Question to players

[Darrcyphfeid]

How exactly would you "troll the crap out of" anyone without tanking your rank and dropping to a lower tier?

If there are only 3 ranks, for example, there's still going to be a massive gulf in player skill between the highest and lowest player in any given rank. Especially in gold, because people are constantly blowing SE's expectations out of the water. A sea of Gold+++ tier ratings would require, most likely, an utterly ridiculous number of poor/trolling performances to get dropped down.

Alternatively, your rank is based on only your last X number of runs. But even that would probably be open to griefing (no long-term consequences) and probably isn't what most people in favor of the two systems currently presented would want.

I believe the bottom line of what the OP was getting at is "would you be ok with being matched only with players with your amount of skill/knowledge/effort put in"? I know a lot of people I've run into feel like they play "well enough" and while they admit there is room for improvement they don't feel like they should bother doing more than their definition of "well enough".

Give me a scoreboard or a parser with a dedicated lobby for this and I'll consider hopping in. If it's something that's intentionally meant to be a competition, instead of just making life miserable for lesser skilled/dedicated players, I wouldn't be opposed to it and would play around with it from time to time when in the mood. It's about the only excitement I get out of EX Roulette beyond the first run of the dungeon anyway - playing with enmity meters, that is, since I'm a PS4 slob and can't parse anything myself.