Matchmaking is horrible right now

[lordjoshi2225]

It’s like in every second game I get leavers in the lobby or instant resigns in game, from either allies or enemies. This is a problem for quite a while now and it seems like nothing is done about it.

I report them every single time and all I see in the main menu is “no action was taken”. Will there ever be any improvement against those toxic dodgers, smurfs, … that destroy the good experience for all of us and manipulate the elo rating for them and there teammates and opponents?

[KnightPandaMage]

reposting my suggestion for devs:

What about a dialog button to the winning team at the end of a match that lasted less than 5 minutes?

option 1: Rise my elo i won by drushing or outperforming the enemy team.
option 2: Please leave elo as it is, a player disconnected/smurf.

If most of the winning team vote for option 2, don’t change elo to neither team.
Simple as that. It prevents smurfing to a degree and also fixes my problem of randomly winning 3 matches in a row by such chance and rising to 1400 elo and than 100% losing the next actually played game. It happens now and then.

[lordjoshi2225]

No, that would simply be bad.

1. You should not have any influence on your own elo, the system (if it works correctly) does everything there.
2. Voting as you say would even make it worse with smurfs that drush, as they can vote in their won <5-minute-games that their elo shouldn’t climb.
3. All people that like to bash other/weaker players, even if not being a smurf in the first, could vote for option 2 to keep their elo low. That would make them somewhat of a smurf but it would be way less obvious when looking at their profile/match history.

[KnightPandaMage]

@lordjoshi2225

You should not have any influence on your own elo, the system (if it works correctly) does everything there.

Why? this is optional I don’t want to rise my elo couse of DC or a smurf leaving.

@lordjoshi2225

Voting as you say would even make it worse with smurfs that drush, as they can vote in their won <5-minute-games that their elo shouldn’t climb.

Nope, simple fix, reduce dialog box to 3 minutes. You cant make opponent resign in under 3 minutes with playing.

@lordjoshi2225

All people that like to bash other/weaker players, even if not being a smurf in the first, could vote for option 2 to keep their elo low. That would make them somewhat of a smurf but it would be way less obvious when looking at their profile/match history.

Its just the matter of tweaking the timing. those obvious smurfs then who can defeat a 500 elo player under 3 minutes with persian douch will get tired of doing that over and over. And pattern will be visible very soon. And if a player resists a bit at least, 3 minutes will pass and he will get elo as normal.