I am developing a WC2 remastered ranked ladder

Warcraft I & II General Discussion
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Hey all. I’m working on a ranked ladder for warcraft 2 remastered. For a while I always hoped that wc2 remaster would include some type of ranked system, but since that never happened I figured I’d just do it myself.

Currently, the way I am planning on implementing it is through Discord. The entire ranked system is based on a Discord bot which I’ve been working on, and this bot will allow players to report their games in and then the bot will adjust their ratings based on the match result that players report. I’m still working out all the edge cases, and trying to make sure that it’s intuitive and easy to use.

If this is something you are really interested in then please comment to let me know, I don’t really know how many people would like this and if there isn’t too much interest I might not finish it out. But that entirely depends on all of you. If I see a lot of interest for it, then I’ll continue to put effort into it and make sure it’s the best it can be.

I am just a single person developing this, so the first iteration of the system is probably going to be a bit rough, but it’s hopefully better than nothing. Let me know your thoughts.

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How will you stop liars?

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I am still working all of those issues out.

However, the current plan is when people report games, they will need to include a screenshot of the pre game lobby, as well as the post game screen. Then once one of the players reports the match as a win or loss, the other player must interact to confirm or deny this. If both players confirm, then there is no issue. If a player denys the match happened, the game will be on hold for an admin to look into.

There are edge cases where multiple players can team up to lie and take advantage of this system, and I’ll do everything I can to make sure that those issues don’t happen on my end, but also I’ll need all the players to keep each other accountable. It’s a small community, so it makes it easier to deal with these issues.

Of course, if there are too many issues like this, and people are rigging all their games and stuff, then I’ll either adjust the system or just shut it down entirely. After all this is for the community, and if they don’t want to use it fairly and with competitive integrity, then it’ll be removed.