Guild Wars 2

I’ve logged a lot of hours on GW2 at this point and spent most of my time in sPvP. I’m a casual enough player to not want to pursue a competitive team, and I play off hours so that I cannot regularly play with my guild. That being said, solo queue tournament play has been most attractive to me. However, I am overall dissatisfied with tournaments, and I think there are some elegantly simple “fixes” that may foster better play all around, and ultimately bolster the tournament scene in general.

What I do like:

• Solo queue tPvP has an element of surprise. I like having a random team-comp and working with it. It just aids in keeping the stale meta fresh.
• Not bound to a “schedule” to be a serious player.
• Outlet to find like-minded players.

What I don’t like:

• People leaving with no penalty. Pretty much everyone has been shouting about this since beta and literally nothing has happened.
• Extreme disadvantage vs. premade teams due to lack of communication.

What I would like to see:

• Much more in-depth, multi-factored matchmaking. I don’t personally care if this makes matchmaking take longer; I think most people seeking tPvP want to be placed on a team that is driven and has potential to win over faster matches.
• Instanced Voice-Over-IP through the game client so that you have voice communication with a random team immediately. (This is potentially the most “game-changing” feature)
• In the “Waiting Period” add buttons with various strategic information that a player may select to let their team know what their gameplan will be. For example, a thief might select: Roaming, Far point. A Guardian might select: Bunker, Middle point. To take this further, teammates might be able to vote for or against these selections.

I like your ideas, but the whole “voting” stuff is pointless: people will do what they want to do, and for the most part, that is just to be complete kitten s and off-point fight the whole game.

We need a way to rate players post-match and for those scores to contribute to the overall “skill” score for that player(if we ever get an actual GOOD ranking system in this game…lol).

somsom.5201:

We need a way to rate players post-match and for those scores to contribute to the overall “skill” score for that player(if we ever get an actual GOOD ranking system in this game…lol).

Players Rating players is always a horrible idea. Nothing should ever be dependent on random kittens. No good rating system should be dependent on the mercy of other players.

Then you obviously didn’t put much thought into it.

You weight it, just like you do any other ranking system, to favor positive votes. Someone getting a negative overall rating wouldn’t lose much(if anything), but a lot over time would contribute to a drop in rank. However, if you got a favorable rating in a game, as well as a win, then it would be the deciding factor in “bumping” you to a higher rank.

Again, it isn’t the SOLE factor in rank; it would be part of the overall system, which would also include PPM/G, KPM/G, CPM/G, Overall Heals/DPS/G, etc.

The current system is utter trash and just further contributes to the “GW2 isn’t an e-sport” mentality.

somsom.5201:

Then you obviously didn’t put much thought into it.

I did, but whatever thought I put into was simply outweighted by human behavior. Also other factors don’t really say much about contribution other than you did.

Yeah, I kind of don’t like the idea of players voting for anything.

As for people leaving:
Add a “Join as Wringer” button to fill a 4v5 match and get a glory bonus. Or for potential abuse, just out okittendness.