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Playing Devil’s Advocate for a moment, I’m not sure how practical the huge server matches are for a very high skill ceiling game like this when it comes to getting new players. Huge player counts in a game makes it impractical to do skill-based matchmaking, and without SBMM, people who’ve been playing Tribes for literal decades will just massacre new players, who will then promptly leave.
You could probably still get a certain amount of hardcore Tribes players that way, so having it as an option for community servers is fine, but I dunno if that would work for the mass market at all.
Playing Devil’s Advocate for a moment, I’m not sure how practical the huge server matches are for a very high skill ceiling game like this when it comes to getting new players. Huge player counts in a game makes it impractical to do skill-based matchmaking, and without SBMM, people who’ve been playing Tribes for literal decades will just massacre new players, who will then promptly leave.
You could probably still get a certain amount of hardcore Tribes players that way, so having it as an option for community servers is fine, but I dunno if that would work for the mass market at all.