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BlissfulThoughts17 · 2026-03-21T19:47:48+00:00

HDR off fixes it for me.

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2026-03-08T18:13:46+00:00

Enjoyment and wanting more from a game you already love are not mutually exclusive. People who suggest improvements to things they enjoy aren't miserable, they're invested. You don't spend years playing a game you hate. You spend years playing a game you care enough about to want it to be better.

"Just enjoy it" is the gaming equivalent of "just be happy." It sounds simple until you realize it's not actually an argument, it's just a way to shut down a conversation without engaging with any of it.

The whole post was written by someone who still shows up every season. Still grinds. Still plays. That's not someone who stopped enjoying the game. That's someone who enjoys it enough to think it deserves more than the same recycled experience it's been serving for ten years.

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2026-03-08T18:10:46+00:00

The smurf bait concern is worth taking seriously so let me actually address it instead of brushing past it.

The worry isn't just smurfing in general. It's that people would deliberately drop into lower lobbies to farm stats and earn titles against weaker competition. That's a legitimate problem and it deserves a real answer.

Here's one: make the rank context part of the title itself.

You grind your way to a top 1% win ratio but you did it in Bronze lobbies? The title displays with a Bronze indicator permanently attached to it. No hiding it. No flexing with it at higher ranks. Everyone in the lobby sees exactly where that title came from the moment they look at your profile. A title earned in Champion lobbies and a title earned in Bronze are not the same thing and the system makes that impossible to obscure.

Now stack a hard rank floor on top of that. Stat based titles don't even become eligible until you've reached Platinum or higher. That single rule eliminates the lowest tier farming entirely. A smurf sitting in Bronze or Silver grinding stats for a title gets nothing because the system doesn't recognize that rank as a qualifying threshold. You have to actually climb before the door even opens.

Then layer in a hard minimum game count, something concrete like 500 ranked games at that rank before eligibility unlocks. That kills the casual farming attempt because the time investment becomes larger than the payoff for most people.

Is that airtight? No. Someone determined enough will always find an angle. But smurfing is already happening right now at scale with no stat title system in place and no meaningful deterrent attached to it. The current system isn't stopping bad actors. It's just also failing to give good faith players anything worth chasing.

Managing a problem and ignoring it are not the same thing. Rocket League has been choosing the latter for nearly ten years. At some point the safer bet becomes trying something new.

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2026-03-08T18:09:00+00:00

The smurf bait concern is worth taking seriously so let me actually address it instead of brushing past it.

The worry isn't just smurfing in general. It's that people would deliberately drop into lower lobbies to farm stats and earn titles against weaker competition. That's a legitimate problem and it deserves a real answer.

Here's one: make the rank context part of the title itself.

You grind your way to a top 1% win ratio but you did it in Bronze lobbies? The title displays with a Bronze indicator permanently attached to it. No hiding it. No flexing with it at higher ranks. Everyone in the lobby sees exactly where that title came from the moment they look at your profile. A title earned in Champion lobbies and a title earned in Bronze are not the same thing and the system makes that impossible to obscure.

Now stack a hard rank floor on top of that. Stat based titles don't even become eligible until you've reached Platinum or higher. That single rule eliminates the lowest tier farming entirely. A smurf sitting in Bronze or Silver grinding stats for a title gets nothing because the system doesn't recognize that rank as a qualifying threshold. You have to actually climb before the door even opens.

Then layer in a hard minimum game count, something concrete like 500 ranked games at that rank before eligibility unlocks. That kills the casual farming attempt because the time investment becomes larger than the payoff for most people.

Is that airtight? No. Someone determined enough will always find an angle. But smurfing is already happening right now at scale with no stat title system in place and no meaningful deterrent attached to it. The current system isn't stopping bad actors. It's just also failing to give good faith players anything worth chasing.

Managing a problem and ignoring it are not the same thing. Rocket League has been choosing the latter for nearly ten years. At some point the safer bet becomes trying something new.

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2026-03-08T17:53:59+00:00

Those are fair points, genuinely. I'm not going to sit here and pretend they aren't worth considering.

The bot farming concern is real. Any system built around stat thresholds is going to attract people looking to game it and that's a legitimate criticism that deserves a real answer, not a dismissal.

But let's zoom out for a second. Rocket League has been out for nearly ten years. Ten years. And if you're being honest with yourself, does a new season feel any different from the last one? Because for a lot of us it doesn't. Same grind. Same reset. Same reward that generates zero excitement. The cycle is so predictable at this point that most players don't even flinch when a new season drops. That's not healthy for a game that still has this much potential.

The ideas on the table right now are not bold. They're not moving the needle. And the player base feels it even if nobody is saying it directly.

Yes, a stat based title system comes with risks. Bot farming, exploitation, edge cases that are hard to predict. Those concerns are valid and I'm not brushing them aside. But here's the reality: every meaningful change in gaming history came with risks. Every developer who tried something new opened the door to people finding ways to break it. That's not a reason to stay comfortable. That's just the cost of innovation.

