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  1. #1

    SUGGESTION : Ranked & Unranked Solo and Team Matchmaking

    Hello, community.

    With the focus of the new game on being "e-sports ready", I think it would be great to have a matchmaking system for players to prove their skills.
    A couple of reasons as to why I think this would be an essential addition :

    - The few events there are, are only for a few days, and if you miss signup, you're screwed. Also, these competitions are always in a knockout format, which gives a very short playtime for less-skilled players. Matchmaking would allow them to practice against people close to their skill level without fear of being knocked out, allowing them to try again by starting a new match if they lose.

    - All current content is focussed on 1 thing: setting a fast time. How boring! All campaigns are Time Attack, all online servers are Time Attack, and if there are rounds servers you don't know the maps. Simply everything is focussed on setting a single fast time, and to become a truly good player, consistency is just as important. Matchmaking would solve this by allowing people to play a match on maps from a monthly map pool in ROUNDS mode, where consistency is key to success.

    - The current implemented Trophy Ranking system is way too focussed on playtime, sure, a skilled player will accumulate trophies faster than a bad player. But over time a bad player can get just as many if not more trophies than a very skilled player that is less active. Having a Competitive Ranked mode would create a true reflection of player skill without the need to grind.

    I've made some images to illustrate my proposed changes :

    Adding a new button on the main menu to join a competitive match.

    Select game-mode

    Select map style to queue for. Rank is displayed in specific style. Mappool contains 3 popular selected maps, rotating each month. Clicking on "Ruleset" will display all rules.

    Please Nadeo staff, leave a message if you have seen this post and let me know what you think!
     11 people found this helpful

  2. #2
    Messed up inserting the images. Correction :

    Adding a new button on the main menu to join a competitive match.

    Select game-mode

    Select map style to queue for. Rank is displayed in a specific style. Mappool contains 3 popular selected maps, rotating each month. Clicking on "Ruleset" will display all rules.
     7 people found this helpful

  3. #3
    Yes, please!
    Being competitive is such a great way keeping people interested in a game. It's the number one reason I played Cs:go and Lol such a very long time. And also while we're at it. Please let us see global times before we managed to get the author medal. And let us actually spectate the ghosts of the leader boards. Mimicking pro players, and to get back to the post, actively playing against each other is such a great way to improve yourself.
     1 people found this helpful

  4. #4
    **** ranks they only create toxic communities and TM is the only good community left

  5. #5
    great idea to keep the community playing! would love to see this
     1 people found this helpful

  6. #6
    I'll take anything that is not time attack related at this point ... I'm so sick of this format

    summer campaign solo = time attack
    summer campaign online = time attack
    track of the day solo = time attack
    track of the day online = time attack
    arcade = time attack
    track review = time attack

    Devs are just brainwashed at this point, this is depressing

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    Would love to see this in the game, would be an absolute banger

  8. #8
    That's a great idea ! I'd love to see this in the future, and nice work CORONEL-GT on this btw

  9. #9
    The ManiaPlanet documentation mentions Matchmaking, apparently for cup and team modes in Tm2 games. Sounds very similar to your proposed system. I skipped Tm2 so I didn't know this was a thing.

    Would be great to have something like that in Tm2020.