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I liked the vCoh ladder very much and I could not imagine to have played this game over several years without it beeing part of the game.

I get that the very top players did not think of the ladderposition of an accurate skill indicator.

But at my level of play somewhere between level 12 and 15 it was indeed very accurate

There might have been the chance for a level 16 player to simply spam many games to get a position at the very top of the leaderboard. But a "level 14" player could play as many games as he liked be it 10 or a 1000 and still be at the same position that reflected his skill (that is if he did not cheat of course).

I was never very keen on my own stats while I played vcoh for over 5 years. I almoust never changed my profile to get clean records, I almoust never played a game that gave me a shitty map or a rude opponent just to improve my ranking. But still having an indicator of my skill in the game compared to others is a huge part of the motivation that I got for the game.

And not only that, also important is for me to know which skill my opponent has. I want to know in a beginning of the game if I am facing someone above or below my own level of play. Smurfing ruined that so some degree within vcoh, but most of the time the rank that was displayed at the beginning of the game gave me a good idea of what you where to expect from the enemy. After the game you could check his stats and conclude what your victory or defeat had ment.

I still remember the couple of times where I was able to get a victory over some players at the very top of the ladder. I even recall the basic strategies involved even as those games happend 2-3 years ago. If there was no ladder it would not have been anything special at all.

Conclousion - it is very sad to see that coh2 failes to deliver a basic and very necessary tool for players like me - semi competitive players without any interest in single player content.