This thread's purpose is to gather more thoughts on Matchmaking and how it should work.


Toribash development team is currently focused on making the Matchmaking system work as you would expect a proper matchmaking to, and we would like to make sure our current plans fit community's desires and views on it. Any thoughts and new ideas are welcome and will be considered.


What is currently planned to be implemented:

• Ranked - a "first to 3" duel
  • No mod choice - players get to fight in randomly selected mods (mod changes each fight).
    Draft mod list: aikidobigdojo.tbm, taekkyon.tbm, lenshu3ng.tbm (or rk-mma.tbm), judofrac.tbm
  • Brown belt restriction
  • Seasonal rank resets (3 months for season length)
  • No daily rank 1 reward. Instead, weekly rewards for top n players or one-time reward at the end of the season.
  • Matchmaking being the only way to rank up.
  
  
• Unranked - a "first to 2" duel
  • Pick the mod group to play
  • No belt restriction

We also plan to disable daily rank 1 rewards for now as it has turned into "farm rank without getting caught" fest.
It doesn't mean that everybody with top ranks farmed their way up, but Event Squad members have to deal with rank-related reports on almost a daily basis. We may still reward top players in some way.


EDIT (10/03/2017):

I really like the Ranked points, basically all I had in mind. But I wonder, is unranked really necessary? I can't see people feel a use for it, especially with how easy it is to make a lobby.
Unranked is good for low-qi players that want to use it I guess.

Edit: Just like Kratos said below me, yes. Black belt restriction please. There's a huge gap in skill between brown and black. OR, if possible, match people with relevant qi.

I personally find this a better Idea than the matchmaking and rank 1 rewards we got now

Rank 1 players get random item, or maybe end of month 1st rank prize. Just hold the daily prize that were being used and wait till the end of month and award to the rank 1 player.

I really like the idea of this ranking system.
I also feel like there could be few ranked ladders: x belt to y, y belt to a belt and so on. Might be too much of a stretch as I'm not sure about development complexity, but I feel like this would give a fair chance for players of all capabilities to compete and win prizes in their own category. Prizes should scale accordingly with ladder so it should demotivate people from making alts and abusing the system to some extent.

instead of having a number ranking system why not have a group ranking system?


kinda like how belts are rn, but with the matchmaking system?

me likey but two questions.

How will the automated tourney's work? Will it work like always where you only need a rank for the 5k or would for example the 500tc tourney's not need a rank but the 1k ones with the unranked ranks and 5k with ranked or am I completely wrong. And I'm also assuming you're taking the matchmaking out of those tourney's correct?

Sorry, but I can't see the random mods working out. There should be some sort of selection.

It's ok to have a belt restriction, but matching people based on qi would't work. You could add something like rank groups (most competitive games do stuff like this, lol, smite, csgo, etc) to match people with oponents with similar skills. Belt/qi doesn't really matter...
Having a weekly reward seems better than one reward per season. It will also force players to be more active.


Top ten would be nice.

Unranked matchmaking should be added as well. Maybe people don't want it now, but after ranked matchmaking is realesed, some might want to have a similar, more casual experience.


That seems a bit too much, but ok. Also there could be something for the player with the best overall rank at the end of the season.

One last thing:

There could be diferent categories for ranked matches, like sambo, grappling, etc. So the mods in the category are somewhat similar. Idk

Maybe a list of players who are match making or a comoletly seperate tab for match making