When will the Nightmare Reset issue be addressed?

Where do we stand on eliminating the Nightmare reset, creating a new league for 5k+, etc and so forth? The domino effect is needlessly frustrating for Ace I players.

The whole concept feels like a bandage on top of poor game leveling design... and it feels about time that it gets finally resolved.

 

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Agreed, this is something that should be looked into (and fixed) if it hasn't already been done so

 

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I agree with you that the reset is a big problem but I think that not having any reset would be even worst, we would have huge infamy gaps between players that wouldn't represent their current skill/ gear/ meta... It'd be like if the Formula 1 pilots carried their distance from one race to another... It'd be even more boring than F1 already is

 

Because you would be able to build a big advantage once the meta is favouring you (Like Peelah did with his double frost, double mortar spam stuff or when devs buffed the enforcers and nerfed speeders)
I can't imagine in what infamy Orpheus would be if we didn't have any reset

 

Lack of competitiveness?

 

How so? If somebody starts with 2k infamy points ahead of you and both of you have similar items/ skills/ time to play why would you even try to reach him/ her?

 

Keep the highest constant like when you hit 6k. It stays 6k no matter what people with 5k will be matched against them. Keep special rewards for reaching landmarks(cosmetics and stuff). I still think league rewards should be more lucrative in order that more people should play the ranked and aim for the highest spot.

 

It goes back to the core question: what does Infamy represent? It is intended to reflect "power," a some combination of ship+items+skill. If a player spends 2 weeks in battles, if they are ending with 5500 infamy, then resetting that to 4000 infamy reverts all the data gathered on the player's "power"... and then Matchmaker(tm) starts to match everyone from 4000-6000 as if they were all the same infamy, which is false.

I don't actually know, but I'm guessing the reason for doing this is because there aren't a lot of players at the 5000+ range, so it brings them all back to 4000 so that Matchmaker(tm) can more easily put matches together. At that point it's just a mechanism to trick Matchmaker(tm) into putting together matches that feel balanced to it, but in reality are not, as the data states. What should be done is to tweak the algorithms used in Matchmaker(tm) to be able to find matches for these high level players without devaluing what infamy means, and in return we will have more fair matches up and down the chain.

At the beginning of the season matches from 3000 and up are affected by this hack until it evens out toward the end of the season, at which point the cycle starts over and all infamies from 2500 and up are questionannable, perhaps more often than not. There has to be a more elegant solution to Matchmaker's algorithmic deficiencies, and I'm just asking for tangible progress toward it.

 

This does not happen. I have no idea why people keep saying this. Noone gets pushed further and further down because of the nightmare reset.

 

I just don't know how having no reset would help with that. Every sport I can think about resets every season. The difference is how long the season lasts.
If you look at NBA, soccer leagues, NHL, NFL, you'll see that their teams have the same points (0 on those cases) in the season beginning in order to keep the season exciting.