Points of consideration for returning lower leagues back to ranked play in Modern format. Gathering comments made in Discord today from
@fatjimmy @fatjimmy & myself.
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- Gamify lower parts of the game.
- Provide lower-level goals and objectives for players.
- Create more competition and bragging rights situations lower down the game.
- Encourage players to level up their decks gradually.
- Prevent blocking of players from higher leagues due to lower-level league pros blocking access.
- Ensure good match liquidity in each league.
- Avoid special extraction situations.
- Minimise additional design and development time.
- Align the design with any existing gamification plans.
Specification
- Add back leagues for Bronze, Silver and Gold in Modern format only.
- The league is selected at the start of each season or when you first start playing during a season and is locked for the rest of that season.
- You can select from multiple leagues according to your relevant card collection power, but only the highest copy of each different card counts. E.g. someone with a reasonable Gold level deck would have access to all leagues. Someone with a single BCX account might be restricted to Bronze, maybe silver
- Consideration would need to be given to rating, does this work as existing with the current reset amounts?
- Consideration would be needed for SPS battle rewards at each league. As leagues could be selected, there could be ā000s of gold-level players in diamond, and players should not receive extra rewards just by selecting a higher league. On the flip side, if players have a gold set and play in Bronze, they should not receive more than Bronze level rewards. This would also have match liquidity implications.
- Leaderboard rewards would need consideration and could be mostly or entirely soul-bound, as the priority here is gamification. If mostly soul-bound, the number of leaderboard spots could also be much larger, which might be important if player numbers increase dramatically.
- Implementing this in a way that reduces risk. There are several moving parts to this, which could take some time to assess and refine correctly.
Other Points
- There may be existing gamification ideas already planned, which would make lower-level leagues redundant as a concept.
- It's suggested this is implemented before Conclave Acana is released so that players can buy and level up cards accordingly.
