I wouldn't like to DQ people as well, but its a fact that there will be people smurfing in BSG to get the prize or just to bully the weaker players. Therefore we have to come up with a way to stop smurfers. If they were legitimately in gold, then they wouldn't be playing as a high plat or diamond player would they? If they practice custom games, then when they are good enough, its time for them to be promoted, no? We decide who gets DQed by watching the replays and having multiple people agreeing that the player is far beyond BSG level, and that he is a smurf. Thats where we draw the line.
pardon me but that would be like saying you dont deserve to be the bsg champion because ur the best in gold but blizz hasnt deemed it fit to promote u. let these seemingly plat level ppl play but award the prize to someone else other than those who are good enough for plat. just my 2cents.
i think BakaInu means more of high plat / diamond calibre which is clearly leagues above his displayed ranking rather then just plat or best in gold. alot of the time the smurfers who were caught disparity in actual ladder ranking and gameplay is not even close, we have had silver and bronzes playing like diamonds and that surely is way too suspicious.
we have to draw the line somewhere and although that might end up affecting an extreme minority of "legitmate" players (so far nearly all those caught have admitted being smurfs) it is a necessary cost to protect the majority of our BSG playes who just want to have fun in a "fair" competitive environment or people will just keep bullying/grieving the BSGs.
With that being said, if there's a better way to detect smurfs or if anyone has suggestions i'm sure BakaInu & Zergtastic would be more than happy to listen to them and try them out.
Also, somehow this 1.34 patch thread got derailed! Might have to move these posts to the smurf topic for continued discussion.
I'm glad the fungal growth was a bug and they're going to fix it...nothing annoyed me more than losing all my probes on the lowground base of Xel'Naga Caverns without any warning at all!
Definitely needs a fix, the damn sound is super annoying. I'm also getting rank 89 showing every time I finish a game, even though I'm 3 or 4.
Also did it actually fix the promotion system? Has anyone been promoted yet? I'm versing master leaguers every game and winning about 60-70% but still no promotion... maybe it's still broken?
I had that rank problem once as well, i was rank 2 plat and i lost one game and suddenly went to rank 100 which made me almost **** my pants.
The promotion system has fixed for me now, i've gotten promoted to diamond and now im vsing masters or high diamonds. Before i got promoted, i was always vsing mid-high diamonds or high plats and winning around 70-80percent. So i think that patch 1.3.4 fixed the GM ladder page and promotions but they have a little problem which isnt really a big deal. Your rank is still displayed properly in the ladders page.
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