related to this, i think more new players might stick around if, for instance, under level 10, they are largely blocked from playing higher level players, 40+ for instance. it has got to be discouraging to be a noob ruthlessly pounded by people looking for a higher win rate.

for instance, many new players go to auto games, but a lot of very experienced players go there as well, matchups between the two are hardly fair.

(and i am saying this as one guilty of occasionally noob hunting)

1v1: 96 / 239 (40%)
guilty of noob hunting

related to this, i think more new players might stick around if, for instance, under level 10, they are largely blocked from playing higher level players, 40+ for instance. it has got to be discouraging to be a noob ruthlessly pounded by people looking for a higher win rate.

for instance, many new players go to auto games, but a lot of very experienced players go there as well, matchups between the two are hardly fair.

(and i am saying this as one guilty of occasionally noob hunting)

That could be a problem, however, if I want to play a match with friends I have just introduced to Warlight. Perhaps this would work for the auto games, however

yeah, the autogames are where i see it happen the most, newer players tend to not make their own games. perhaps if people below a certain win rate were paired with ais until their win rate rose again? People who win some of their games are probably ok, but some people are gonna be stuck with much worse win rate, and that has got to be frustrating, going without wins for a long time. after all, some noobs will be worse than others

Beginner players can't filter out high level players until about level 20. If you made that a starting feature, instead of a noob filter, that would help

There are already "Newbies welcome" auto games - perhaps it would only require an adjustment to the pre-requesites to joining those. Alts will be able to circumvent this and continue to be a source for frustration for new players of course...

perhaps if below a certain level, the prerequisites to join autogames with other players are tied to the user's win rate? not sure how hard this will be to code lol

i am not sure of the noob experiance with the new changes but maybe somehow have a way to label a game just for noobs. then while i search for a game i can see the games made for noobs. just make the map have certain requirements like the lotto to be a noob map. i also think a global chat would be a great help.