1: Reset Leaderboards * The game is practically dead, and there isn't many events currently happening at all so I've come to the conclusion that there should be a reset 1 every year, so the game can stay alive for like 3 months and then it will slowly die down again with the remaining sweats and then wait until the next reset which should be 1 reset per year. 2: Removed Ranked or Add back Unranked * The game is just not fun when you've to rely on maintaining ELO Rating because sometimes you just wanna fuck around with the boys in games and just clown around and not try. Like Ranked the system is super unforgiving and I think we should either add back unranked or completely remove ranked games. (I just want unranked back). - Although Ranked I can understand that people want to have it so they can strive for something. 3: Private Game Situation * I think that there should be 1 sign per game so the "nooby friend groups" as what most people refer to these casuals trying to play their own private game without anyone else joining I have 2 solutions: 1: Either if you have OITC perks/Donator or above, you can make your own OITC room and invite people to it that you want to play (The game will be statless though as well as you can't gain any stats except levels, (like how 1v1s are) 2: Just have 1 sign to queue up and play so everyone can play in the same game, and if 12 players are already full. then the sign can just reset itself and say 0/12 so people don't have to wait. 4: Maps: * I just miss the old maps and I just wanna play on them again because they're just fun, Those being: Plaza, Meltdown, Vertigo, Grind, Drone, WMD & Uplink. As well as maybe add some new maps too. 5: Tournament System: * Have tournament games not make you lose or gain ELO Rating and maybe add some new types of gamemodes for Tournaments specifically. (If possible) 6: Stats. * Because /duelstats is a thing and /stats for normal games isn't a thing. Maybe you can add that as well as having a 1v1 leaderboard because that doesn't have a leaderboard. 7: Cosmetics * Add more cosmetics because yes :). That's what I really want to see in OITC.
I pretty much agree with everything said. All of these suggestions are really good. Also to add on to the 3rd suggestion, there has been multiple people who have achieved some of the highest ranks in oitc due to only playing "private games" with their friends that they beat 100% of the time which is basically boosting and should not be allowed. the 3rd suggestion would completely solve this problem
Exactly. I just don't understand why this hasn't been done yet. Other than like maybe lack of server storage or something idk...
I know I'm not a part of the community, but a few points resonated with me as they were things I've been thinking about for a long time when I play the game. So, I thought I'd show my support of nixisawesome's post and give extra thoughts. On the subject of Point 2, I feel like a place to escape the mostly grueling environment of Ranked would be extremely nice. The problem with ELO is that at all levels for most people it ends up being frustrating or burdening. Due to loss aversion and the fact that you are only rewarded for your ELO gain by ranking up, something that happens super infrequently and thus isn't a very reliable reward, losing ELO always feels worse than gaining ELO. I'm not exactly sure the full scope of why that is true, but if you think about how many times you or a friend have raged over losing a ton of ELO vs the amount of times you or a friend have felt genuine joy over gaining a lot of ELO, I think that helps you see what I mean. In addition, ELO can feel like something looming over you as you play the game, something pressuring you to perform better and something that causes stress at the thought of losing it. Some players are affected by this more than others, but I think having an Unraked mode to escape this pressure and stress would make players a lot happier and help them deal with frustration caused by the game. Also, it would be a nice place to mess around and be casual, as nix pointed out. Also, some problems from ELO come from the fact that the game has no matchmaking. Mixing wildly different ELO levels means top players either gain +1 or choke +20 and mean Bronze just spiral downward and don't improve much. Point 3 seems like a no brainer as a good thing to add imo. Groups of friends are common enough that I think a lot of people would appreciate it. Even people who don't play in friend groups would enjoy not having to deal with people who leave whenever you click the sign to join their room. It'd also be cool to be able to modify the rules slightly (stuff like amount of kills needed to win, sword material, sword knockback strength, arrows received from kill etc.), but that's a somewhat big ask and not necessary to make the feature great. I can still dream though. Point 7 would be neat as well b/c they're just fun. Something interesting would be maybe to give out cosmetics at certain, closer spaced ELO thresholds than ranks, as that would make the ELO system rewarding, and even if you drop down later you still have a cool cosmetic piece that telegraphs your once high heights on the ELO ladder. Those are my own thoughts and wishes, though this is more of a rant of why I dislike the ELO ranking system and thus want Unraked.
I agree with all of these, especially 4. I've actually made a whole thread on old maps being brought back, which you can find here :) - https://itsjerryandharry.com/threads/oitc-bring-back-old-maps.131089/ great list
Thanks Trevor :) --- Post merged --- All of this I can agree with and is 100% accurate to what I believe in that I haven't mentioned. So yeah Thanks Creepering_Along :)
I don't think ranked should be removed, but I agree with most of what you're saying. I like the idea of having one sign to join all public games, people trying to play with only themselves are so annoying, especially when they're grinding for ELO. I definitely agree with cosmetics, I also think maybe you should be able to buy a stat reset in the cosmetic menu for like 20,000 coins or something. (The stat reset would set your ELO back to default and then set your kills,deaths,wins,games all to 0). My only worry about unranked is that players would rarely/never play ranked anymore unless they knew they could win the game, which kinda takes away the fun of having ranked to begin with. (Example, if lunar and adem are on I'd opt to play unranked with them because I know they're most likely gonna beat me.) It would lead to people hoarding the elo they have once they reach a certain point, IMO.
