Yeah we were talking with IL, about changing the ladder system and making it evolve with seasons but that may take way more time to set up than this small team builder project.
The changes and ideas we were discussing so far include: Spoiler
At the beginning of each season we can have a soft reset of the elos and change the map pool to make sure that we get proper maps in there that are not so imbalanced.
Next step is the match making: the elo and ladder rank only will ever be relevant if teams or the opponents you face are not decided by the players themselves:
Thus we would have a page where you can queue up for a game on like 6 maps minimum of your choice from the map pool.
And you would get paired with a random player or random players if you queue up as a team on a random map from the pool that you and they accepted to play on.
Ofc you can cancel before the match is found but if a match is found you get notified the map you should play on and the players you should be facing on it, then you have like a time period for hosting and playing the game.
Players will have multiple elos one freestyle elo the way we have it and one more serious related to these match making games.
And also some elos related to different cathegories of maps: melee(land), melee(water), chop, etc...
But this is clearly still early in the making and nothing is set in stone yet as all of these things take time to make properly anyways since the idea would also to take this opportunity to remake part of the site and make it more secure.
So yeah in short we talked with IL and once I am done with that small project we may start working on more serious stuff but it will be time consuming and we certainly will take our time with it since well we are doing this on our free time. :thumbsup: :wc2:
Edit about the team builder as of today:
Even if the elo we have right now is not totally and perfectly representative of the real strength of players because of all the flaws we know it to have. It is still a better guess than just the W / L counters and should be useful to make games with players you barely know or remember more interesting and balanced.
It is also much quicker than checking players out with /stats and having the teams displayed all the time on the stream would be pretty amazing for people that just arrived to see right away who is playing who and were they are from :D.