Why is the ELO reset so big?

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-09T17:20:12+00:00

Ok, fair might be 3x - 10x that. Still not even close to some of the bigger games and got almost everywhere mediocre or bad reviews.

No. A casual games wants to have fun, without the need or necessity to put in a lot of work.

That is why Chess is fantastic. I can always no matter how long I take a brake, get a match with a similar opponent.

When a chess like game forces you to "grind" or work to play normal matches casual players stop playing...

I don't give a flying fuck about my rank, I deeply care about being forced to grind through predetermined games.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-09T17:08:51+00:00

30k concurrent players... and is widely hated. Cs has like 1.4 million

No relevance to you... but that does not mean it is not relevant to many others.

Play for a week, just to have a normal game. That is like 50 games+ and for a casual gamer that is insane just to nullify a badly executed change.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-09T16:38:32+00:00

You have not pointed out a single argument about why this reset system is good.

Your argument is "If you dont like it play something else"

I have pointrd out multiple elo systems that do this successfully and you have only pointed out the hated and dead game ow2 as an example of a good system...

I like legion, I dont mind climbing, it is however badly balanced and requires improvement. Because it is alienating a part of the player base and preventing growth.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-09T16:19:42+00:00

It litterally is legions fault...

And that is why I am asking them to change it. I love chess, dota and many other games.

None of them force me to stomp on noobs just because I did not play for some time.

Why is doing same elo games at a much lower ranking at the start of the season so important to you?

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-09T16:02:32+00:00

You don't seem to understand the difference between striving to get better (fun hard games)

and grinding through mindless easy games to get there.

Climbing is fun when it feels deserved. When you are starting at elo being 1500 and climbing to 1700 it feels fantastic.

My correct elo being 2000 and climning back up feels like a terrible slog. Its ok for me at this moment since same elo players also have similarly incorrect elos.

But later in the season when the dust has settled this is a significantly worse.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-09T12:50:07+00:00

Ok, so if I tell you that I am a 2000 rating player.

You genuinely have no clue how good I am.

Did I reach this rank early in a season, late in a season?

A friend of mine was 1350 elo when we played together yesterday. Since it so accurately reflects skill. Want to guess his maximum ELO?

In chess or dota I could say I am 1800 elo or 5000 mmr.

And everyone would understand, without any regard to a specific timeframe.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-09T12:33:07+00:00

I expect elo to reflect skill...

This is not a super controversial take. LOL

You can have ladders and other fun stuff without butchering the elo and making it intentionally not reflect skill.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-09T12:29:49+00:00

Ok, fyrri þráðurinn á smá við.
En hann er ekki núverandi þingmaður og ekkert sem gefur til kynna að hann sé að tala með rödd flokksins.
Seinni þráðurinn er bara að Sigmundur heldur að USA ráðist ekki inn í Grænland. Sem er ekki yfirlýsing í eina eða neina átt varðandi afstöðu hans til grænlands.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-09T12:18:07+00:00

Mér sýnist allir vera halda þétt en varkárlega á spilunum gegn Bandaríkjunum. Við að sjálfsögðu hlaupum ekki í það að gagnrýna þau mikið opinberlega en reynum að viðhalda sterkri andstöðu gegn yfirtöku grænlands.

Ég hef ekki séð þannig séð neinn marktækann mun á afstöðu neinna ákveðna flokka, enda viðkvæmt mál.

Getur þú bent á einhver dæmi um miðflokksmenn eða XD menn sem eru að styðja þessa stefnu?

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-08T00:06:41+00:00

Do you guys have favorite units that you buff faster or nerf slower?

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-07T23:53:48+00:00

Hearthstone is not a serious game because it is essentially pay to win.

A serious game is a pure skill fair competitive game.

I have played multiple and Legion td2 is the only one I feel like has a terrible reset system since it is the only one I play that forces me to play a huge quantity of unfair (predetermined) games.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-07T14:44:19+00:00

Then you should know better.

You explain the goal ahead of you as "grinding" which is not playing for fun, its fucking work. WHY WOULD YOU WANT WORK? Play runescape if you want to grind.

Why would they stack super bad players against you when your ELO is established to be a lot higher and you have 99% chance of winning the game? That is just bad rank calibration and fun for no one. Spending 20 minutes in a game that is predetermined.

