I enjoy the Rebellion beta very much so far but now that the Steam account is bound to your stats (unlike Trinity, where you could create as many profiles as you want). In the old days of the original SoaSE I used to play a lot of 2v2 teaming up with a mate. We were friendly towards other players and weren't even playing that good. Soon we were accumulating a lot of wins and almost never lost. People were afraid of our W-D ratio and often left our games right away. So we started to use fresh profiles from time to time so people would play with us more often.
As you all know, the Sins multiplayer community is still rather small. Because it took an insanely long time to get matches going we quit playing after some months. We would love to start again now. But with the same old stats system around I'm really afraid that we end up just like we did some years ago. So...
Suggestion #1: Hide the losses from the public. W-L ratio won't scare people away.
Suggestion #2: Only show the number of matches played. Newbies will be accepted after playing some games.
Suggestion #3: Hide all stats. People won't kick noobs and players wouldn't be scared of each other (I don't think that the community can afford to do so anyway because of its size).
Suggestion #4: Allow alternative profiles again. I guess I don't have to explain.
Also, no other game these days relies on such a stats system. What do you think about this issue?
