Hi WW, I wanted to know your thoughts on xp and leavers in this game.
It's been known for a while that the leaderboard needs a reshape (basing the leaderboard off xp isn't an accurate display of skill in the slightest especially with the current way xp is given) and i wanted to know your reasoning behind this.
I also wanted to know why draws are given when someone leaves when the scores are even or at 0-0 (or in my case, when opposition leaves on the team display right before the bounce and i get a draw when the game hasn't even started)
Let me know if you can, thanks for the game and your time
Hey @Bam29D, big topic to talk about today, lots of people have opinions on this, happy to share some of the thought process and what we might be looking to do in future.
The current leaderboard has been around for quite some time and mostly works on sheer mass of games played in a way which limits I guess the amount of skill required to be at the top, given you can just play a heap of games. For the current leaderboard we also thought about having weekly / monthly cycles, to get some different names up there, rather than just those who were able to play a lot of games early on.
While this is what has ended up in the game, we wanted to do much more, but the short answer is we didn't have the time. The idea behind having both ranked and unranked matchmaking is so we could match people together with some skill-based system for those that wanted it. With esports being such a big part of gaming culture and most multiplayer games having some kind of division system or competitive ranking system to separate player skill levels, there's no doubt we want to include our own variation of that in future. We just don't know when that will be.
As for the reason you are getting draws sometimes when players leave the team is currently tracking down. We are aware of a disconnect bug that may not be awarding the correct result, and hope to have it fixed in a future update.