20 replies to this topic

[nehebkau]

Can I get my ELO reset to zero please....I am tired of 'carry harder'.

[Rear Admiral Tier 6]

just wait when the turney is over,it will get better

[Alienized]

i highly doubt that.
really.
a ELO reset would be awesome tho.... my mechs are not meant to carry..... yet i have to do it =/

[101011]

An elo reset would be hell for those in lower elo levels. Can you imagine the bottom bucket being mixed with the upper bucket?

[nehebkau]

Randomness is a good thing....better than ELO IMHO.


Specially in the solo queue

Edited by nehebkau, 25 October 2014 - 10:45 AM.

[MadPanda]

101011, on 25 October 2014 - 10:34 AM, said:

An elo reset would be hell for those in lower elo levels. Can you imagine the bottom bucket being mixed with the upper bucket?

I don't have to imagine it. I just queue into a game and see it happen.

[nehebkau]

Tourney weekends show you how poor ELO, in its current form, is for match making.

[101011]

MadPanda, on 25 October 2014 - 12:06 PM, said:

I don't have to imagine it. I just queue into a game and see it happen.

Wait, so you can see people's elo levels?

[MadPanda]

101011, on 25 October 2014 - 12:35 PM, said:

Wait, so you can see people's elo levels?

Yep. The direwhale that did 28 dmg before dying = low elo. That stormcrow that had match score 134 = high elo.

[loopala]

Easy to lower elo. Just lose a lot. :-))

I was creeping up in the light bracket. Then I decided to buy locusts I have 3 through basic and 1 elited, but my elo has slipped enough were my locusts are feared. LOL I have stopped seeing names I recognize.

[nehebkau]

loopala, on 26 October 2014 - 07:15 AM, said:

Easy to lower elo. Just lose a lot. :-))

I was creeping up in the light bracket. Then I decided to buy locusts I have 3 through basic and 1 elited, but my elo has slipped enough were my locusts are feared. LOL I have stopped seeing names I recognize.

sweet... 8 flamer, 6 MG direwolf inc.. i'm really doing it...

Ok, I did it, and you know what, we won..... wtf.

Ya know, flamers really shouldn't generate heat on the mech that is firing them, they are such a crappy weapon to start with, that putting heat on them makes them worse on you than the enemy. .... what was pgi thinking?

Edited by nehebkau, 26 October 2014 - 09:07 AM.

[Glythe]

101011, on 25 October 2014 - 10:34 AM, said:

An elo reset would be hell for those in lower elo levels. Can you imagine the bottom bucket being mixed with the upper bucket?

An elo non-reset would be hell for the top bracket. Can you imagine the top bucket having to carry every single game if they want a prayer of winning?

Really what we should have is a no Elo queue. And then when there is a tournament you opt in and go to that queue.

Edited by Glythe, 26 October 2014 - 10:35 AM.

[Kanatta Jing]

ELO decays over time. Meaning it slowly resets to 0 after about a month of inactivity.

Maybe you could switch to your unused weight class for a few weeks and let your favoured weight class drop in ELO?

[Adiuvo]

Kanatta Jing, on 26 October 2014 - 10:42 AM, said:

ELO decays over time. Meaning it slowly resets to 0 after about a month of inactivity.

Maybe you could switch to your unused weight class for a few weeks and let your favoured weight class drop in ELO?

There is no Elo decay.

[Glythe]

Kanatta Jing, on 26 October 2014 - 10:42 AM, said:

ELO decays over time. Meaning it slowly resets to 0 after about a month of inactivity.

Maybe you could switch to your unused weight class for a few weeks and let your favoured weight class drop in ELO?

Where did you read Elo decays to 0 after a month of inactivity? I really don't think that's correct.

[Kanatta Jing]

Glythe, on 26 October 2014 - 10:48 AM, said:

Where did you read Elo decays to 0 after a month of inactivity? I really don't think that's correct.

Like most of the fine details of the game it is absorbed from blog posts and forum pages that I read over a year ago. While I am certain this is the case it may not be so.

Also not actual zero but 2300 or the effective 0 of ELO.

[Glythe]

I've quit this game for up to 6 months at a time or longer and I can assure you I still see a lot of high ranked players. The mechs I own for the most part are not as competitive as they used to be so I'm not ranked as high as I was before but you get the idea.

[Veranova]

Kanatta Jing, on 26 October 2014 - 10:56 AM, said:

Like most of the fine details of the game it is absorbed from blog posts and forum pages that I read over a year ago. While I am certain this is the case it may not be so.

Also not actual zero but 2300 or the effective 0 of ELO.

2300 is a particularly high ELO in this game.

Newbies are started out at 1500, which is around the middle of the bell curb, possibly slightly to the left.

PGI has tweaked the math a bit to work better for MWO, it's described somewhere in the depths of this forum, probably by Karl Berg. It was once mentioned on NGNG by Bryan that ELO even takes into account our weapons accuracy & damage stats, although I couldn't cite the exact episode.

Edited by Veranova, 26 October 2014 - 05:06 PM.

[MischiefSC]

Elo doesn't really have a "0". Reset would be to 1000 or 1200 or so. These sorts of threads crack me up. It's just people saying "I don't want to play in or around my skill level, I just wanna farm nubs and feel like a BA in a troll build".

This is why we need pve. So people can go stomp bots and goof around. Saying you want to drop your Elo so you can play against less challenging opponents isn't going to fly in PvP.

[nehebkau]

Why did this get moved here, I posted it in the barracks to start...its not a serious topic...is it?