"Eliminating" these noob lobbies | Forums

[swiftavenger212]

People have complained that they dont like when good players tend to get really high scores because they find these noob lobbies. So my solution is to have so that levels 1-50 can play in any lobby they want (prestige 0), but once your prestige you can only play with prestiged players. Knowing how easy it is to get prestige in this game, it should defintely not be a problem.

Also, they could have an option for newcomers which will allow them to play with prestige players but by default that option will be turned off (This is for people that remake their account, or join game 1 year later when not a lot of people are playing).

Also, in the beginning it will be hard to find prestiged lobbies (since not everyone would have prestiged in first 5 hours) so this feature will only activate once x amount of people have prestiged.

Btw, if someone scores 10K, and rest of lobby scores 4K and all of them are prestiged, then I dont feel sorry for them at all because once you prestige, you should at least have some idea on how to play this game and not get destroyed every time (like in ACR - people have prestiged but not gotten any better, one of the reasons is smoke bomb).

Your thoughts? and do you have any better ideas?

[CheeseLightsaber]

I don't see why they didn't have some system like that in the first place. Honestly doubt it would do much about noob lobbies though, since as you said, there are plenty of prestiged players that are outright terrible still. In any case it helps keep new players from being discouraged by being beaten up by a much better player, which is a positive to help keep a good player base.

[Anykeyer]

Sctually it's already like this. You can join unprestiged lobby only when game can't connect you anywhere else in given mode.
I dont like when someone stays in noob lobby for long. But not because it gives more points, top points are meaningless. It because this person most of the time ruins all fun for this noobs. This in effect can seriously hurt playerbase growth.

[obliviondoll]

Non-prestige search: starts off trying to put you in a lobby where the majority of players are within 10 levels of your current. After a short time limit (approx 30 secs), increases by increments of 10 until all 50 levels are available to match with, then joins prestige search treating you as prestige 1 if no match is found.

Prestige search: Start search for your prestige level or one prestige above or below. At the same regular intervals as for non-prestige search, this should increase by 2 prestige levels in each direction. If the search is finding no matches after counting at least 20 levels past prestige 99 or at least 10 levels below prestige 1, the game should shift the prestige player to a non-prestige search and treat them as level 50.

Early on, when there are very few prestige players, those players will have longer wait times while the system tries to give them competitive matches, but they'll end up in the non-prestige queue after a short delay. Boosters will outstrip everyone's prestige level quickly, and will end up unable to find games for long periods, but legitimate players should only have to wait a few minutes before finding a game. Later in the game's lifespan, new players will have longer wait times because of a lack of other new players, but only by a few minutes.

[FilipinoNinja67]

@obliviondoll

My cat (also my only friend) would call that idea purrrrrfect! -lololol I'm so funny.

Good idea though! Except for one thing, without noob lobbies how am I supposed to look like I'm good when I play like crap against good people?

-sorry, haven't trolled in forever. Needed to get some of it out. :P

[ted95on]

Good idea though! Except for one thing, without noob lobbies how am I supposed to look like I'm good when I play like crap against good people?

-sorry, haven't trolled in forever. Needed to get some of it out. :P

You should tell us who you're thinking about then.

[Collinwood01]

Now you know we cant name and shame here Ted, cmon.

[stingray10]

Now you know we cant name and shame here Ted, cmon.

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[ReptileAssassin]

Yeah, let's make finding games in this cruddy matchmaking even harder.

Great idea.

[luckyto]

Yeah, it's to ease matchmaking.

And I swear, it must discriminate. I never get noob lobbies. Sometimes, I'll wait for a match for a long time, and eventually, it will create a lobby with just me... waiting for other players. Guess what? If it fills up with n00bs, it won't EVER actually start the match. I have to actually quit, and try to go back into another session. Without fail. I have witnessed this dozens of times. Now, if another prestige or two join, the match will start up when it hits six players. But if they are all less than Level 20, forget about it.