Reaching a WHR amount where the game is no longer fun

It'd be interesting to know what the certain strategies for team games you've discovered as optimal (have the biggest impact on winning the match) are

1vory K1ng: TAAAANKS!!

Don't start at front and you wont have to resign in 10 minutes.

How about a randomly balanced room with no elo gain?

Increasing the complexity and implementing new stuff in Zero-K can have a good impact on making strong players select multiple fair options to win a match. Right now if you are high ELO either you go economy, rush something with your team, or rush bertha.

I proposed a long time ago the modular unit system. You can have a small glimpse on how it would works if you play Zero Wars and use those special commanders. Imagine all units that can be modular and from there you change how units work in the home menu(site) or in-game. All these changes, of course, will come with a price in terms of metal income. If you want a glave that fires EMP bullets the cost of that glave will increase. If you want an outlaw with EMP wave it will have a slight increase.
The only problem for all of this will come in balance where I will clearly assist in any way possible. To perfect the balance we can also use Zero Wars system since you can clearly see how units interact with fight command.

I still strongly consider that a total revamp in terms of unit complexity for this game will make everything better and will also bring more people here, thus increasing our chances for a better and stronger game.

I think the problem here is squarely the astronomical skill variation within a single game.

Unfortunately, playing games with a narrower skill distribution seems not just unavailable for an outspoken and non-negligible share of our player base, but - judging from the rest of this thread - possibly also undesirable and maybe even unthinkable.

And so we're left with suggestions like "pretend skill higher than 2200 doesn't exist", "allow smurfs", "random balance" (which is what you get if everyone smurfs, anyway), and even "make a completely different game".

quote: actually creating high elo rooms is impossible without asking a moderator

That falls under "unavailable", indeed.

Sure:

quote: Unfortunately, playing games with a narrower skill distribution seems not just unavailable for an outspoken and non-negligible share of our player base, but - judging from the rest of this thread - possibly also undesirable and maybe even unthinkable. Allow everyone to host a game with elo limits.

On a serious note, i don't think we're exactly disagreeing here.

(Except i do think that "random balance" as a solution to bad balance is a particularly hilarious take).

How does me not offering a better solution make your suggestion of making things even worse immune to criticism?

Manored no one is forcing people to play their best, Firepluk play atrociously and you don't see anyone banning him for it.

I agree that it would be nice to have 2 separate elo for serious/non-serious intent [hey isn't this what matchmaking elo and casual elo is for] but since MM is basically deserted and there is no way to tell whether you are playing casual serious or non-serious. so the problem is intractable.

you can just say the hell to it and play however you want and take your lost when you lose, your elo would make an average of it.

the simplest solution to my eye is just to start using MM already but hey I've been banging that drums for months and no one want to hear it anymore.