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hi, I would like to know if there is only me that it annoys to face that smurf on DE, because of its we have people who sit their elo just to be in the first page and are proud to show how much they are beautiful and strong and create another smurf because it's fun apparently, and suddenly we have a ladder that doesn't mean anything anymore

so it's only me who finds it boring ?
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Nice smurf :D
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Please don't forget the smurf that start the game with an" oh it's gonna be easy" , while they can't even play on their main acc
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not sure about ppl are smurfing
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Smurfing is cancerous and should be viewed with the same disdain that cheating is. But that's just my take. As long as major streamers are using smurfs, it's socially acceptable to smurf in this community and it won't change.
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I might also be influenced by kynesie/tit PTSD
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look wrote:not sure about ppl are smurfing
look the ladder imao
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yeah i think smurfing on DE is a bit much when you can already play with any nickname you want. it feels like an extra step towards being annoying
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Smurfing kinda defeats the point of having an elo and a matchmaking system, rather than a lobby tbh.
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Smurfing is a good thing, the best is when you beat someone who you know is a better player than you and hit them with the “GG EZ, so free”.
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Any solution to this?
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MCJim wrote:Any solution to this?
Extrajudicial murder.
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MCJim wrote:Any solution to this?
Only one: Activity must be commended and inactivity punished.
This could work through a ladder season. A season could be reset every 3 months or so, maybe also think about implementing a system like Bonus Pool in StarCraft 2. Only if you use up all your Bonus Pool points will you gain your true rating, because if you don't use it up you basically let points unused. This idea promotes a certain degree of activity.
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A soft rank reset is a good idea in order to promote the overall accuracy of the system but won’t do much vs smurfing
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smurf is really acceptable against someone who try to do some noob bashing, it's even funny
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ǝɯɐuɹǝsn wrote:smurf is really acceptable against someone who try to do some noob bashing, it's even funny
how to noob bashing in QS tho ? it's not possible unless if you smurf
I hope Zoi and his team of faithful minions can stop demonizing people
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gibson wrote:A soft rank reset is a good idea in order to promote the overall accuracy of the system but won’t do much vs smurfing
There is no way to combat smurfs. If someone wants to buy 10 accounts, they easily can. But they could decay faster on their mains with the right rules, thus promptin them to play more games instead of sitting on their points.

The only way to truly combat smurfing would be a system like in Korea (SSL number) and if everybody could only have one account in their lifetime. No one would give out their personal number to someone else since it would be universally used in your country.

That will never happen though. But... it would be the only way to entirely combat smurfing from the groundup.

Another way would be to put them into smurf queue (LoL does this). Basically, if someone has an unrealistically high winrate they get paired with other smurfs only and leave the general population alone :flowers:
These guys get ultralong queue times, forcing them to go back to their main again :lol:
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speedflyer wrote:
ǝɯɐuɹǝsn wrote:smurf is really acceptable against someone who try to do some noob bashing, it's even funny
how to noob bashing in QS tho ? it's not possible unless if you smurf
Well he’s right, as I noob bash you in qs all the time
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gibson wrote:
speedflyer wrote:
ǝɯɐuɹǝsn wrote:smurf is really acceptable against someone who try to do some noob bashing, it's even funny
how to noob bashing in QS tho ? it's not possible unless if you smurf
Well he’s right, as I noob bash you in qs all the time
This one was fun :)
I hope Zoi and his team of faithful minions can stop demonizing people
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Easiest way to stop smurfs is to start smurf vs shitter on ESOC with stan goes deep casting.
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imo the "dub n' dip" is a bigger threat to the integrity of quicksearch than smurfs atm

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