Ordered Titan Divisions

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(07-17-2012 07:34 PM)calmon Wrote:  

(07-17-2012 06:55 PM)Fluffysox Wrote:  I totally think Harti didn't mention this in like 50 other threads aswell, that DIVISIONS AREN'T MEANT TO SEPARATE SKILL FURTHER THAN LEAGUES DO

Edit: you beat me kamikaze >:o

Well on top of the leagues having something like this is a nice feature. SC2 has it and there is at least no reason to not even considering it.

I suggested '1st Division' instead of 'Top-ofTop-League' just because it makes technically less sense to have another league instead of just a division or like I suggested ordered divisions in titan league (<- only titan, because it makes indeed not much sense in lower leagues).

The main "problem" starts when the difference between the points goes to far away inside the division but the Top has no chance to promote away like the top players can do in other leagues. At this point the division lacks the information/competition/whatever you usually would love to have.

Outwitters actually use to have 'tiered' divisions similar to SC2 early on in beta. But like Sc2, there was no labeling to tell you if you were in the 'top tier' division of that league or 'bottom tier'. Since player skill in a league largely varied (from the bottom threshold to the top) it made sense to try to sub-divide that group even further so that the ladders would be a bit more competitive (due to the volume of users). It was mostly for division grouping on the back end, and not really a visible thing to the user.

Whether we enable this again or not depends on league size/active users, and if we do, it'll probably be transparent to the user and most likely only apply to bottom/mid tier leagues. As for making points competitive and handling inflation, we will address it but it'll be in a season 2 of league play.