only play a couple settings in ranked

[pale pier]

Rank is only meaningful if one compares like items.  If there is support for it, I would be open to an additional leaderboard for EU Adv Prog Caps.

Sadly, there are not enough votes in the Discord Risk-Ideas channel to make the results anywhere close to representative.  It is generally the same handful of individuals that vote on everything.  To capture the real sentiment of the player base, there would likely need to be an in-game link for voting on promising ideas.

[toxic belfry]

I’d say that the votes against were because of your list of leaderboards being so limited BUT that wasn’t even part of the statement up for vote.

I’d be curious if the votes against would be against simply adding the four leader boards you suggest in addition to the existing “general” ffa and 1v1 leaderboards (as they exist now).

For example: You choose ffa and the default option is the current ffa leaderboard, but either there is the option to choose one of the other leaderboards and it sets up the requirements of the game for you or simply any games played matching the parameters of the leader board are counted towards advancement on it.

If we could separate rank and leaderboard seasonal position on leaderboards that would be a major advancement since resetting rank as a means to resetting leaderboards has (in my opinion) always been a nonsense solution. Rank should only move because of lose or win in games (maybe some gradual erosion with time is appropriate…that’s debatable). The current large resets to base of rank just so the leaderboard race is interesting each season would be a fatal strike against this ranking system if it wasn’t already so broken.

There is no reason why performance since the beginning of the season couldn’t be the only metric determining position on the seasonal leaderboards while rank could be an entirely different evaluation based on performances across all games ever played.

The fact that SMG didn’t handle it that way from the start is either lazy planning or lazy programming. If they have built the database infrastructure to actually handle all the data then it can be processed in any way ideally the best way. There could be seasonal and all time leaderboards. There could be access to that raw data so other new kinds of player based ranking systems or record books could easily be made.