This thread's purpose is to gather more thoughts on Matchmaking and how it should work.
Toribash development team is currently focused on making the Matchmaking system work as you would expect a proper matchmaking to, and we would like to make sure our current plans fit community's desires and views on it. Any thoughts and new ideas are welcome and will be considered.
What is currently planned to be implemented:
Ranked - a "first to 3" duel
No mod choice - players get to fight in randomly selected mods (mod changes each fight). Draft mod list: aikidobigdojo.tbm, taekkyon.tbm, lenshu3ng.tbm (or rk-mma.tbm), judofrac.tbm
Brown belt restriction
Seasonal rank resets (3 months for season length)
No daily rank 1 reward. Instead, weekly rewards for top n players or one-time reward at the end of the season.
Matchmaking being the only way to rank up.
Unranked - a "first to 2" duel
Pick the mod group to play
No belt restriction
We also plan to disable daily rank 1 rewards for now as it has turned into "farm rank without getting caught" fest.
It doesn't mean that everybody with top ranks farmed their way up, but Event Squad members have to deal with rank-related reports on almost a daily basis. We may still reward top players in some way.
EDIT (10/03/2017):
Originally Posted by sir
Matchmaking mods have been changed, mod list now consists of "classic" mods.
I don't think there should be 3 month resets. Every 1 month is fine.
One month reset almost literally means that the player who plays the most gets rank #1 (or at least top ranks). We have seen this quite a few times now. Rankings take some time to even out and reflect skill.
Three month season balances the amount of games played better.
Activity should be an important factor when it comes to rankings, but no the main one.
Can it be made that matchmaking is defaulted to ranked mode?
Out of 15 match making searches I have only done 1 ranked mode. I asked my opponents why, and they said they didn't realized you have to switch the option...
One person chooses one mod, other person chooses another mod and the third mod is random, also add boxshu
EDIT#1
Just make a poll of all the mods hosted currently and make the top-6 the mod pool
I think the main issue with matchmaking is that not enough players use it, even tho it would be so easy to make more players notice and click on it. I've told you how at least twice