Having to play the global ladder with a "BSL-" tag in front of your name is a risk to battlenet players because anyone running klauncher can add your IP to the klauncher blacklist, and you will never match any klauncher users again. once added, klauncher automatically dodges when matching with you on bnet ladder (does not affect score).

my observation is that a lot of koreans just insta-blacklist anyone with the BSL- tag because they associate the tag with foreigners and/or lag.

this seems like an oversight. i recommend setting up BSL on shieldbattery instead of the global ladder.

players: you are basically permenantly handicapping/obstructing your ability to use matchmaking vs koreans on battlenet if you register a bnet account with a BSL tag. If you see that you match with someone but the races/map/player countdown splashscreen shows up blank, and you are returned to matchmaking, its happening to you.

Overall this is a great tourney and I love to see more BW content. Thanks Zzzero for all that you do.

FlaShFTW

United States9866 Posts

October 11 2024 15:43 GMT

#19

On October 11 2024 22:17 `Myst wrote:
Having to play the global ladder with a "BSL-" tag in front of your name is a risk to battlenet players because anyone running klauncher can add your IP to the klauncher blacklist, and you will never match any klauncher users again. once added, klauncher automatically dodges when matching with you on bnet ladder (does not affect score).

my observation is that a lot of koreans just insta-blacklist anyone with the BSL- tag because they associate the tag with foreigners and/or lag.

this seems like an oversight. i recommend setting up BSL on shieldbattery instead of the global ladder.

players: you are basically permenantly handicapping/obstructing your ability to use matchmaking vs koreans on battlenet if you register a bnet account with a BSL tag. If you see that you match with someone but the races/map/player countdown splashscreen shows up blank, and you are returned to matchmaking, its happening to you.

Overall this is a great tourney and I love to see more BW content. Thanks Zzzero for all that you do.

Shieldbattery is simply not used by enough people to make it the primary way to determine a ladder ranking, also the fact that if only BSL players showed up on shieldbattery, the ladder would be completely different, since it's a smaller eco system. Bnet ladder allows for us to play against random people and not have queue times exponentially long. Also, I don't find that every Korean blocks IPs/names. I've had many Koreans (unfortunately very BM) face me on ladder.

ztrgfhwetrw

8 Posts

October 11 2024 17:10 GMT

#20

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Excalibur_Z

United States12207 Posts

October 11 2024 22:23 GMT

#21

On October 12 2024 00:43 FlaShFTW wrote:

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Considering BSL is a closed tournament, your point about ShieldBattery being a more closed environment actually makes it more valuable for that purpose, since it would be primarily BSL players playing against other BSL players in a longform league. I'm also biased, but I'd like to see more activity on SB and "well nobody plays there so what's the point" is a negative snowball argument that I can't abide. SB already offers better latency and more features than Bnet, without the rampant abuse, issues, and downtime that plague Bnet.