Originally Posted by
Dare
Almost everyone wants the old ranking system back. Why don't you guys change it back already?
Old ranking system made the game fun. New one doesn't. Old one brought a challege to people. New one doesnt. New system "recommends us to farm" to get the tc prize. Old system does have farming, but it isn't lIke crazy and hectic as new system. Old system doesnt hand out tc and destroy economy. New system hands out tc and it destroys economy. Old system doesn't reset your hard work. New system resets every month, so your playing for nothing unless your 1st. Old system clearly displays the skills of players since good people usually have high elo while bad players have low elo. New system shows us random skill at random ranks. Old system brought more people to the game. New system kicked some old cool peeps out of the game. Old system is more liked. New system is not.
And yet, we are talking about how to sink tc. When the game is adding a ton every month.
Then why isn't the old system brought back?
Are you really trying to say that the old system had less farming? You are completely miremembering. Everyone in the top 10 farmed their way there - most of them illegally rather than noob-bashing. I'm also surprised you think the old system
in any way displays skill more than the new one. In the old system you could play 1000 matches against a whitebelt in torisex.tbm or some other asymmetric mod in a private server with maxclients 2 and get to the top that way. At least now you can only do it in certain mods in certain servers where all other players can see who you're ranking up against.
Honestly, most of this statement is completely garbage Dare. You either made it up or have false memories. I do agree, however, that the tc prize for rank 1 is and always was a dumb decision.
If we want any chance of toribash attracting (and keeping) more players in the future, a way to keep them there is to have a ranking system that actually means something and can give players something to realistically aim for without cheating, as opposed to a farming competition which gets boring for everyone very quickly. An accurate ranking system would really help improve toribash's longevity, but hilariously the game's developer and owner is the person preventing this from happening.
(Also worth noting that without a much larger userbase, it will always be difficult for a matchmaking system to work properly. However in a game like this, matchmaking is the only way to have global ranks that mean anything whatsoever)
Last edited by Moop; Jan 8, 2017 at 11:51 AM.