Originally Posted by
FistofLife
Your standard of good player is different from a real good players view. A white belt thinks almost every one is really good at the game. I can see that you are fairly bad at the game, besides maybe Wushu. I can say the same with Cowmeat with his exception being TK.
The reason for there being so few good players is that just playing toribash doesn't make you a good player. THE PLAYER has to force them self to face better players always and to look for the hardest duels.
If a real matchmaking system was in place then the player skill would increase greatly as people are always being challenged.
This is exactly what this system does here without using matchmaking!
You start out by getting a good rank by specializing at one/two mods if you want to. Then in day 20, you're force to be good in all striking mods! In day 30, you're forced to be good in all mods to get the best rank!
Originally Posted by
DrHax
While I don't truly agree with his assessment of other players skill 1 to 1, but he's absolutely right. I finally started listening to this methodology instead of noob farming and I can safely say I've learned more in my last 750 games then in the prior 7,000 games of my 44k gaming career.
People not playing a part in the very small competetive number environment just hear of people who they think are awesome, when they have zero clue of how poorly they would do when winning is all that matters. I'm not talking about running away either, just the mere mentality of playing to win when there are stakes is such a different game and meta than most people understand.
But anyone can get involved if they are interested!
No, he's not right. 90% of duelers fight in aikidobd. Rarely did I ever get asked to play in a striking mod. I'm not denying that there are people who do it, but it is not as rosy as you think. It's not forcing you to specialize in all mods.
Of-course, the meta is different when you have 100k on the line. Some people don't like to waste their hard-earned TC to just learn how to be the best. It shouldn't ever be the case. The competitive scene shouldn't depend on the presence of stakes. Never!