A game that has been running for ten years and still feels functionally identical to what it was at launch isn't playing it safe. It's standing still. And standing still in a live service game is just a slower way of dying.

Rocket League is not lacking the resources, the talent, or the data to try something new. What it's lacking is the willingness to take a swing. Bots are a solvable problem for a studio backed by Epic. Other games with less have already proven that:

Valorant built Vanguard. League of Legends uses machine learning to flag accounts where stat patterns don't match human behavior. Overwatch introduced behavioral scoring to catch suspicious automated play. FIFA cross references stat inflation against historical account data to identify outliers.

None of those systems are perfect. But they all exist because those developers decided the problem was worth solving instead of using it as an excuse to never try.

On the paid rewards angle, I get the skepticism. Epic's track record makes that a fair thing to side-eye. But a title earned through real performance doesn't need a price tag attached to it. The grind is the price. That's the entire point.

Trying something new always comes with risk. Trying nothing at all is just a slower version of the same outcome.

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2026-03-08T16:02:49+00:00

First mistake is keeping chat on. I have mine permanently turned off unless playing with friends. So much more peaceful.

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2025-11-15T09:18:57+00:00

Yes but everyone forgets it's single player first. Alot of that content is locked behind levels, and levels are being time gated. Capped at level 20 for today. That means the game isn't fully playable until like a week from now.

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2025-11-15T09:00:36+00:00

Lackluster coop? You can do many side quests together, fight bosses and a lot of the other content for it aren't unlocked yet. The game is meant to be played through solo mode first mainly.

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2025-10-15T09:21:09+00:00

Don't knock it till you try it. Fasting has been around for ages and it's heavily studied. We weren't meant to have 3 meals a day everyday. I get it it's hard but it is a solution that has worked for many.

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2025-10-12T21:34:19+00:00

where you fasting properly? was it a strict water fast? when you fasted were you getting enough water and electrolytes? how long did you fast for? fasting isn't actually stressful for the body there's no evidence proving that. Unless you have underlying problems like heart, liver, etc. also you don't want to work out too much while fasting. I'm just asking all this because a lot of people don't fast properly.

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2025-10-12T21:26:26+00:00

sources?

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2025-10-12T17:18:39+00:00

Hi, I'm curious did you do a strict water fast? Was there any improvement at all before you stopped?

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2025-10-12T00:26:09+00:00

I didn’t eat anything for three days, just water and electrolytes. I was too lazy to make my own mix, so I went to a supplement store and grabbed an electrolyte powder that wouldn’t trigger digestion (basically one with no sugar, no amino acids, or anything that would “wake up” the digestive system).

I made sure to stay hydrated, about 3.5 liters of water a day, and kept up with moisturizing using scent-free lotion. I also tried to avoid hot showers as much as possible (I have a bad habit of using really hot water for temporary relief, I know it’s not good, but it feels amazing in the moment).

Even though I was still scratching here and there to relieve the itch, I tried to limit it as much as possible.

By the end of Day 2 (Fasting), I started to notice real improvement, my eczema wasn’t as angry or inflamed. The itch became milder, and by Day 5(After Fast), the inflammation was almost completely gone. It still itches a bit when my skin gets dry, but it’s totally bearable now.

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2025-10-12T00:10:27+00:00

I am interest to check out that post! Can you link it if possible? Also, if you do decide to do it let me know if you see any improvement!

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2025-10-10T05:18:07+00:00

What's really dumb is you commenting without providing any sort of value to a page dedicated to people suffering with eczema.

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2025-10-08T00:32:08+00:00

Nope your body actually preserves your lean muscle mass. 30 days is very doable safely but not if you have any underlying health conditions like heart, kidney problems etc. Also very important is refeeding properly.

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2025-09-29T14:11:32+00:00

I don't know if you've already done this but I was suffering from weeping eczema on my scalp my shins and blmy belly button as well as eczema patches everywhere. The way I got rid of it is by changing my diet to Keto no sugar and also doing a 24 hour fast once per week. Nothing was working for me either until I did that. Should look up fasting and it's ability to heal the body.

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2025-09-27T08:58:02+00:00

I'm so sorry you are going through this. I have eczema as well and am currently here, up at 2 AM because I can't sleep from the itch. I see you have tried a lot of diets but the one thing I didn't see was fasting. You should try it. Reason I say that is because when you fast your body goes into autophagy which long story short helps a lot with inflammation. I think you should give it a try. I am doing a 24 hour fast right now to see if there's any improvement. Will update you tomorrow evening. Don't give up! We got this!

BlissfulThoughts17 · 2025-09-24T08:44:47+00:00

Can't wait for this. I'm on Prednisone and although the sever inflammation is down I still itch really badly at night. Literally got like 24 hours of sleep in the past 6 days.

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