@tagada said in Remove rating from (default) scoreboard:
If I play with random players in 8+ player team games I rely on the ratings shown in the scoreboard to roughly estimate how my teammates will do in the game, If I see I have a 1.8k player vs his 1.5k opponent I know that probably I don't need to help him, while if the ratings are opposite now I can proactively react by making sure I am able to help my teammate cause there is a higher chance he will lose his lane.
This is exactly the mental pressure that I am describing in the first post. Rating is is an average across all maps and all compositions. A player can be really good on certain maps or certain positions, yet make fatal decisions when he or she plays outside of their comfort zone. It is an average, and that is about it.
When we hide the rating it means the game becomes more difficult, but also more meaningful:
- You can no longer make assumptions about your opponents based on their rating, but based on what you scouted
- You can no longer make assumptions about your allies based on their rating, but based on what you see them doing
At minute four you can easily determine whether the player (ally or opponent) in question is going to be reliable at its task. As an example: if a player is mid in seton's and he doesn't have a second land factory (or third, or fourth) at minute four then you know that he is going to need guidance and help.
The game makes it easy to inspect your ally: you have shared vision. But it requires the construction and survival of a scout to make a judgement about your opponent(s). And based on what you scout you can make the same decisions. But now you actually need to frequently scout your opponents, instead of seeing it on the scoreboard.
With thanks to @DerpFAF
And to re-iterate: I am not asking for rating removal. I am not asking for removing the rating in the lobby. As I stated:
Rating is relevant for match making to guarantee a fair match. It is relevant in the lobby to perform some form of balancing. But once you are in-game I'd argue it should no longer be visible by default.
Where 'in-game' means that you are actually playing the game, not in the lobby waiting for the game to start.
@techhousenoob said in Remove rating from (default) scoreboard:
Otherwise people with more player knowledge have a significant advantage.
This is the only real issue because our player base is relatively small. Other issues such as 'who to snipe' is, in my opinion, approaching the game wrong: don't snipe, just take out the base instead and then snipe. At that point there is no base to give.
edit: typing is difficult