Good day all!
I havent play on the TG ladder for a while. The TG ladder was a big mesh. There were many issues on the ladder. Are they still present on the ladder? Did things improve?
Just to list a few issues:
I havent play on the TG ladder for a while. The TG ladder was a big mesh. There were many issues on the ladder. Are they still present on the ladder? Did things improve?
Just to list a few issues:
- Ratings are meaningless. Ratings are meant to compare the skill of a player. The 1v1 ladder doesnt a decent job in this. If the rating of player A is larger then the rating of player B, then it is more likely that player A is the better player. In my experience with TGs this isnt really true for TGs. You can have two parties with all players around the same elo, but some players (and sometimes even one party) is much stronger then others. As result games were pretty much one sided. They are decided by which team had the most underrated players. So TGs always end up with a swipe instead of back and fourth battles.
- Smurfing was also a real issue. Higher rated players were making second accounts to get more easy opponents and to boost the main accounts. As result not all players of one party are around the same rating. This also results in a terrible experience and even promote to also make your own smurf account, to not kept being whiped by such smurf premade team. Smurfing also happened on the 1v1 ladder, but it happens much less frequently in my experience.
- People tend to quit a lot in the early game. So you get into a party and one player just quits and you have to join the queue again. Or they just crash there game after the 1 min. count down. As result you had to spend a long time waiting in the game instead of playing the game. This was another reason why i didnt really enjoy playing TGs. You really had to queue over and over again.