People can still private whisper ingame by counting downwards, so hidding the colours INGAME in the menu would do us all alot better service. Also feels like the games are filling up slower :>
But who cares about whispering? The purpose of hidden names is to make avoiding and hunting players not possible, thats all.
Also, please change hidden names back to just Hidden + optionally server, nationality isnt needed at all
I dont get why you see it as such a problem for people knowing that someone is ingame. The preteaming will be just as difficult with hidden colours, as with hidden names, in a very small way actually harder since you can still count downwards with the colours still showing ingame IN the game menu. And the private whispering is just stupid, you might aswell revoke the unknown names so people can whisper in a normal way then. I dont see any reason for private chat to exist, or to make it easier for it to exist. If you wanna peace someone, then peace someone. Hit Enter and write "peace x?". If you are to pussy to hit a larger guy, and dont wanna talk with the other smaller powers in the normal chat to make you less of a "suicide" target to the big guy for starting the allaince, then just wait it out abit and backstabb. If the guy already is 40-50% world control, you wont have any other option than to gangbang him anyhow, unless you play with people who already hate you, or dont know what to do, private whispers wont help you in anyway.
The only time private whisper helps, is when you wanna team up on a person, that you usually never been in fight with before, just to gain territory. Which, in a way, is abit unorthodox. Its fine to backstabb someone, this is risk, but to through private whispers prepare for tens of minutes to annhiliate a person is very sleazy, and if preteaming is bannable, i dont get why private whispers differs in this regard, its a chickens way to not even talk someone into attacking with you in normal chat, but too at the same time say "3,2,1 - attack that guy in private" is the true essence of backstabbing. The last time you might wanna team up on someone, and you already hate a person, you might aswell search allies in the general chat, instead of private chatting 3 different people for help, usually from my experience whispering the wrong guy, or more.
The hunting down big names, as said i dont see where the problem lies here. If that person is a good player, and say overexpand extremly fast, he will normally get teamed up on regardless. If the person is rolling around with a 3 KD, he will proberly either win regardless, or be teamed up anyhow as said once he gets 2 big.
If you just hide the colour, it will prevent anyone from knowing who anyone is, since after the randomizing of colours, noone will be able to count downwards, it just wont be possible to know for sure who anyone is. The only way you can know, is through guesswork, and most people who are high ranked in this custom game are sleazy backstabbers anyhow, so they sure know how to stay low(not overexpanding) or make too many enemies.
With this change, there is one reason less, not a full arguement, but a reason, to not even have a community, since if you dont even get the familarity of getting abit of a heads up of how fun the game is gonna be beforehand in the lobby, know what people are around, where is the community feeling then. As it is now, the only way to get to know what player you just killed, is by people leaving the game, if this even shows who left the game, im not certain if the "player 1" says this in general or not. Regardless you usually dont even get to see the nickname of the winner, unless you either wait the 20 minutes out when 2 players are left(i think) or if you go to the homepage and check the ranking. "player7 has been eliminated". It becomes just grinding, no competition between the games.
The people who really care about NOT facing any real opposition at all anyway, will be making 1 million new accounts whenever they loose anyhow, so they can get their shiny x/0 win/los stats. If people are doing it purely for rank, and can get high ranked on the same account by just doing 16 games, in a late season, its proberly something wrong with the ranking system, and not a problem with people only avoiding anyone they deem worthy or are scared of.
The ranking system tho, is improving alot with the different rank points u get, depending on what kind of ranked players you are facing tho, so why not make it just not worth it to avoid every game, make it so people have to face other people than ONLY the ones who got 0/56 in stats. That would solve the hide and seek game some people like to play, not making me all worked up around me not seeing lobby names
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