Ladder Decay System

[Ford (retired)]

     In Red Alert 1 since there are so few players already, there is a big issue of players camping the top 3 spots and then not playing at all which effectively causes the ladder to be unplayable on certain days.  I think a decay system should be an option for each ladder to be enabled and mitigate this issue.  Decay settings would be a signifcant improvement, but the grace period and amount of decay should be customizable like the other settings.

 - add ability to set grace period

 - ability to set the % of total points lost per day after grace period is up

 - ability to set the lowest rank to be affected and/or make it so points cannot decay lower than (ie. 5th rank's points)

 - display to players if they are going to decay and how long until they do

     Thank you for creating the quickmatch ladder.  I hope the devs all enjoyed doing so.

Cheers

[[CC] RaVaGe]

It's a good idea.

However, for more active games I'd prefer if players decayed out of the top 10, as it seems unreasonable for players to just play enough games and just wait for the month to end.

 

Edited January 22, 2024 by [CC] RaVaGe