How to nerf Godde?

Getting matched against the same player who you know will kick your ass over and over again is annoying I guess. It might be simpler to just alter the match-maker behavior a little if you would be matched against someone you played against recently. Such as expanding the elo range, giving preference to other players and waiting longer.

Then again, there are rarely more than a few people in matchmaker, so its not like there are lots of options.

Are we assuming there will be more than two people in the matchmaking queue?

people in party can com 1v1

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Dein just make a room and invite people to play against you!

I suggest Godde Patreon where as lobs donate for every game lost!

I've pondered the concept of a game and matchmaking system where the goal of the matchmaker is to feed handicap data into the game such that the win chance of arbitrary matches is 50%. Players would still have a rating, with the 'prestige' of the top rank being that you take a handicap against everyone. It's mathematically possible for a rating system to learn the handicaps required for a toy example, the question is whether a handicap that works and doesn't feel terrible to play with could be devised.

Here is a simple handicap that achieves the basic idea (minus the handicap feeling good) provided the theory behind WHR works. If the lower skill player loses a 1v1 then, with some probability, report that the lower skill player actually won instead. Vary the probability based on the skill gap to make each player actually win 50% of the time. Of course, this handicap is simple and feels terrible.

Making the handicap feel good may well be beyond the scope of ZK. It may even be beyond the scope of traditional RTS. The game would need to be designed with some sort of natural handicap system in mind, and would probably need to have fewer positive feedback loops than are common to RTS. Handicaps that mess with unit stats are dangerous because they throw off your ability to learn unit interactions. Handicaps that mess with economy throw off your ability to feel how much an opponent should have. Maybe it requires some sort of fairly-linear victory point control system, and one player could simply start with more points.

I plan to make a super advanced World War II strategy game where you dynamically change the victory conditions depending on the skill disparity between the players.

I will start development any decade now...