Ranked Skywars

Hello! I think this is a great idea, since almost every hacker that joins skywars has a level of 1-2, since they had only joined the server a few minutes prior, just so they can hack. While you'll get almost every hacker out of skywars, other minigames will suffer instead, though. If the hackers that join can't go to skywars, they'll go to other minigames, like capture the flag or survival games. You can't make every minigame have a minimum level requirement, since the only way to get levels is by playing minigames. Adding a minimum level to every minigame would make it so no new player can play them, whether they're hacking or not. While your suggestion is a good idea, it isn't going to remove the hackers from the server, just from that one minigame. Implementing this would just decrease the quality of other minigames. It's still a creative solution, though!

 

Hey.

I do see your point in having ranked Skywars. Skywars in general does have some issues with players, not as badly as other minigames but I would be concerned about what would happen to the regular modes. If you look at it like this, people dont want hackers in their games so they would rather prefer joining ranked. It can also be very unfair on so many levels. I do think its an interesting idea though!

 

Hey Dark_Glxy!

I really do like this idea a lot! I think something like this should totally be implemented right away while we wait for an anti-cheat. I do think there could be some improvements though. Instead of having ranked skywars open at level 50, I think it should open at level 10. I doubt any hackers will be able to slip past staff all the way to level 10 without being reported.

Cons
This would make it significantly harder for new players considering the number of hackers that play SW (especially solo SW). Staff would also have to dedicate more time monitoring players in this minigame. A solution to this could be that players past level 10 are still allowed to join "unranked SW" and report players to help out the community.

Overall I think this a very solid idea and should be tweaked and implemented into MCC asap!

-Tris​

 

I like the overall thought process behind this idea, but I feel like its execution could be flawed. First off, splitting the gamemode will drive down player counts per game as minigames are already struggling to carry a consistent player base. While Skywars is definitely one of the more popular games, as players choose to join a ranked game, it means that unranked games (for lower levels) will take longer to fill up and start. This creates an adverse cycle: the high-level players will have the opportunity to continue advancing through levels while the lower level players will not be given the chance to increase their level and join the ranked games.

Additionally, the gameplay experience in the ranked games may not be exactly as expected. For example, players may get to level 50+ through playing a game like Murder Mayhem or Survival Games, not Skywars. Then, these players can join the ranked SW games. However, players may expect an elevated gameplay experience through joining the ranked games, playing more experienced players. But, if players that didn't gain their levels from playing Skywars join these games, then the experience levels between players would be unbalanced.

 

Hey!
This is going to be a -1 for me. There is a saying that the "solution can not be worse than the problem at hand." Your recommendation (from my interpretation) would hinder new players from experiencing the full glory of MCC. At the end of the day, I hate to say it, but the Rookies are what keeps this server alive. Yeah, us old farts who donated in 2014 when the highest rank was Bedrock gave our part, but our 50 dollar donation is gone, long gone. Those players are imperative, as their contributions are what keep the server running, not ours. Though, you gave me an idea. Maybe ranked skywars in the sense that people play against others that are a similar skill-set. Logistically, I'm not sure how that would be possible, but maybe a system that assigns you to a game based on your level (5-10 above or over) and you play with people that you can't destroy and vise-a-versa. Just my thoughts.



Stay well!

Cessie2u

 

Hey,

I feel like this could be a great idea! Im in for this 100%! This would be great especially because of the fact that the skywars community is super competitive and this would be good for all of the high level players. I love the idea on the level limit that the players can play this, this is a good solution for not going against hackers. I am all in for this, but being honest I dont see them adding this. But, Im sure you are frustrated with the hacker. Good thing its rumored anti-cheat will be coming soon. Lets look forward to that! Hope to see you around! Im in for this, but doesn't seem realistic. +1

Thanks,

 

I agree that it would create a more competitive community as iluvhotmoms mentioned, and it would clear out some hackers making the game slightly more intensified and challenging as people who are skilled at the game would probably play this rather. although i agree with rev3rse as you cant just earn those levels superiorly from skywars and it wouldn't be the most logical way to create "ranked" skywars if it were just based around levels. I believe something needs to be added though to change the game up a little like challenges, or achievements for getting a certain amount of kills or something similar too that could be a more fair way to create a ranked skywars tho as mentioned minigames are already struggling to carry a consistent player base so i'm not so sure about that but yeah!

or maybe you could maybe host your own game of skywars with friends too all compete choosing the map and such - but you could easily do that already by creating a party then joining the game. imo something exciting needs to be added tho to boost the mini game playerbase.

 

Hello there!
I must say, I would love to have this introduced to the game! To win a reward similar to how the top voters of the month (buycraft $$) - not to mention the new grind it opens up to potentially new cosmetics for players new/old.

I am purely speaking for myself here: As mentioned, by @Rev3rse, splitting the current player base anymore would not help the server in the long run, I would estimate the best theoretical time to include this addition to the server for the highly expected minigame revamp that players estimate to come in the following months. The influx of new/returning players to try out the revamped minigames will ideally boost the server population by quite a bit, and therefore the grind for ranked skywars will hopefully keep them on the server.

When it comes to hackers, in my experience it is relatively rare to come across players that are higher than the level 20-25 and have them cheating (usually in this case a ghost client is used or the staff members just haven't caught up to them yet) so I would say that reducing the possible entry level requirement from 50 to 20-25, and for the % of hackers that might make it through that requirement will be uncommon and will be banned very quickly because ideally the demand for ranked skywars will be very large and therefore staff members will be more attentive to removing hackers from it and players can record/report them on the forums/discord.

Relating to my point above, the lack of theoretical cheaters in ranked will mean higher attentiveness will be put on regular skywars because if a cheater wanted to play Skywars, that's the only place they could go. And furthermore meaning that staff can get rid of them before they create havoc on the ranked side of Skywars.

Just my thoughts.
- Elecctricc.