b00060 wrote:Can anyone tell me why ?s can't be filtered out in game settings. I think that if you are above x rank say 1600, you should be able to set up games and filter out ? . This would eliminate farming, eliminate higher ranks from being targeted by multis (seems to be growing daily as people do not want to pay for a membership and keep creating multipe accounts) and protect legitimate new recruits from getting their ass handed to them and souring their first experiences on the site.
Can anyone argue why a ? needs to play a major in their first game on CC or why a Major would need to play a ?
I actually answered this in the first thread where you asked it.
The reason is very simple. New people are how this site grows. If anything, folks should be MORE respectful, helpful, willing to play new people. Granted, some turn out to be idiots and just leave. So what? Its the ones who stay that matter.
Per the 1600 bit... there is no real distinction there. The basic "competency" level is Lt, but the real level for being "good" is more like major and above. Even then, it really matters what maps and styles one plays. People who play all the maps in various styles usually don't do as well rank-wise as those who play "everything".
Anyway, I can see, have advocated allowing lower ranks to exclude higher rank folks, very broadly. However, higher rank people excluding lower rank folks would just lead to abuse and make it harder to move up the ranks. You lose to someone of low rank, you lose. End of story. If you truly are good, you will get the points back. If not.. well you probably were not as good as you thought anyway.
Per the multi bit... this is not a problem of higher ranks farming lower ranks, per se. Multis have been around about as long as there has been a site. Sometimes we get a wave, then it slides off. Your "fix" won't really matter. After 5 games, they lose that ? anyway.
