Posted on 03 April 2014 - 04:27 AM

Most of the time, players will only enter a match they are comfortable with. Sometimes, players don't even join some ladders like MineZ, UHC, and most of all, Legacy. It's because they feel uncomfortable playing the ladder and they feel like they will lose. As more and more people DON'T play it, it becomes known not to. When was the last time you saw someone play Legacy?

It is quite obvious that some ladders are favored more than others. Vanilla and OCN being the most popular.

In my opinion, in order to have more people engage in those ladders, there should be a /highscore or a /ELO top. By doing this, people would see the person or the top 10 people with the highest ELO combined. For example, my score would be 13,170 because it is the sum total of all my ladders.

When people see the top 10, they would have a reason to play more ladders in order to get on the top 10 list. It would cause more people to play several ladders instead of just one or two. Additionally, perhaps at the end of each ELO reset, the top 5 could get a free month of donator or something of that matter. This could be changed to fit the server's resets and rules.

If you have any feedback whether it be good or bad, please comment below. This is an idea to engage people in more than just the few popular ladders, as we all know that many ladders including Legacy are failing to get the attention they deserve.

Posted on 03 April 2014 - 04:31 AM

Hmm part of me likes this, part of me doesn't. Definitely an idea worth considering. Will show Gberry and Archy.

Posted on 03 April 2014 - 04:32 AM

If we did this it would be added elo divided by number of ladders, but we've thought about doing this.

Posted on 03 April 2014 - 04:38 AM

Is there anything stopping it from happening? I don't know what harm there is. If anything, it would cause more variation. Right now there is just a few ladders with an ELO system. This would be something unique and fit the ELO system even more by displaying the TOP players of the server basically.

Posted on 04 April 2014 - 02:42 AM

mine would be 13932 :)

Posted on 04 April 2014 - 02:43 AM

Somebody could just have play one ladder and receive 2k+ elo for that ladder, and I'm pretty sure they'd be the top

Posted on 04 April 2014 - 02:52 AM

The denominator would be based on all available ladders, not just how many he played. So right now it would be 8.

Posted on 04 April 2014 - 03:29 AM

So the top ELO would show overall skill, rather than in just one field of pvp. I like it.

Posted on 04 April 2014 - 05:39 AM

Yeah, as I said, it would be a combination of all ladders. It would show the servers top PvPers in all fields. I think it would make the community play more because they WANT to be noticed and get to the top.