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I'm dissapointed to hear that you feel abandoned as a player. I think we have some of the most frequent and honest dev to player communications in the entire industry and we work hard to keep that communication going strong.

Healing in SMITE certainly is a complicated concept that brings up lots of emotions, can effect multiple design goals, and can have a big impact on balance.

Season 8 saw some of the most intense healing changes in SMITE history, and OP even cites our communications from the patch notes and previous reddit threads on the topic.

We also have adjusted various healers and healing items throughout the year, each paired with dev communications.

Healing is obviously coming back again here at the end of the season, and just because it wasn't on patch notes last week doesnt mean we dont see or dont care. It certainly looks like it will be discussed on next the patch notes.

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We should not think of Ranked vs Normal as "good" vs "bad". The actual difference is the type of experience you want:

• picks and bans vs blind pick
• having a visible rating experience vs an invisible one

Its up to players to decide which of this is good or bad.

Normal matches are actually more competitive in many cases. There are a lot more players, so MMR ranges are much closer. High MMR Normal Conquest is where some of the best SMITE players in the game reside. They just are turned away from ranked because of the wait times, the lobby times, pick/bans, or simply just don't want to have a rating assigned to their play.

So, why even have ranked? Because people want it. The people who do want those 2 features above are a smaller population, but a very vocal and engaged one. Ranked is better for preparing for competitive play and better for streaming because viewers appreciate the higher stakes of a visible rating system.

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Yes your wording is wrong.

Specifically on these points:

• Timed Queues vs Standard Queues are not necessarily shorter vs longer, thats entirely up to us to choose the Timed Queue time and the Standard Force time (which have similar effects)
• You labeled one as "better matchmaking" and "worse matchmaking" which is also untrue based on the description I just provided. Both of these require more wait time to have better matchmaking. This is also just a specifically incorrect way to run a poll, there's no way you can value these results with that wording.

In high population environments, both are largely the same, except that Standard Queues have less transparency in the system.

In bad situations, these two have different fail cases.

• Standard Queues (or unbreakable MMR requirements) - the fail case is that you do not play the game. You wait for a very long time or potentially a match never actually fires - so we do en...

This is a strange way to word the poll which will likely lead to biased results.

First off, lets align on terminology just to simplify things a bit

• Timed Queues (count down, same duration every time)
• Standard Queues (count up, variable duration)

These both can have issues depending on the configuration and the population, its inaccurate to state that Standard Queues are longer, better, or have less autofill. All three of those factors depend on the population and the "good" match threshold, not the queue type.

The differences between the two are mostly perception base, not matchmaking quality based. Both can be configured to wait longer for better match, both can break down and give bad matches in low population times.

Standard Queues also had a "match force time" by the way - which would trigger if the queue reached a point we specifically selected as "excessively long" and it would just give you the best match it cou...

We had that type of queue for many years. Players were generally unsatisfied with it. Its not that hard to implement as we've had them before, so we could re-enable them. Weve actually posed this question to the community before and it was pretty unanimously struck down.

Timed queues have 2 main advantages

1. players know exactly when the queue will be ready
2. its very easy to understand what the threshold is for players in a match - its exactly the best people we have at the time the queue pops

The old type of queues were unpredictable in timing and in matchmaking, and wouldnt solve for an extreme low pop issue such as this.

You're being weirdly overdefensive over something so stupid. The dude was happy that he has the skin and you just decided to insult him on a financial basis for literally no reason. Like why?

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We have investigated many reports just like this one and the result is always the same - These are the only 10 players in the queue for that region on that mode at that time. Here is how Ranked matchmaking works:

1. the queue pops
2. all players who are in the queue are ordered by MMR from top to bottom, best to worst
3. matches get made from the top down - best 10 players are match 1, players 11-20 are match 2, etc (with some departing from this strict list based on pre-made parties or people who were already rolled over once before)
4. We always give a match to the best players (top10)
5. Players can be rolled over to wait again - "more time is needed to find you a match" - this can happen anywhere down the list depending on where bad MMR gaps are, but we never roll over the top 10, intentionally (see below)
6. Once the 10 players are selected, then they are split between Order and Chaos to have the closest average MMR between the 5 player...

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