Guild Wars 2

Sort it out please. It makes a mockery of the leaderboards.

People should permanently decay starting from around 5 days. When they play again they should kick in where they dropped to NOT be pumped straight back to their rating when they quit the game or took a break.

Not playing should be reflected as a decline in skill. And if the leaderboards are meant to reflect team and individual skill then they need to have such a decline.

This really is an important thing to fix. Leaderboards are good ways to have fun and try to progress yourself. Not being able to do this due to afkers is so lame.

Seriously, the logic and fairness here is against the current system. Please add significant leaderboard decay that rewards people who actually play the game.

People go on vacation for amonth so they shouldnt lose their rating thats silly. Thats why decay is set at about 2 months I think?

Krayiss.4926:

People go on vacation for amonth so they shouldnt lose their rating thats silly. Thats why decay is set at about 2 months I think?

Only top 20 seems to enjoy this, personally I lose 20-30 positions every day or so, if I don’t play…still I played 4x more than the first place

Krayiss.4926:

People go on vacation for amonth so they shouldnt lose their rating thats silly. Thats why decay is set at about 2 months I think?

No because if they go on vacation for a month they wont be a top player when they come back. They position on the board should decay. If they are good enough then their rating will go back up when they get back and they can regain their place on merit again.

It will be 100x easier to move up too if afkers dont take up half the spots.

If someone has a higher rating than you, they’re higher than you on the leaderboard, end of story. No one is ‘taking up half the spots’. Essentially, the problem you’re having is that they might be afk, but they’re still better than you.

Mammoth.1975:

If someone has a higher rating than you, they’re higher than you on the leaderboard, end of story. No one is ‘taking up half the spots’. Essentially, the problem you’re having is that they might be afk, but they’re still better than you.

Yeh but they aren’t. Because people improve and the game moves on. So what you say is illogical. If someone doesnt play for a month then they are now alot worse. And if you play alot that month you will improve and be better. Yet you can’t overtake them. Ever.

When I first appeared on the leaderboard, I had 8-2 w/l, and was rank 61. After playing a lot more matches, I’m now rank 360 with 16-18, and about to drop even more.

If we look at the top leaderboard players, they are at the top with similar scores that I had in the beginning. 10-1, 9-1, 8-2, etc. But, I wonder, is that an accurate portrayal of their skills? How many of them will keep their ranking after playing twice the games, and how many will fall?

DiogoSilva.7089:

When I first appeared on the leaderboard, I had 8-2 w/l, and was rank 61. After playing a lot more matches, I’m now rank 360 with 16-18, and about to drop even more.

If we look at the top leaderboard players, they are at the top with similar scores that I had in the beginning. 10-1, 9-1, 8-2, etc. But, I wonder, is that an accurate portrayal of their skills? How many of them will keep their ranking after playing twice the games, and how many will fall?

No it isn’t. Also if you look at the top players, when they play more and more games they are falling to around a 65-75% win rate. The 12-1 type record is unsustainable so they can only go down if they play.

So they wont play. I guarantee it. Therefore this should be taken as a loss of skill and their rating and rank should degrade much much sooner than it does currently. And they shouldnt regain their place when they play again

I do think they should “regain” their place when they play again, after being decayed, in the sense that as long as they are motivated to keep playing, they will surely have their win rate fall some, so it doesn’t makes a difference.

But the decay should be faster, imo, at the very least for the people with very few games.

Arheundel.6451:

Only top 20 seems to enjoy this, personally I lose 20-30 positions every day or so, if I don’t play…still I played 4x more than the first place

Yeah same here, duno how top ranked ppl managed to stay there without loosing rank.

DiogoSilva.7089:

When I first appeared on the leaderboard, I had 8-2 w/l, and was rank 61. After playing a lot more matches, I’m now rank 360 with 16-18, and about to drop even more.

If we look at the top leaderboard players, they are at the top with similar scores that I had in the beginning. 10-1, 9-1, 8-2, etc. But, I wonder, is that an accurate portrayal of their skills? How many of them will keep their ranking after playing twice the games, and how many will fall?

There’s a good chance it’s not, due to a feature of glicko, and if that’s what we’re talking about then I understand the complaints a little more. There are better solutions than decay though. For example, you could reduce the initial ratings deviation from 350, although it’s too late for that without resets.

The thing to keep in mind is that they are ranked there because they have the highest rating, and you can always increase yours too. This is why people who aren’t at the top find themselves losing position faster, they’re simply being overtaken.