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smurfs are breeding

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AUrankSmokeDragon
14 hours ago
just a fyi

last few days i have seen yellow and orange players with very recent accounts obliterating silvers and blues me included.. they know what units to get and avoid trash units and they they know how to play.. rusing super mex.. sniping coms.. reclaiming.. walling.. great unit counters and insane micro.. they do things noobs dont do.. they have skill and wisdom..

concider this a warning to those who want to keep the elo they have earned.. i believe there are currently above average smurfs in the wild
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AUrankSmokeDragon
13 hours ago
in chess they solved this by starting new accounts at a higher rank.. this would work well here too as making a smurf might make the game harder.. the issue is if we get an influx of new players they would start the game with long loosing streaks and that might drive them away.. aswell as cause constant and chaotic elo loss spikes.. hmm the unsolvable problem?
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FRrankmalric
13 hours ago
Last days there was a server restart. This resulted in the number "active players" (listed in ladder) to go from 3k to 1.5k. This results in an immediate decrease of ranking (for example for me, the next game I would loose I would become silver). I personally think this yo-yo with the rank color based on server restart to be kind of annoying considering the rank system should have "inertia".

Of course that does not mean that there is no smurf wave, but the re-coloring can contribute to the noise and chaos. I think the best is to check their actual WHR value, not the color. I have seen yellow or silver with a WHR of 2200 or 2300 in a game some weeks ago, so the system might work as expected.
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THrankVexCollectiv
4 hours ago
SmokeDragon, I was in one of the games with you and witnessed it as well. One being a new player account with 53 games in only a couple of days, outplaying blues, and using advanced strategies such as lobbing coms into lava. I reported the player. I hope action is taken to keep our games balanced.
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