The second installment of my Grinding Season Bridge Suggestions, this is yet another simple idea. Just hide players’ levels in lobbies (only for Bridge) to prevent queue dodging.
Just today out of the 30 or so games I played, I had at least 20 players leave the lobby after seeing my level as I don’t usually try to hide my level (17 at the moment), and this kept my wait time much longer than I’d like. This could also make games much less predictable as you have no idea how good a player might be e.g. you could be playing someone with a Hive-provided skin and think they’ll be trash and then get absolutely destroyed, or vice-versa.
I think the idea of having it as a toggle is great, as you could flex your level if you want to.
In my opinion this should only be in Bridge if it’s not a toggle, as Bridge is the only really competitive game.
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I think the best way to go about it is to finally add a toggles item in your hotbar in hubs, and put the option to disable showing your level in pvp games. Other games like mm people don’t care about levels much, but most players in pvp games do. So theres not much of a need to add it to non pvp games, besides consistency. Toggles finally having an item would be amazing since they keep adding more options in it, but most players don’t know about it.
Wait… is that toggle being able to see other people’s level or just show your own level to flex. If its just being able to see other’s levels, its not going to do anything. There will still be queue dodgers. Flexing would be a option since people are ready for the queue dodgers.
For the sake of trying to create a counterargument, it would ruin selecting your opponent which is kind of a downside. However, I think any benefits greatly outweigh this.
The actual problem is that you’re going against low level players who stand no chance, and that happens because there aren’t enough players to have actual matchmaking.
This is because no one wants to play the bridge, so if anything they should just remove it from the hive.
Levels should always be visible because of transparency, and i’d rather not see them set such a bad precedent because of a dead gamemode
Why is everyone getting banned? Also back on topic so i dont go into the hole again: maybe it could have the §k for the level and maybe a toggle to hide other players levels or make everyone not see yours regardless of their settings
Im voting because alot of other people are but I will say i suck at pvp so I won’t be affected by this since im not gonna play bridge unless im playing duos with xxgodtierpvper5000xx to carry me
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