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RE: Solution for preventing bots playing level 1 cards from farming rewards and diluting DEC & cards value
Thanks for the post and ideas. This is definitely something we are considering but we want to generally allow players to progress through the ratings, otherwise the game can seem too frustrating. So if we do end up making a change like this I would like to try to couple it with other changes that give players some other type of benefit/progression for win streaks.
Win streak bonus is breaking the rating system. Players could still progress, and progression can be made even more entertaining with Multi League implementation, allowing also for better rewarding of good players in lower leagues.
At least 50 000 chests will be farmed by lvl one bots just this season, maybe 100 000 or more, according to my estimations.
P.S. Wouldn't hurt you to give a small upvote for a post based on in-depth research and trying to help with a problem that's been noticed over a year ago and not truly addressed yet.
My bad on the upvote, I swear I upvoted it when I read it yesterday but I don't know if it didn't go through or what happened.
There is one other ELO implementation change which is that the minimum rating increase when winning a match is set to 10. So if you beat someone with a much lower rating than you, then instead of getting an increase of only 2 or 3 points it will be 10 points. Do you think that should be removed as well?
I will try to accommodate this feature into the simulation script later this week and compare it with plain ELO to see how different the impact is. Thanks.
What is the K value used? I assume below 20?
The k factor is 40.
10 points minimum increase of rating still favors players playing large numbers of games (like lvl 1 bots do), as it breaks the symmetry of the equation, although it has a lower impact than win streak bonus.
Instead, 1200 value instead of 400 would allow for a similar effect but would also allow for slightly larger gain for an underdog being symmetrical.