How can I see the elo of other players?

Hello Zero-K community,

I would like to ask how I can see the elo of other players during a game. Maybe it's a dumb question, but I can't find the option.

I need to know it to tell whether a player's skill is sufficient to be the only air player of a team or if I should play air myself, and to know at which flank more players are needed.

In earlier times I could see it in the player list. But now I can only see icons and try to distinguish between different kinds of orange and can tell nothing about players who don't use matchmaking.

Thanks for your help.

Team/casual balance is no longer solely based on your results in those games. Matchmaking has a big influence on it. The team Elo was made invisible due to not being a reliable representation of skill. The rank icon is based on matchmaking only and is thus meaningless for players who don't use it. (But for people using matchmaking, it is a better indication of team skill than what we used to call team Elo)

I would not recommend judging somebody as critical as your air player by a simple rating. For example when you see a great air player in the enemy team and you know that one of your 1200 Elo teammates is bad at most things but knows how to use swifts effectively, I'd place him in that role. His only task will be taking the enemy air down, making it hard for them to get any bombers into play. This'll grant you a decisive advantage on the ground, where they are down one good player. I wouldn't want somebody I don't know to play air, even if he has a good Elo.

The icons are also supposed to show the smoothness and inaccuracy of Elo. When you can't see the difference between the colors there's not much of a difference in skill beyond random variation. You can still see who's "better" because the player lists are sorted by Elo. If you're trying to optimize your team games, you should know your teammates playstyle or let them decide for themselves. Elo wouldn't tell you much more than you can see on the icons. Default example: Firepluk has 2000 Elo, but when he places an air fac you'll still need an air player.

That's a bug! 1v1 elo was meant to be fully visible.

http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/22928 for all the endless community discussion about design of these icons. Shape is level, color is Elo. The average frequency of light emitted by the icon is directly correlated with Elo.

Of course you don't get to know your teammates in the pregame. You need to already know them, which is not really hard looking at the size of this community. Otherwise get some clan mates to play with.

Oh wait, I see 1v1 elo
Must have missed it as was typing and looking for it from small phone screen

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