Ranked experience

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I play on ranked, and 40% of my matches are 1s, coz the opponent leaves to lose mmr and make their account to smurf. The other 40% is when I face against a smurf, who plays way above their acatual mmr and I have no chance to win. And the rest 20% are the actual close matches, fair fights. It’s kinda bad.

Smurfing makes the ranked eperience worse for normal players who dont leave asap.
I recommend to make smurfing accounts requires more time, so there might be less smurf:
A timer should start when the match starts. If the player gives up before 2 minutes, than they should wait the remaining time of the 2min to restart any multiplayer matches. So losing won’t be spammable.

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I think you have a good point about making it harder to smurf. And I like your suggestions.

I have also experienced quite a few smurfs, but I have researched when they have happy hour :wink:

It is often on the weekends and late at night that there are many smurfs online, so I refrain from playing 1v1 ranked at these times. If you try to play on weekdays in “prime time”, you may be lucky that there are more casual players like me online.

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That solution would not work. Those who played during the coop PvP mutation know, that players who wanted to get the achievement for 150 brutal mutations would simply use their workers to kill the main building and lose in like 30 seconds.

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I didn´t know. But I think the idea of ​​making a penalty for leaving/losing matches on purpose is good. Then I have a suggestion how about a penalty if you leave/lose a match within a minute then there is a time penalty of x number of minutes where you cannot start a new match.

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Which league are you in?, I’m diamond and I don’t feel any smurfing around that level, although I have been called smurf many times.

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I am pretty sure there are smurfs in bronze-gold, who farm the Amun portrait and leave half of the games to stay there.

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The people you’re vsing could also be playing unranked and just want to do a specific matchup.

Blizzard should have fixed that by letting unranked select their preferred matchup or by separating ranked and unranked but here we are lol.

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Well, they combined all the ladders to increase online of 1, I highly doubt that anyone would ever separate the ladder on unranked or ranked, especially today.

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I would be great if microsoft actually did that I hope they do. It´s not fair that one guy risk his rank and the other doesn´t risk anything.

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There are no sc2 developers left, they’re currently working in another company. I doubt Microsoft would do something, other than remake. Something like Master Chief Collection in few years and that’s it.

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I am well aware that the old dev team is gone, but Microsoft could hire new people. SC2 has still a lot of active players I hope they realize that and show some interest in this great game.

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Yeah, very so many ways to prevent smurfs in the game. I would actually pay money for SC2 so just we can get rid of majority of smurfs.

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