Posts made by Mothership

you guys are all having this huge debate over pugs and time playing TF2 when the only real issue I see you guys bringing up is that people might confuse the Faceit ranking as an indicator of skill level, when it does not directly indicate anything.

As long as the Faceit ranking is proplerly marked as such, there should be no issue whatsoever what your Face-it ranking is. You can already view people’s relative skill rankings though other means already available on RGL profiles. Want to see how well a player does? Check their RGL history, UGC, ESEA, ETF2L. You can view thier logs.tf profiles and check how well they did in those matches, Damange, kills, etc.

This faceit thing is hugely overblown. Just move the rank from next to the username, to below the user information or sidebar.

Done.

I will add as a side note, its very easy to verify how much time someone spends playing games just by checking their steam profiles. And I highly doubt there are more than a handful of users that are limited to 6 hours and do not play tf2 or other video games at all. IMO its more of an issue with commitment which everyone should know TF2 players, or more specifically HL players, do not have.

Reminder to please fill out the poll as I have only gotten 35 responses thus far.

Knows how to aim. Good engineer. smells like tangerines.

hopefully we will not repeat the 14 team issue from last season again.

I honestly would prefer to keep Advanced RR and just move the extra teams to main. That is the obvious consequence of removing challenger in the first place. You cant have heavy competition and also be lax at the same time. At least this issue will be minimized next season if the regular season is expanded.

@Roofon Agreed.

Main should be the ‘Main’ division, with the most amount of teams and players. Players should be pushing up from the lower divs easily, while having a difficult time escaping it.

Its off-season again, and I am once again doing my regularly scheduled Favorite Map Poll.

The way this works is simple, you will rank, in order from favorite to least favorite, all the maps available to play currently for highlander. I will be leaving this poll up for one (1) Week.

After the one week is up, I will release the results of the poll along with a comparison to the previous polls we did to show changes in opinion over time.

https://rankit.vote/vote/Cgx9qMBFkRejPCrNVS27

longer seasons mean bigger RR divisions, so less higher skilled teams in lower divs, and hopefully more competitive divs overall (in Adv., Main, & Invite) but only time will tell.

With the summer season starting at the beginning of June, that is the season to really look forward to the most in regards to growth and improvement. Just to list all the changes coming to HL based off this and previous surveys for Season 12:

• Longer Seasons

  • More maps. Which is a mixed bag with Borneo and Lakeside/Cascade being the most viable options to be added for those additional weeks.
    • Theoretically we could add cp_rapids, but that would require a ton of testing from the HL community and @theatreTECHIE putting in a ton of work so it could be ready within the next 5 months.

• Possible paid divs with prizepools below Invite

  • IM prizepools and more legitimacy as a format is always welcome.

• Break between regular season and playoffs.

  • this is actually really important for planning and coordination, and can help bring hype to the playoff matches

• Refresh maps becoming more mainstream.

  • Who needs valve, when we can just do it ourselves? [insert thanos meme here]

I am very happy to see a lot of these results and optimism towards the HL team if they can properly push this format forward.

After much thought and with a heavy heart, I am sad to announce that I am ending support for the Invite STV Archive. This is primary due to a lack of personnel and my own time. The Archive will remain up on the Engineer.tf website, however we will no longer be updating it, including the remaining STVs from this past season.

Thank you all for your support thus far.

try this link instead: https://discord.gg/NSsXQJn

@bee what link are you clicking on?

After checking, you have never been banned from the discord, and according to logs, you left the server on your own.

You currently do not have your discord linked on your profile. You will need to link your discord to be able to use it. In the meantime, can you please give me your Discord username/ID so I can find you in the system

@Alto the only counter arguement I would state is that currently you only get 1.6 MP for a FFW, and then you get the rest of the points later at the end of the season if the teams cannot schedule a rematch for the rest of the MP.

so FFW do not punish you as hard in the rankings since you have less MP than a full FFW during the regular season scheduling.

Perhaps instead we can give full MP on the FFW, and allow a rematch to allow the FF team to “steal” back up to 1.4 MP? I don’t like this idea, but its the only one I could think of at the moment.

@FlipFTW said in Forums Feedback & Updates:

Is there an option to hide or ignore posts and categories of posts? Tools like “recent” are largely unusable for me because of how many LFT or LFP posts there are burying other topics.

To clarify - would an exclusive filter system (ignore category) be possible, or could filtered settings be saved?

Bottom right of each forum and sub forum. Keep in mind that you need to set each forum that receives posts to “not watching”. setting LFT won’t block posts from HL LFT or 6s LFT.

@tua said in Forums Feedback & Updates:

It’d be really cool if you could implement groups for like Former RGL Staff, maybe with their titles (though that might be too much work lol). That way people can know someone like Micah or I have a bit more info behind the scenes in regards to certain things compared to the average speculating layman.

that is something that is easy to do, it would take 5 minutes to create a forum group called “RGL Boomers” and add people in it with a badge. However its something that would need to be discussed and accepted internally.

@FlipFTW

@FlipFTW said in seasonal “points system sucks” thread:

(Can we please get post #'s on these forums?)

This something we can prob look at doing with the theme rework, but you can find posts already by just clicking on the time of the post, and looking at the post nav on the top bar.

@vibeisveryo said in Forums Feedback & Updates:

@Mothership and the behaviour can’t be changed?

Its most likely can, but it would need to be done through the forum’s theme.

@Pain-Seer said in S10 Analysis: Why Swiss shouldn't be used next season:

@Mothership I’d rather add in cascade and lakeside rather than borneo, it would keep it to 4 koth and 4 stopwatch

oh you right, but if we add them all in, 9 week season, 10 team invite, 10 team Advanced with RR. !!!

@vibeisveryo said in Forums Feedback & Updates:

Is there any reason clicking on a thread sends you to the latest post instead of the OP? It seems like this makes threads spiral away from the topic intended

that is just how the forum software works.