ZaptorZap
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1 year ago The programmers could arrange for this suggestion to be fufilled extremely easily(such as with the short-lived "4 WIDE QUICK PLAY"), but truth be told, it's a very bad patch when QUICK PLAY is supposed to target those without accounts. Plans to create a faux-matchmaker within QUICK PLAY itself have been apart of osk's plans for a long time—dating back to #343 with this reply on GitHub. In this ideal QUICK PLAY setup, you wouldn't have to search for rooms within your skill level—a skill level based on 1v1 performance, mind you.
Don't forget that as a user, you can always just host your own public room if you feel as though the hosts of others are managing their rooms poorly. One of the reasons I suspect players might find solace in the CRAFTXBOT rooms is simply down to the completely static form of discrimination, since the host is an unfeeling robot simply comparing statistics.
rajun274
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
My overall goal is that besides playing Tetra League, I'd like another place to play with similar skill level players, but there are several problems that stop me from achieving this.
The typical place I go is to Custom Rooms and look for an "S+ and below" room. Before Patch 6.3.1, there would be CraftXBot (I think that's what it was called) that had different rooms for different ranks. This mostly solved the problem, but the Bot wasn't always running. During those times, there would never be another similar room, and if I tried to make my own, it would take too long to even find a 2nd player. In these cases, I would just give up and close Tetrio.
After Patch 6.3.1, the problem still wasn't solved. Players can created ranked rooms, but some would keep "Allow Anons" on (accidentally?), which would undoubtedly let a much higher ranked player join and decimate (similar complaint). I've seen hosts kick players from their room multiple times under the presumption of being too high rank, but when I check the kicked player's profile, they seem to indeed fit the room's ranking. Sometimes, there would be no "S+ and below" room; other times, there would be two of them, and so you split the players across two rooms, which is probably not what everyone wants. For me, Patch 6.3.1 made progress towards having rooms available to players, but it didn't solve the root problem.
All of this makes for an unfortunate experience when trying to play games without affecting your TR.
Describe the solution you'd like
At a high level, I would like to request there be permanent rooms for different rankings: "S and Below", "A and Below", etc. There are multiple ways to implement this solution, but before diving in, I would first like to give reason why I think this is a good idea. When CraftXBot used to run, I consistently saw that the Custom Rooms with the most players were the CraftXBot rooms - they were your most popular rooms. I reckon that's a testament in and of itself to the importance of automated, fair, and continuously available rank-based rooms on your platform.
Probably the easiest implementation for you is to expand on the concept of Quick Play. Right now, it's an automated, fair, and continuously available room without any rank requirements. Create new Quick Plays that do have rank requirements, one for "S and Below", "A and Below", etc.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Another option, probably significantly more work, is to take ownership, or build your own, CraftXBot. I know CraftXBot was created by an external partner, but based on its popularity, I reckon you should try making it a full-fledged, first-class feature on your platform.
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Thank you for your time :)