Posted by Yami

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I mean, I understand that. But, there is this thing when it comes to game design that's called the "Dominant Strategy", If a player can get a high rank in a room, and only fight people on their level, the likelihood of them winning is greatly reduced.

Sure, I'd agree it's more fun to fight someone on your own skill level, however, I don't think that "thrill" would hold out. Eventually, people would all just move to a casual room and spar there since it's easier to win. - If you can get the same result, or better, and the method is easier - people will choose the easier method. Hands down.

It's an interesting concept that needs to be expanded on before pitched as a completed idea, but then again; that's what the forums are for!

That's why ranked room is the only one that puts you on the leaderboard for the season. You have the trade-off, "Do you want to gain stats, and spar random people in leaned-back Casual?" or "Do you want a rank and prize at the end by focusing more in Ranked?"

I doubt it would ever be added, but if it were, eventually more reasons to spar in the ranked room such as having a bracket for singles tournaments based on it would help even more
We don't even have that (singles tourney) right now, so yeah  

The reason why sparring is not seen as competitive anymore is not that something is wrong with the current system, the system always had been like this. the main reason for spar going down is the increasing amount of treshold country players or massive delayers in general, partially causing a second reason which is that major sparrers retired. On the base of that, no good new sparrers will rise. The essence of spar always has been an 1vs1 against a more or less random player and the preparedness for any possible situation that might occur, being able to read various types of sparrers and eventually adjusting the own spar style. there should rather be something like a solo spar tournament as a pendant to the GST. someone who spars for 3 months actively and gets most points does deserve rank one because consistency too is a value, not only skill.

my point however is that perhaps changes could be made, that can be debated about, but as a base, the lag/delay issue needs to be resolved, otherwise every further plans had no meaning if they were to be realized. delay always decreases the quality of a spar, it never increases it, and from some degree of delay, there cannot be made a clear statement anymore about whether wins/defeats are a result of skill or delay.

as long as players delay so massively, they will not only have an advantage, it also means that the opponents will change their way of sparring since in the end both want the win. the result is a distorted image of what is supposed to be a spar. that is the exact reality right now and the major factor that needs to be fixed. the circumstance that most sparrers seem to have accepted the status quo by saying 'it's just a part of Graal now', 'it's not their fault' and even collaborate with them because of the obvious advantages does not change that.

it all starts with fixing the delay issue, there is no logical argument to disprove that. since I know there will be no delay limit ever, the least sparrers who truly are interested into sparring on the highest quality level can do is to kick and from now on refuse recruiting massive delayers because then, among the legitimate sparrers, there would be fair circumstances and on the base of those, there can be a realistic talk about if and how to improve competition, which in the end is the intention of your thread  

droon u delay too you just suck ass  

Posted by super kurosaki

droon u delay too you just suck ass

>inb4 narcissistic rant on why he's the best at everything  

Posted by HamStarr

>inb4 narcissistic rant on why he's the best at everything

Happens every time in every spar themed thread.
There are five of them made around every gst season it's annoying.