Well if my recommendation to bring back matchmaking goes through, You'll have to wait at most 10 seconds to find a person with a similar rank as you to 1v1. Starts at last post on page 6.
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I just think that it could reset every 2 or 3 months instead of every single one. Due to the large playerbase, resetting every single month would bring people a lot of frustation about not having enough time to climb up since there are people who cant play 24/7. Other than that, it's a great addition and it shall add a lot more of competitivity to the game. Great job.

first month will be pretty much a test run, together with the system, rooms are going to be set up, some stuff is still under the work. I think that it won't be sooner than 2 month until it takes any definite shape.
We don't know how fast people will be gaining elo and what amounts they are going to reach, it's not clear either how crowded the rooms are going to be.
Things will be adjusted as we go with it.

Two things (I typed a long thing and the page refreshed idk, lost it all so here I go again)

• Is adding badges for each tier, as bronze/silver/gold/grand master or anything a plan for the future? If yes, my idea would be to remove the motto thing under the post and display a colored star (or a little medal/anything you'd like) (according to the player's tier (bronze/silver etc)) and a number inside that represents on which season he got such rank in. (In roman numerals would look cooler I think)
Meanwhile in the public profile page we could have a tab listing all the ranks he got in all seasons, to avoid logging to much information we could try adding something as placement matches, or an "unranked" tier as base.

Edit: Other idea would be to have borders around the avatar instead of the badges, this would save some space and avoid the removal of the motto system, but I think it would be a bit harder to automate.

I don't even know if this is a viable option, but would be a cool feature to have.

• And, I suggest having minor tourneys for each's mod top 10. (since the mods rank will be reseted too)
one small event for top 10 ranks in wushu
one for top 10 ranks in aikido

and of course a bigger one for top X global ranks.

about this one I don't know how much it would affect the economy either.


Looking mostly towards the badges thing.

I like the idea but wouldn't mainly getting your rank from tournaments and how tournaments have belt restrictions cause some inaccuracy in rank?

Well they'll get matchmade with someone that is much better than them until they are back down to the rank that they deserve. Also the ranked tournaments and ranked public servers will only reward half the elo (+1 per win) for winning against someone with a lower elo than them and if you lose then you'll lose the normal elo (-2 per loss). This will deter higher players from going in the ranked tourneys. Instead they will use the matchmaking where they will be matched with players of similar rank.

I dont know why but I somehow dont like it, I guess its because I dont like changes in general.

Agreed
3 months sounds best
4 yearly events for the best of the best ( at ranking not the game )

Yeah, this sounds better than monthly. Gives everyone a chance.

Ye now we can play fun mods freely