Matchmaking penalty

[KnightPandaMage]

@justplay

plus, once you reach higher elos like 1600+, the game gets way more competitive because players actually know how to play, have low idle tc time, make fewer mistakes and know how to defend and win. when you grind hard to reach that level on arabia and then suddenly get forced onto a random exotic map you never play, you basically risk losing your hard earned elo just because of the map pool. that is also a big reason why people dodge specific maps.
honestly, the only reason the current system exists is so that players who like niche maps dont have to wait in long queues. instead, the majority of players get forced into maps they didnt want, which just creates dodges and timeouts for everyone.

wohaaa, if you play in 1600 i am a commoner for you. i am more in 1300 elo league. And i also play 1-2 games per day after work in the evening sometimes with friends. I mean the difference is that u care about your elo. I don’t care about elo.

Elo is a tool to make me play evenly matched games. That is why ranked is better than lobbies couse of great opponents that are equally skilled.

I play couse i enjoy the struggle of game itself not the rank i get to.

I mean 1600 elo is top 1% you are a pro/nearpro.

[justplay]

@audionysoss

But currently the game doesn’t allow you to pick a single map only, so there is a big chance your Arabian Desert is not your opponents preference. You know from the beginning a different map can be picked, so you should respect other players that were waiting and not quit the game just because you don’t like the map. It’s not other players fault you can’t pick a single map. And if a map is that big of a deal to you, then simply don’t use quick match find and create/join a lobby.

actually, i mostly play 1v1 now. i used to play team games, and i literally stopped playing them because of how frustrating it was when someone dodged my favorite map like nomad and the next queue put me on something i hated.

telling people to just go play custom lobbies isnt a real solution either. custom lobbies have no proper matchmaking, unbalanced teams and take forever to fill up.

and i know its not the other players fault that you cant pick a single map, im blaming the system, not the players. saying “thats just how the game works” misses the whole point of giving feedback. if the devs actually let players pick the maps they want or gave real rewards for playing variety, nobody would have to dodge in the first place.

[audionysoss]

So you admit that it’s frustrating when someone else does it and that is why you decided to start doing it yourself?

And then you go to forum to complain you get penalty for doing this?

telling people to just go play custom lobbies isnt a real solution either. custom lobbies have no proper matchmaking, unbalanced teams and take forever to fill up.

It certainly a better solution then doing what you get penalty for.

[justplay]

you completely missed the point of my post. i wasnt looking for sympathy for getting a timeout, i was explaining why the current map system creates frustration and why penalties alone wont fix it.

instead of just complaining, here is an actual constructive idea that could work really well for everyone: instead of putting 4 or 5 niche maps into the pool that nobody wants to play, the devs could add a single “exotic random” option that players can directly queue for.

if you select that option, you are guaranteed to get a random map from a small, clearly listed pool of less played maps like four lakes, migration or baltic. right now, the few players who want exotic maps are split across too many different maps, so nobody gets a match. bundling them into one selectable option would create an actual playerbase for it with decent queue times, and nobody would dodge because everyone who picked it knew what they signed up for.

anyway, we clearly wont agree on the penalty part, so lets just leave it here.