necrocat219 wrote:I think that the Rating system we use would be the best system if there was a matchmaking system based on rating; however you can be matched up against anyone, even the lowest ranked players which results in massive loss in rating if you are highly rated. In matchmaking you wouldn't face anyone with a massive difference in rating to you so this problem wouldn't exist.
Correct. The point is that, unlike sports using these kind of rating systems, VortexWars still is about
luck and strategy (skills). A sport champion can expect to win most of his matches if he's the most skilled. In VortexWars you can barely expect to win more than, I don't know, 60-70% of games, even versus beginners, there will always be this game where you are last to start, get trolled on a small map, get unlucky 3 rolls in a row in early stage, and so on.
Now if you lose 8 times as much Rating in a single lost match than in the 5 next won games, you cannot really pretend anymore that Rating is an indication of skills in this game... Playing only vs players of equivalent Rating would mostly avoid this unbalance, probably.