@Duke Garland: Actually, there is no human factor. It automatically goes through as soon as you do the Ticket. It is still a button, it's just hidden in the Support Ticket thing.
Everything with an elo system uses the rule of great numbers. The more games you play, the closer you get to your true rating. If you're stuck somewhere, it's your true rating. It's that easy.
@Henry Sagehorn: I got 1200h of dota, but most of these are pubs and bots match. I've had matches where everyone was bad but a single carry farmed like hell and single handedly won. However, success rate on matches where everyone is playing good but your carry is terrible is low...
@Raxyz: Even if you play Carry, you are depending on what people you get. For example the people who just random and no one plays a support. Then you are pretty much fucked. And I know what I am talking, stuck on 2,5k MMR, because I started playing ~700 h ago, which much lesser EXP. Group is 3,5k :(
In the end you're stuck with being able to find a team willing to work cooperatively, or a good Hard Carry player that end the match by himself. Of course, not feeding and not flaming helps, but MMR is all down to what kind of players you'll get on your team if you don't play carry.
And about the MMR, I'm currently at 2100. My favourite role is sup or initiator. I hate the whole farming idea and those two kinds of heroes can make a defference in a match even without farming. So I play CM, Keeper, Daz, Tusk, Centaur, etc. That's not good to your MMR since you still need good HC
@Jo Pereira: Wait, how does DP and Nyx have been nerfed? Nyx got an awesome Agh upgrade and haven't had any major damage reduction. DP too, now with octarine core is tankier than ever.
@Jo Pereira: Hmm, well although I haven't played NP all that much, if Pyrion Flax wasn't lying in the following guide then your money worries should be a thing of the past! ^_^
normal MM is independent to ranked MM, but it makes use of the same ranking point system in matching with other people, its just not visible.
pretty much your MMR is the same in both until you start calibrating for ranked, then the two get separated into different ranks.
@MangoMaster4: Actually the solo MMR is a lot more meaningful than the party (or team) MMR.
Playing with friends that are considerably higher or lower in skill than oneself will result in a score that doesn't really represent one's level.
Solo matchmaking works the same for everyone, though.
I'm perfectly happy with my mmr where it is. It's not so low as to always be with insane noobs, but not too high to be skilled past me. I guess if I ever had the time for more than a match or two a day I might try to raise my mmr, but for now, I'm fine with it.
Kilgore we need to raise the max character limit because of you.
Let me give you my version of ranking up in moba games solo. It takes time, but it does happen if you're good enough. All you need to consistently do is not fuck up.
The thing is that solo MMR doesn't mean anything in team games.
Fwosh (whose Dota parody videos I've linked to here in the past) has said she never queues for solo ranked and just focuses on party MMR. I think she has the right idea: find four people you know you can count on and always play ranked with them, instead of taking your chances with solo.
My experience has been that raising solo MMR is a long, slow process. Sometimes the awful players end up on the other team, and sometimes they end up on yours. Sometimes the good players end up on the other team, and sometimes they end up on yours. There's a lot of up and down.
I'm curious Jo: how much luck did you have raising your solo MMR and how long did it take? I ask because I remember you mentioning you'd been on a losing streak and lost a lot of MMR a little while ago, before you discovered Lina and began winning again.
People have been buying low digit steam accounts for bragging rights in the past. I have two, one for me and another for my siblings. The newest account just turned 8 years old. About once a month we get offers to buy them, I always pass.
You currently see this in HotS, using far better players to team with you in pre-made hero league matches to boost your HL rank. Partly because Blizzards matching making system is so horrendous.
People who buy accounts don't actually play those accounts. They just have them to show off with profile Pics. Instead they turn right back around and "smerf", while at the same time bragging how their other account is super power.
Refund is not a button, though, it's a help ticket. And that's good, because it will discourage the outrageous abuses by including a human factor. Maybe the person will check if you've just farmed the trading cards and want a refund now.
