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Originally Posted by DrHax View Post
People can still choose to specialize in few mods and be held accountable for all of them. If you're above average in 2/3rds of the mods, your ELO will reflect that as 2/3rds of the time you will get matched in a mod you're quite strong in. What we want is the removal of one trick ponies being revered as the best player in Toribash.

You mentioned LoL matchmaking- Faker is considered to be one of if not the best league player of all time. He maintained #1 in rating in South Korea for as long as he gave a crap about it. Faker plays mid lane, but he's known in queue to play literally any role (jungler, adc, support, top) at the highest level of solo queue play.

I don't see the point I giving someone the option at being terrible at any facet of Toribash and holding a highly praised position in the ranking system. If you want to rely on your amazing ability in 3 mods to overcome your weaknesses in 5 other mods, that's totally cool and I get that. But if you let them just remove the other mods from what they have to play, you make it that much harder to actually prove who's the best overall. And cause more arguments. So much QQ so little pewpew.

I just think the benefits don't outweigh the cons of banning mods. If you could even ban one, most would ban say TK to get super high rank and never play you for it. Or lenshu3ng to be rank 1 and never play... Well the entire Russian community lol

Yeah I don't think either of the viewpoints is wrong/right per say. Its just a difference in approach to the rankings. If you want to prioritize the absolute all-around skill then yeah, having to play all of the mods is something u want.

I just prefer some specialization when it comes to these things. I guess its just a matter of preference. I like to think in the terms of mods: "who is the best at x mod/category of mods?" Some people have a different approach to it.

"I don't see the point I giving someone the option at being terrible at any facet of Toribash and holding a highly praised position in the ranking system."

Well I still think excellence in one area should be praised. If Killer3366 was shit at every other mod than lenshu I would still think highly of him


EDIT: Yeah the player pool might cause some issues with this, its just something Id like to see. Of course practicality > preference in the end
Last edited by cowmeat; Aug 13, 2015 at 01:19 PM.
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