Originally Posted by
Numbers
I was talking to Saintowar earlier about this. The both of us thought it would be a really great idea to have a 1v1 matchmaking system. It could be on the main menu, and it would matchmake you with someone of similar elo where the both of you would play a best of five or so. It's basically dueling without the money at stake. This would give people an incentive to improve their play as well with this being a good way to have a ladder based on elo, so essentially people would get better as their elo improves while climbing said ladder. It would be great to have this per official mods (I would say one of the variants of TK, Wushu, Aikido, KB, Lenshu, Judo, and so on). One's overall global rating would be based on the average of one's elo in the 6 or so official mods.
I feel as if we run into a lot of problems with that.
The more "official" a specific game becomes, the more the game isn't about being fun. Which means there's even greater pressure to:
-Do rush pre-made moves in wushu
-Shovel in aikido
-Run in any applicable mod
-Disconnect/rage quit when losing
etc. etc.
Also, matchmaking systems don't really work anyways because unlike say a PVP arena, there's equally made alts. That is to say: farming could be arranged much easier in that system.