Are overall standings posted anywhere? I'm either foolishly missing them or surprised they're not being tracked (or tracked where we all can see.) Thanks for any help.

It has been a week. Should I assume there is no rational explanation?

Is it legal to target a player specifically because they have a higher rank than you? In a recent game I had a low ranking player take me out so that the other low ranking player would win. He admitted such in chat, and stated that it was not against the rules.

Even the player who won recognized it ...

I'd really appreciate a cogent response to my question above. The lack of a reply containing a consistent answer indicates my assessment may be accurate.

no im saying that implementing it as a feature is bad. It only encourages further segregation, there is already things in place that if you really dont want to play lower ranks then do this...xyz

You are missing the point. Rank segregation is ALREADY occurring. If you use pre-set ranges via a ...

I'd really appreciate a cogent response to my question above. The lack of a reply indicates my assessment may be accurate.

An option for two (or three, either works for me) minute speed games would be great.

A lot of the concerns revolve around this: Most people (save the society of cooks) generally don't like the play with new recruits because of the fear that they deadbeat more often and therefore make the game less enjoyable. The logic then goes that if all new recruits are put together in a game ...

We have the inverse problem that many people will not create games to avoid the risk of lower ranks joining, either to avoid farming or to avoid the risk of losing additional points.

It's interesting that the rationale used against a solution like this is that new players wouldn't be able to join ...

I think this is a good idea as well.

HighlanderAttack wrote:I am in the worst group ever. A bunch of attacking idiots that give the game away. I think my group thinks it is flat rate.

Well if they're that bad you shouldn't have any trouble winning!

Ah, ok, thanks for the clarification.

This would just encourage unofficial rank segregation. It's hard enough to find speed games again anyone of any real rank; we don't need more reasons for not opening public games. (My two cents...and it's probably worth about that much.)

This seems a simple upgrade that a small percentage would appreciate and most would be able to easily ignore.

I'd like to give this one a try, if that's ok.

Seems a reasonable suggestion.

Tis a good idea. Make it so, says I.

Supermarioluigi wrote:This has been suggested many times, and always rejected.

So, it's not taking place.

If it's been rejected to prevent segregation then the fact that segregation is now actively, consistently, occurring should at least revive the discussion. Or was there another rationale for rejecting it?

I'll give it a try, if that's ok.

OP is using flawed logic

By making it easy to set rank limits MORE rank segregation will result. The inherent laziness of human nature insures that the create private games option(premiums only) is used by few people. This helps to ward off rank segregation for the most part.

Actually, I'm ...

Never give up! Never surrender!

But seriously, is "avoiding rank segregation" the reason this idea is being ignored? Because rank segregation is already here; maybe some people just don't want to acknowledge that or play only team games so they have no exposure to it.

I think it's a good idea.

I'd like to be able to search for a user in the scoreboard, and the filter not change the ranking. As it is now, if I search for myself, it will find me, but I will be ranked #1. In order to find out your rank, you have to find your score in the full scoreboard by trial ...

I guess I am surprised that something isn't being done to deal with the artificial segregation that is currently occurring. It's not much fun to only be able to play the same small subset of people over and over again, and to have to jump through hoops to do it.

you can get rank specific games in callouts... this has been suggested multiple times in multiple ways, and it just isn't going to happen. i suggest going to callouts and finding the types of games you want...-0
If people are using the forum for this purpose, then they are doing exactly what you ...

But rank segregation is already going on. Just do the occasional search on speed games and that is obvious. Does it matter if it is condoned or not, if it is occurring 90% of the time anyway?

This solution would actually reduce the problem as people could control the range they want and lead to ...