Lessening the Problems Caused by Infamy Reset

We all know that players below nightmare league tend to suffer a fall in infamy directly after the infamy reset. This downward pressure flows all the way down.

To potentially overcome this, my thought is that (for nightmare players) the game should track their infamy, and their ‘pre reset’ infamy (which also gets adjusted for post reset wins & losses). For X days after the infamy reset, nightmare players could be subject to matchmaking based upon that adjusted ‘pre reset’ infamy which would revert to normal infamy X days after reset.

The theory is that the best players will regain enough infamy after X days, that they are no longer at being matched with players from Ace 1 when matchmatching reverts to normal infamy.

This will not completely remove the downward pressure, but will remove the situations where the best players are fighting players who will end the season some 2000 or so infamy points below them.

For Ace 1 players, they’ll at least be facing players that they have a ‘chance’ of killing.