Multiple acc on ladder. Playing fair.

[Zinsmiter]

 

 

Want to try hard? use main account. Want to test/have fun? use main account! Why do you guys always want an easy way out? If you want to test stuff do so at the beginning of the season. Its a well known fact that the season lasts AT LEAST 1 month. That gives you plenty of time to experiment before actually aiming for a ladder spot. Want to preserve a good win/loss ratio (which, honestly, means nothing and is simply an ego/image thing)? Test teams with friends! I'm sure your guild must have competitive players who would pose a decent challenge compared to the random unranked opponent right? Besides, no one is saying "dont test or dont use the pokemon you like (who may not be the best fit for pvp)". Do so, but with one account.

 

As for the rule at the moment, I agree it isn't put in place in the best of ways. But then staff have acknowledged this and are working on a better way of enforcing it. Until then, we'll have to abide by the rules. Besides, if anyone does intentionally throw games like you said, and gets caught, they would have to face the consequences.

 

I don't know who "you guys" are. I represent only myself here. And i don't know what you think i'm trying to find an easy way out of. If anything, it's you who is trying to find an easy way in winning since you want to limit some players to one account.

 

Why should you tell me what to do? People can queue with different mentalities. Like many other games. On Pokemon Showdown it's common to make different accounts in order to play with different pokemon that are seen as less viable. I tried to say that i didn't only play different teams for doing cynical tests but it seems like no one got that point. Why should the time of the month decide when i should play what i want if i have time to play there? Why should i only be able to do what i want the first 3 weeks of the month or whatever if i wanna go for the ladder at the same time? And why should i have to contact other people personally and ask them to play with me? You don't know my relations with my guild or who i am or if i wanna use stuff and just queue in peace alone. You shouldn't decide any of this.

 

It's clear that we got entirely different opinions on this matter so let's just agree to disagree.

 

As for the rule, i'm just pointing out that there is a paradox where you get punished if you win and punished if you have to lose.

A staff member recently told another player that he had to drop his second account off the ladder right away, so he basically told him to lose intentionally (even though that staff member didn't read the rules properly since it states "at the end of the season" but w/e).

 

By "you guys" I am referring to everyone that wants this rule revoked. How on earth is making ladder more competitive by forcing people to use main teams making it easier for anyone to win? :|

 

No one is telling you not to queue. I was simply giving you work arounds to the rule, not telling you "what to do". Besides, this is a "Ranked" ladder. Ranked. It's supposed to be competitive. Not only does this rule enforce that it also brings some life to unranked. I'm not sure if you were around when we had only unranked battling (I think you were, you are an experienced player here anyway, no disrespect what so ever), it actually gave battle chat life and people communicated with each other more than for just trading.

 

I agree with the paradox and did hear of the incident... I do concede, it completely throws off any reason to have this rule. Surely you can't ask someone to lose on purpose... either enforce the rule to the point of "you were caught using two accounts on ladder, here's a temp ban" or dont enforce it at all.

 

Because if people could only use their main account to queue and they wanted to play less powerful teams it would be easier for everyone else since that person is no longer a top 25 ladder contender, which is also what happened in season 3 (or something like that, long time ago) when i wanted to play whatever i wanted over playing the team i had that won the most and i had no alt account.

 

I wanna see how well other teams i create do in the competitive environment without having to dump progress made with another team. Not goof around against opponents in unranked not taking the game seriously.

 

And yes i was around at that time.

 

Also, just to be clear. This isn't only about the current new rule. I wouldn't care if they chose to make it so alt accounts couldn't appear on ladder and wouldn't get any rewards.

It's about the suggestions made here for new rules made to ban people entirely from just queue'ing on an alternative account.