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[Blood78]

PGI -
It is time to put in ladder system. With influx of new players, no weight limit, and no cut off for range of elo, many of games are being one sided.

Now before you pull aggregate data and say most match are fairly even. Do a more granular search and see how matchs are playing out for players with higher elo and who have been playing for a while that their elo number is steady.

You should see that folks in higher elo are being tossed into groups grouped with much lower elo, basically newbies in hope that higher + lower can make the game match even against group of similar elo (mid level). Well team without much range in elo (mid level team) will win often vs. team of buncha newbies plus few elo players.

I know what else you may say which is that once these newbies sink some game in, their elo rating will be better adjusted and matchmaking will get better, etc.

Reality is, that makes game really crappy experience for many folks because I'd guess majority of folks who have been around since early stages of this game are being tossed into mix with newbies and lose a lot of matchs. Its not fun.

At the same time, newbies complain that they are getting their butts handed to them and getting totally destroyed from getgo over and over till game gets bit better by matching you against other newbise...isn't fun either.

Better way to handle this is to introduce ladder system. Put in a range in elo search and create ladders. So that experienced players play against experienced players and newbies play against newbies.

(Totally making up numbers to show as example)
Ladder 1: 1-500
Ladder 2: 501-1000
Ladder 3: 1001-1500

You don't even have to make this ladder public in case people start whining why am I not in higher tier ladder since many people, probably including myself think I am better than I actually am.

Anyhow, this cutoff would make game lot more balanced in matchs now and in the future when there are influx of lot of people. Check social media, check your metrics, you see lot of new players and MWO cannot handle that properly while maintaining good matchmaking experience.

[Blood78]

Please implement ladder, I know this was discussed and it is on you radar. Not high but would be great if it can be bumped up.

[HUBA]

Yes even a simple ladder system with the old matchmaking would help a lot. Simply split the player by elo in 3 groups so it has 20% newbie and noobs, 60% normal and 20% elite and nolife player. If enough player out there it could be more groups or different percentages