Stats reset under consideration

Jump back to quoted post11 Apr 2014, 17:35 PMNapalm

I could see a couple:

- Reset the unfair advantage beta testers have been given. By participating in the beta they get early insight into game changing mechanics and can adapt sooner.

- Flush out inactive players.

- Give folks who have just picked up a game a chance at making it into the ladders.

- Remove historic losses that occurred during the "whoops, lol, balance" cycles.

Frankly, I like to hear one down side of resetting stats.

Jump back to quoted post11 Apr 2014, 17:42 PMIpKaiFung

How does that work exactly? By clearing the stats after a new patch has dropped wouldn't beta testers theoretically be owning the ladders until everyone catches up?

Jump back to quoted post11 Apr 2014, 17:20 PMAmiPolizeiFunk

When Relic is considering messing with all of this, I hope they also consider showing something in the load-in screen. This "we're all equal, we don't want pussies to quit early" shit has gotta go. Show us some meaningful ranks somewhere, anywhere, please.

Jump back to quoted post11 Apr 2014, 19:42 PMwooof

the whole point of ladders and stats is to track the players. like sluzbenik said, if everyones ratings are reset, the automatch games will be even more imbalanced than they are now. you could have top 10 players matched up with people who have never played before. it takes time for the ratings to actually represent a players skill.

Jump back to quoted post11 Apr 2014, 19:45 PMFestiveLongJohns

Whole heartedly agree, Show us something of significance. Not just our "experience" level.

Jump back to quoted post11 Apr 2014, 19:49 PMNapalm

Perhaps having an "Overall" rankings that represents all the seasons would be a good fit?

I wonder how other competitive titles handle this. Anybody know about Starcraft 2?

Jump back to quoted post11 Apr 2014, 20:05 PMInverse

They might reset visible stats, but they're never going to reset your hidden rating. That would just be silly. The more games you've played, the more accurate your rating is likely to be. Throwing that away every few months doesn't make sense.

Jump back to quoted post11 Apr 2014, 19:53 PMSeb

LoL : new season + stats reset every year (keep history of previous seasons) + rewards (including various current "badges" showing last season record), hidden MMR only half reset with new season + new placement matches (prevents fucking up match-making).

They try to do big/core changes between 2 seasons. They do have balance changes all the time though, but biggest tournaments are always couple weeks late with balance to give pros time to adapt.

Jump back to quoted post11 Apr 2014, 19:42 PMwooof

decay will already do this for the high ranks.

everyone has gone through these cycles, so that seems pretty fair.

the whole point of ladders and stats is to track the players. like sluzbenik said, if everyones ratings are reset, the automatch games will be even more imbalanced than they are now. you could have top 10 players matched up with people who have never played before. it takes time for the ratings to actually represent a players skill.

Jump back to quoted post11 Apr 2014, 21:01 PMBasilone

I went like ~5 months without playing Ostheer in 1v1, only dropped to position 400 or so which isn't a relatively small decay for being inactive that long.



Since most people improve over time, they like stats to reflect how they've been playing recently and not every game they ever played. If there was also an all time stats page that would be fine, but there should be something that shows current performance and not how many times you got roflstomped by SU85 or Tiger Ace way back in the day. Pro sports leagues do the same thing, we aren't exactly trying to reinvent the wheel.



Like Ami and Inverse said you could keep the ELO points in to a next season. In SC2 you only do placement matches for your first season, then next season it just drops you in the same league you were in before afaik.