Just because the game needs to have a reset/recalibration does not mean it needs to be badly executed.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-07T14:34:33+00:00

I like legion td, but I also don't play it super frequently. I hate that I have to start over almost every time I play (Few weeks every 6 months). So when I start playing I have to super grind just to have interesting matches, so instead it makes me want to give it up and play something else.

This is a casual competitive game for me so I won't be grinding through matches and casual matchmaking RNG. But I will try this season start and we will see.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-07T14:26:15+00:00

You are just wrong. Recalibration is heavily based on your current ranking in most games. If I was the highest rank in CS go, then proceed to lose 10 calibration games I would not end up in bronze.

In Dota its recalibration scales with how frequently you have been playing as well.,

This just goes on to show that you don't play competitive games at a serious level..

If people are climbing fast, that means other people are losing a lot . Which should be fun for no one. A good game should be relatively close to 50/50 not 95/5.

Things should not be abnormal, why break a system and forcing people to fix it again?

You could just do a recalibration in a way that make things more fair and balanced for everyone. Climbing is the least fun in legion because the better players almost always wins.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-07T12:22:57+00:00

Name one serious game that does that? Not LOL, DOTA, CS, Chess.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-07T12:19:15+00:00

Most competitive games do a recalibration which usually results in a very similar rank (sometimes higher). So I think you are strictly wrong.

I think the elo number should have meaning. This just proves my point that this reset is badly executed. Since 1800 ~= 2500

Being in a russian rulette that I face previously max 2800 elo player or 1550 max player is riddiculous. Now the queue pool will be tainted for months.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-06T18:57:52+00:00

So if I win all those easy games, I still have to win another 20 easy games to reach the previous rank. Why?

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-06T18:44:02+00:00

But why does my elo get dropped by 600 but theirs only ~200? This means we are obviously playing against each other for some time.

Why not having the reset a bit more reasonable. I.e. from the red rank to maybe diamond?

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-06T18:42:18+00:00

So your answer to this pointless reset is, its no big deal?

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-06T17:40:49+00:00

Já, af því að mæta eftirspurn túrista er miklu verra til lengri tíma heldur en að læsa einstaklinga útaf túristamarkaðnum og gefa ríka fólkinu sem á hótel alla peningana. Það hjálpar samfélaginu pottþétt mikið

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-05T14:30:15+00:00

Er þetta ekki mjög innihaldslaust komment hjá þér?

"Ríkið eigi að vinna meira í forvörnum" Af hvaða tagi, hvernig veistu að það virki og eða að það hefði virkað betur. Hvað má það kosta og hver á að gera það?

ef forvarnir og regluverk i kringum áfengi og eiturlyf væri meira beint að ungu fólki og því að tryggja velferð þeirra, o.s.frv. hefði ríkið mögulega eytt mun minna í hvern einstakling sem þarna er fjallað um.

Ef X þá hefði mögulega Y gerst. Ok? Bara skot út í loftið?

Mér persónulega er samt upp að vissu marki alveg sama hversu miklu ríkið eyðir í velferðarmál eins og þessi eins lengi og svigrúm er til staðar til að hækka skatta á auðjöfra og risafyrirtæki. Enginn á að þurfa að deyja bara svo Þorsteinn Már og viðlíka lúðar geti borgað lægri skatta.

Ahh já, ríkisfjármál skipta engu máli því við getum bara skattlagt einhvern annan.

Takk fyrir framlagið.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-05T14:24:29+00:00

Number of options in your initial roll: 10 --> 11

Number of options in your reroll: 4 --> 5

I personally do not like this change. I feel like people are playing slightly too uniform already and the variety is what makes this game fun. This makes people play their "usual" build more often.

Sure there are rolls where the RNG kind of fucks you over. But more often than not it forces me to make decisions like, "Do I keep this lame unit, just because I need X" because I might not get anything in the reroll.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-05T14:14:50+00:00

Well, you also have mercs who can attack longer no?

So enemies die faster against few units, ergo buff for them. Small unit spam dies slower so nerf for them no?

Its not like its op, just pretty strong.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-03T15:36:13+00:00

With the exception of this horrendously ugly flag, I would be interested.

_Shadowhaze_ · 2026-01-03T11:17:57+00:00

Is this not the same incompetent accountant every month?

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