How will SR decay work with the new role queue?

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SR decay is one of the main reasons I stopped playing Competitive regularly. I really hope we aren’t expected to play 15 games a week if we want to play all three roles…

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It will probably only require it for one role.

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They didn’t say, but you can always test it on PTR.

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It makes the most sense to me that decay would affect all three roles with the same timer.

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We don’t know how any of it’s going to work yet, we’ll just have to wait for the official announcement

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I mean… check twitter dude :rofl:

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Gosh how did I miss a tweet

EDIT: So now I’m wondering if SR resets. The only thing I can find in this announcement is this:

As you’re playing, please bear in mind that this is a brand new skill rating system—you shouldn’t compare it directly to your previous SR, and it may take a while for your role-specific ratings to properly adjust.

Hmm.

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That’d allow people to exploit top500 SR by getting super high SR and then sitting on it and playing other role to keep the SR from decaying.

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IMO decay should only exist for Top500 due to limited slots.

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Jeff just said in Seagull’s stream that SR decay will be removed completely for now but they know it causes some problems. So I guess they want to do something but it’s not ready yet.

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I do play regularly so it doesn’t affect me but I’d imagine it’s kind of a problem for top500.