I am failing to see how the ELO reduction system is positive. Cheats can still prosper and beat the system which they always will, while the top and most active players get absolutely battered. The player pools simply aren't big enough to justify this, and the reducers are way too harsh and sudden. It actively discourages people from playing games.I am actively avoiding playing Heat: Pedal to the Medal at the minute, because nearly any race I play in an open field I will have the ELO reducer reduced to 0 on 1-2 players, it makes these races an enormously negative proposition. You basically encourage behaviour that you play for 1 week then stop playing for a month so all your ELO reducers disappear.
And to emphasise all this is no fault of the players, it's literally impossible for anyone active to avoid playing the same players over and over, the player pools aren't big enough for the vast majority of games to do so, and it's laughable you start getting ELO reduced straight away, and it's reduced to 0 after 7 wins, these sort of streaks would occur all the time even if 2 players were matched 50:50.
Is this really a system we want, one that actively discourages players actually playing games? You actively risk killing traffic in the long term as nobody wants to be an active player in this system.
