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no, it applies to all bans

its possible you got this ban slightly before we changed policy. I dont recall the actual date.

Your next ban might be 7 day, or 14 day - if it ever happens youll know where you are at

Your next ban should not be a perma unless you do something especially bad - like hacking/cheating

Was it a deserter penalty? or maybe it was applied for longer before you noticed it

you can get shorter bans from dodging matches, this still lets you log into the game but you cant play pvp matches

for toxicity related offenses processed through the support team and reporting - the minimum punishment is a 7 day ban

did that happen to you recently? 3 day bans no longer exist in our punishment structure. the minimum ban we currently apply is 7 days

Curious as to how youve chosen to define "flop"

for the last 14 days, across conquest, ranked conquest, arena, joust - the most played season 8 gods are (in order) (and the order does not change when you sort by conquest only btw)

1. Cliodhna (most played)

2. Gilgamesh

3. Charybdis

4. Morgan Le Fay

5. Tiamat (least played)

6. Atlas (Not released)

So she is getting more play right now than Tiamat and Morgan, which implies to me that shes not really a flop at all. Her win% is a little low, but at SPL shes been decently prioritized. There isnt really an easy way to measure all of a gods' metrics for one single "success" data point though, gods can often just excel at some things and struggle at others.

I'd agree that she did have a rough release due to bugs, and the specific community here on reddit seems to have certain feelings toward her - but in general she is holding...

The minimum penalty a player can get right now is a 7 day ban - this is the first offense suspension - if you see this popup then the minimum penalty imposed on the player was a 7 day ban

this message should only display for

• 7 day ban

• 14 day ban

• Perma ban

The message will show the same text regardless of which punishment was applied.

response to these types of comments has been provided before, such as this example:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Smite/comments/qlwohd/the_healing_problem/hj60rgj/

the important part within that link:

But in general - the only thing worse than squishy healers would be tanky healers. Currently in SMITE healing scales off power intentionally to create this high risk high reward scenario. Mages like Hel and Aphrodite are designed to specifically out-heal supports like Sylvanus and Yemoja.

We discussed this one heavily with the smite pro players and came to a few important conclusions.

• this trick is not hard to do. It's simply a knowledge gate. As long as you know it exists you can use it.

• it was rarely used on players , so you could say that's the skill element, but mostly this just gave Terra far better lane and jungle clear than intended.

• the character is most likely going to still be comp viable even with this nerf

In addition to those points, I also designed this goddess and I consider this effect specifically against her design intent. The stones are essentially consumables and players have to choose which option they want. Being able to have both invalidates that.

It seems like there's a good bit of discussion on this one but I would not expect to ever bring this back on Terra.

We are actually quite happy with Charybdis! She is holding popularity well since her release and we have skins in progress for her.

She is a difficult character to skin because of the maw, and we had an absolutely stacked fall with transformers, iroh, and the other new gods so we just had to plan her first skin out a bit further.

Charybdis skins are coming, don't worry!

MMR Resets for players 2750 or higher back to 2750 (This used to be 2400 but top end players felt their matches were too volatile at 2400)

Rank Resets for D1, Masters, GM

note that this reset only affects players over Diamond 1

So if you arent D1, Master, or Grandmaster - feel free to play all day with no worries

CURSED RATATOSKR

if its not in your account history then it was likely purchased on a different account - support should get back to you soon and will be able to help you more than i can - good luck, welcome back!

The only reason an account should be wiped intentionally was due to linking/relinking - in order to prevent abuse cases of stacking multiple accounts content together

Its possible your old account was not linked to steam, and thus you arent getting the content

Id advise you to fill out a support ticket here: https://www.hirezstudios.com/support/

or check your account on the website to make sure its the proper login and youde also be able to see your purchase history on the website to ensure it has the content youre referring to.

Normal Mode MMR never resets (ever)

Ranked MMR Only resets at Diamond 1, Masters, and Grandmasters every 4 months on patch day (every battle pass patch)

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.

As to OPs analysis and suggestions related ...

just link em back to this!

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...