Making the premade point-system better and harder to exploit

[Chilla]

With that said, of course people are going to call out these players who dodge and only get their rating off of non-pvpers who decided to try LP for a day. It's cheesy, disgraceful to light party and PvP as a whole, and frustrating to everyone else who wants to have actual PvP matches but can't because the "#1 team" dodges all day long.

I think one of the main problems here, as Koltik mentioned, are players who exploit the system by farming an absurd amount of points by exclusively fighting non-experienced players while actively dodging real teams through constant monitoring of player activity on other servers.

It completely invalidates the intended purpose of the current ranking system when the highest ranked players point gains have entirely been from farming non-experienced teams 24/7.

If Stormblood ends up having the same ranking system as now, then Light Party rewards should indeed be removed if Square Enix cannot actively police the system.

[Wegente]

I think one of the main problems here, as Koltik mentioned, are players who exploit the system by farming an absurd amount of points by exclusively fighting non-experienced players

This is indeed one of the biggest issues in the Light Party queue.

But what could be done about it? You can't really prevent "Garo" premades from queueing up, or players new to PvP from trying the mode in the first place (ironically, it's the opposite - if more and more players queued, the matchmaking would balance itself out on its own).
The only two solutions I can think of would be to either:

- "lock out" the unranked players from the rest, and thus basically letting them play only against other unranked players. But this would be a pain for them, because queues would be even longer, basically screwing over anyone who starts the season late

- introduce a limit to the amount of times you can face the same team in a row (or possibly to how many times you can win against the same team in a row, so basically if you won like 5x matches against a certain team, you would have to wait a while before being able to play with them again)

Sadly, due to the extremely low playerbase of Light Party it's very hard to stop the "Garo farmers". In the long run, those who start playing early in the season and queue more often than the others will have an edge over their opponents in terms of points.