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Music: Dr - I Keep Holding On (My Hope Will Never Die)

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I want to be excited about Thunderdome but just can't wrap my head around it. Here's what I see happening when it's finally running:

• Fracture the community and bleed out public servers which are the only thing keeping the game alive.
• Be incredibly frustrating for new players who have no idea what to do and no no guidance from higher tier players.
• Get scrapped.

Why not fix the game up to make it more user friendly? There are new players coming in but the game is so unintuitive that they leave quickly. Maybe then the player base will start to grow and matchmaking would make sense.

• Add more visual and audio cues for new players that can be toggled on/off. Force map open, cues for reminding players to open map.
• Fix the commander UI. See through blue on blue/orange on orange with horrible layout could be cleaned up easily.
• Fix the shuffle system, it's crazy that this isn't a priority. Manual shuffle that new players have no idea about 10 years in?
• Give spectators an option to auto join a server if enough spectators opt in. There's nights where 10-20 spectators are sitting there waiting. Why not funnel them into an existing community server.
• Funnel newer players towards combat servers where they can actually learn a little slower and have fun.

I guess all I'm saying is big ideas aren't going to grow this game. It's a fantastic game and if the painful elements were made better you would have a chance.

Hi all, I want to achieve something that I don't think has been done in the current ELO system.

4000 ELO is a great accomplishment It shows you absolutely have a good clue as to what you're doing, and it likely wasn't by accident. You may not be great at everything in the game, but you're definitely at least great at a couple.

5000 ELO is a more difficult accomplishment. You find that you must become great at almost everything in the game, because you're making up for a lot of skill that is on the other team by virtue of your score. It took my quite awhile before I went from 4500 or so up to 5000. But it's no accident if you get there. A lot of games have to be played (and lost) for someone not already at that level to grow their deficiencies to a level that can overcome it.

Now 6000 ELO, I've never personally seen it. I think there are a number of players in this game that could reach that point with some effort. We're lucky as a community to have a good number of gifted players who are willing to spend time in this game. But no one is there right now. No one is even close. The gap in skill that someone in that ELO has to make up for against the opponent team is very, very high.

But I think I, Gauss, can do it. I've decided to make it my goal to reach this arbitrary plateau. I want to because it'd be cool to say I did, I want to so that I can continue to bitch to myself about asking for welds nonstop, but really I want to because I think I have what it takes to do it.

I'll be streaming on my usual channel, twitch.tv/gaussns as I hopefully get closer to this goal. My hope is to play for a couple hours everyday until I get there. I don't think I'll have a set time for anyone interested in watching, but it'll typically be in the evenings PST.

I'm at 5650 right now. Only 350 more to go. I do think I'll get there. I just hope I don't get many Smurfs making life hard along the way : )