Huge drop in number of high ranked players playing games

[bob21218]

Wouldn't it be easy to exploit decay? You could still log on once per decay interval and prevent the decay from affecting you. This would result in holding on to a "cheated" rating for quite a while.

Depends on the implementation of decay. If it required N complete games per time period to prevent decay, one would be faced with the possibility of losing one or more of those games, presumably against lower-rated players. Rating points lost that way might be more than the automatic loss for not playing.

[Calmdown]

Wouldn't it be easy to exploit decay? You could still log on once per decay interval and prevent the decay from affecting you. This would result in holding on to a "cheated" rating for quite a while.

You have to play a game to prevent decay, which means you are risking your points. That's all that's needed.

[Phoenix81]

Now I really need rating decay. About 20 matches today, I got matching only with 380-420 rating opponents. Lost twice due to Zaladar mind control bug and one match of my stupidly play. But that's not my point. No high rating opponents means I will never get any rating up. And it seems that only few players in top 20 is still playing. I really like this game and I will still playing which means I might get off the chart soon.

Btw, wondering how Dash2Death got his/her rating up 4 points without a high rank player playing. That's miracle. Around 40 winning in a row. If not cheating, he's a god.

[Hunter]

This was to be expected really.

Since the fix, and people not being able to quit anymore, the number of players of reasonable rank playing has dropped off incredibly sharply. Whereas before it was a struggle to find people of 400+ rank to play and especially people of 450+, now it seems that there simply aren't people of this rank playing much at all and even the number of 350-400s has dropped off sharply.

I'm now chaining games against people ranked very low 300s, and in some cases high 200s, meaning that again the syndrome of not being able to level due to earning fractions of a point for a win is around. I havent lost against one of these yet but the simple fact is that decent players do exist at lower levels and both luck and first turn can occasionally beat you in SE and losing to players of this level is going to drag you down 20 games' worth of rating.

The only solution to this? Stats Wipe. 450-550 players are not going to play in order to keep their precious ranking (a ranking which would be nigh impossible under non-exploitable circumstances) which leaves the whole system broken.

Wipe stats and fix it!


*disclaimer: this is not backed up by hard stats, just lots of observation, game refreshing, and looking at the rnak of games being played.

Back to the topic ^^

I've been watching the challenge board since the game got released on the iPhone. There were 2-6 players (400+ rated) playing at any given time when Kyle changed the board to show 30 games going on. Now is see 0-3 at any given time during the day.

Stat wipe to 400 for 400+ rated players is the best idea IMO.

[arebelspy]

Btw, wondering how Dash2Death got his/her rating up 4 points without a high rank player playing. That's miracle. Around 40 winning in a row. If not cheating, he's a god.

His ranking continues to climb. He also always seems to play the same opponents. Could be coincidence. Curious about the IP log for his games.

[arebelspy]

Back to the topic ^^

I've been watching the challenge board since the game got released on the iPhone. There were 2-6 players (400+ rated) playing at any given time when Kyle changed the board to show 30 games going on. Now is see 0-3 at any given time during the day.

Stat wipe to 400 for 400+ rated players is the best idea IMO.

I've played a TON less since 1.24, for a few reasons:
1) 95% of my games were on the ipad. Now it just crashes on my ipad (ios 3.x). So I have to play in the browser, which I rarely do. I'm hoping it will be fixed in 1.25
2) Lots of random defeats caused me to quickly lose lots of games and ratings for no reason. That's no fun. I'm hoping they'll be fixed in 1.25

I am still playing (played a few games last night), but nowhere near the volume, partly because of #2, but mostly because of #1. I just don't use my computer much.

[N3rd4Christ]

I can say that i have played more since the update than before. Im having a blast testing out decks and losing rating. Lost 40 Pts so far but it has been the most fun ive had since i started playing this game.

[Hunter]

I can say that i have played more since the update than before. Im having a blast testing out decks and losing rating. Lost 40 Pts so far but it has been the most fun ive had since i started playing this game.

I've been watching you play today ^^

I lol'd at the game where you were playing with Elementalis and the kid playing Boris had like 8 allies on the board and for some reason thought Armor of Ages was a waste of time to attack : P

[N3rd4Christ]

I've been watching you play today ^^

I lol'd at the game where you were playing with Elementalis and the kid playing Boris had like 8 allies on the board and for some reason thought Armor of Ages was a waste of time to attack : P

I know lol i laughed, i figured i had lost when i passed. Armor had 4 Durability, he had 8 allies, and i had 11 health, he could have dealth 12 damage with 3 of his 4/2 allies. I was like HUH? passed?

[N3rd4Christ]

I know lol i laughed, i figured i had lost when i passed. Armor had 4 Durability, he had 8 allies, and i had 11 health, he could have dealth 12 damage with 3 of his 4/2 allies. I was like HUH? passed?

Finally got deck to 30 cards and im liking it, 29 + hero might do 31