Should the online starting ELO be 500? (Making new player experience better)

[TwerDefender]

I think it is worth considering how long this takes:

Effects of changing the starting elo to 500

I calculated this to respond to a reddit post and thought it would be interesting for the people here as well. I used to be quite opposed to lower the starting elo, as it would just pull everyone else down to the new average, but I failed to take into account how long this would take. atm we have about 40 000 active players. I don’t know at what rate new players join so let’s do the calculations for the new average elo depending on how many people join (assuming the current average is 1000): a…

we currently have around 40 000 players. if we were to change the starting elo to 500, it would require 10 000 new players to change the average to 900. I think this would be an acceptable trade-off