Hello - i am a two day old Demigod, enjoying myself quite a bit with this game. I never played Dota, and was generally quite bad at RTS games which require much micro management. What im trying to get across here is, im a newbie.
Obviously, i enjoy playing against others, but i find it quite difficult to get into a "fair" game. It seems that games stating they are for newbies is a magnet to power hungry people, just waiting for someone to demolish, or at the very least, its quite impossible to know who you are signing up against, and suddenly you find yourself against a vent coordinated team of awesomeness, and you're struggling for 30 minutes to survive a game.
What i dont understand is why there isn't any ingame listings of peoples ratings (are there even ratings at all? If not, they should be made 
). Then when you make a game, you could specify a max rating to work towards only fightning people on your same skill level. When you win a game, you get rating, dependant on what kind of ratings you beat (meaning, the higher the opponent compared to you and your team, the more rating) and when you lose a match, you lose rating aswell.
This game is fun, but its not very forgiving for new players - no tutorial, no way to try out the characters (unless you make 8 single player games and read through their skills) and no way to ensure that you will end up against people on your same skill level. An ingame rating system, and a way to specify rating requirements for a game would help the newbies, but also add a level of competition for the pro's. You could even add favor like items that you could only buy if you have high rating,
