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infinity21 *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada6683 Posts
September 05 2010 21:52 GMT
#21
On September 06 2010 05:35 Alou wrote:
It's a statistic. Your 1v1 rating should really not make you choose to only play 1 race. Just play and enjoy.

I want to stay in the top 200 NA and play in that pro league
Official Entusman #21
Klive5ive
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom6056 Posts
September 05 2010 21:53 GMT
#22
Yeah it is annoying.
I wouldn't mind playing a different race but I don't want to play people miles better than me for ages until I get up to the level of my Zerg.
Don't hate the player - Hate the game
Deleted User 47542
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
1484 Posts
September 05 2010 21:56 GMT
#23
Agreed with op, there's no way I can offrace on my ladder without losing every single game. Customs suck for practicing offraces T.T
Piy
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Scotland3152 Posts
September 05 2010 21:58 GMT
#24
They should really do this imo
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Shield
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Bulgaria4824 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-05 22:04:33
September 05 2010 22:03 GMT
#25
Poll: New qualifying rounds per new race?

Yes, you should do new 5 qualifying rounds per new race (80)
 
93%

No, it should stay the way it is (5)
 
6%

I don't care (1)
 
1%

86 total votes

Your vote: New qualifying rounds per new race?

(Vote): Yes, you should do new 5 qualifying rounds per new race
(Vote): No, it should stay the way it is
(Vote): I don't care

Karthane
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1183 Posts
September 05 2010 22:04 GMT
#26
I def think this should be implemented. I constantly switch between races and i feel that is the only reason that im not a higher ranking
FlamingTurd
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1059 Posts
September 05 2010 22:11 GMT
#27
I would love if u could get different ratings for different races. Would give u a huge desire to try new things.
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Aegeis
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1619 Posts
September 05 2010 22:12 GMT
#28
4 divisions for the 4 different race options simple as that
"Skills to pay the bills" - Artosis, https://twitter.com/AegeisSC2 ,http://www.tumblr.com/blog/socal-esports
Mike941
Profile Joined December 2008
United States98 Posts
September 05 2010 22:15 GMT
#29
Yea the OPs idea would be really nice.
Misanthrope
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States924 Posts
September 05 2010 22:17 GMT
#30
We need separate stats for each race.
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Shield
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Bulgaria4824 Posts
September 05 2010 22:18 GMT
#31
On September 06 2010 07:11 FlamingTurd wrote:
I would love if u could get different ratings for different races. Would give u a huge desire to try new things.

Agreed. The goal is to spread the word to Blizzard I guess.
Eatme
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
Switzerland3919 Posts
September 05 2010 22:20 GMT
#32
I think you should be able to have ~3 "accs" bound to your profile. I mean the qualifying rounds and general ladder layout works decent enough so you cant really smurf. I have no idea why blizzard didnt implement this in the first place. Or well they dont even have cross realm play >_<
I have the best fucking lawyers in the country including the man they call the Malmis.
pOOdle
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom5 Posts
September 05 2010 22:22 GMT
#33
It would be great to get to play the off-races, at pretty much every level of play. Alot of new people seem to go terran because of the single player, and then stick with only because they're used to that race, and the learning curve for multiplayer being significantly steeper (and if you have just learn't one whole race for the single player, your less inclined to start over). Adding off-races allows them to move into different races without it being so punishing.


On September 06 2010 05:47 ShoeFactory wrote:
If this was possible, I would let my friends play on my account on an off race if they didn't want to pay for the game.

I think this is the reason why blizzard doesn't want to implement it.


Blizzard should just limit the number of accounts to 3 or 4, that should solve that pretty easily.
Chronocide
Profile Joined August 2007
United States126 Posts
September 05 2010 22:27 GMT
#34
it's set up this way because blizz wants one game per person. If each race had it's own rating, people would work out agreements to share an account with each person playing a different race. Like brothers or roommates or something like that. I'm 100% certain that is why it's not implemented this way.

Obviously I think it's terrible, but yeah.

As for other people replying by saying that you should just play anyways, my problem with that is a) as you said it sucks to play an off race on diamond level, but also b) if you want to play in most tournaments you need to have a diamond level account.
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Terranist
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2496 Posts
September 05 2010 22:30 GMT
#35
welcome and much needed change. i think it's stupid i have to tank all the hard work i put climbing a ladder just to learn a new race that i may not stick with. either seperate the ladder or give a bonus pool for offraces.
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lindn
Profile Joined July 2010
Sweden833 Posts
September 05 2010 22:33 GMT
#36
solution to the problem:

1. get a pracc partner
2. pracc with him
3. ???
4. start playing league matches with that race once you feel comfortable with them.

i myself don't care about rating since all it does is put me in games against people of equal skill. played a bunch o terran games and it went fine as long as i knew what to do
theorybiscuit
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada117 Posts
September 05 2010 22:38 GMT
#37
Unless you're diamond in every other bracked (2v2, 3v3, 4v4) you could do some of those while you're getting your feet under you. That's what I did when I switched from T to Z.

On a side note, if you do pick Z, you get the sweet Infested Colonist portrait when you win 25 games.
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. ~Jef Mallett
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17294 Posts
September 05 2010 22:41 GMT
#38
I recall this issue being brought up in Beta with a "we'll look into it" response. Obviously, they didn't do anything about it.

It does suck having to completely tank your rating to offrace, though. Whenever you decide to go back to your main race you'll have to play 20+ games just to get back to your appropriate rating where you're facing a reasonable challenge.
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Cohedra
Profile Joined July 2010
United States51 Posts
September 05 2010 22:46 GMT
#39
Would be nice, but seems doubtful at this point. There are several ways you can work around this though.

1.) Use a "Guest Pass" - if after 8 hours of laddering with an off-race you aren't either bored of it or low diamond quality, I don't know what to tell you.

2.) Find a practice partner - Can play tons of games, just find someone of appropriate skill level. You won't lose any ladder ranking, and once you're confident you can go back to your ladder account.

3.) Find a friend who bought the game, but stopped playing - I personally do this, he played the campaign and hasn't logged on since. Make his bnet account your "Off-race ladder account".
happyness
Profile Joined June 2010
United States2400 Posts
September 05 2010 22:47 GMT
#40
I switched from protoss to terran, lost a ton of games, lost my over 50 percent winning record, and was demoted to platinum. But who cares? I've been working my way back up, and now I can say I'm as good as terran as I am at protoss (at least I think).

Really, over worrying about your record and what league your in means you care too much what other people think of you. I'm just trying to improve my game and the matchmaking system does a pretty good job at matching me to people of the same skill level.
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