Because I'd rather not make a new thread on this
Division Restricted Wars: I understand newer people want to improve or learn the game, so finding a lower level early on is fine, but whats the point in being an established team for more than 6 months and you're only looking for division restricted wars, all it does it make sure that teams never really improve, and the game will stay the way it is. Back when I played MKW in 2011-2014ish, it was so fun being like a d3 player but warring the higher ranked teams in D1, because it was a challenge, and even though I kinda expected to get smacked, I always thought you could do something, because its Mario Kart and shock remains broken.
Probably the most tilting thing to me because the excuse "would rather not get smacked by a d1 and even d2 (???) team is so annoying to me lol
I will start off with that quote from Nato, who would rather not take a thread about this, so I will do it.
For those who are in the community for years, you definitely noticed that there is a (new) trend in the last months/(the last year?) to only look for division restricted wars in war chat.
That wasn't the case in the beginning of MK8d, and on the past games. Actually, back in the days, it was so rare to see clans looking for Division Restricted wars. The fact there are more teams than ever on the game (we reached the largest amount of inscription in a MK tournament recently) could explain this change, but I want to address some words about this recent trend because I think there are good points about it, but also bad points.
Nato's quote above illustrate quite well a bad point about it. As a mid/low division clan, I think this is good to play most of your matches against teams of your skill level, but you should never forget that playing sometimes against an opponent of an higher skill range than you makes it a challenge for your team, and you can learn and see different ways to play. Of course, if you spend the war complaining about your opponents' luck and you keep your eyes closed on what actually happened during the match, this is useless for you.
From a personal experience, my team was in Division 3 in the last season, and I always try to have around 25% of our matches played against (much) stronger opponents than us. Fixing realistic objectives during the match can help to make the match more enjoyable too (for example: winning 4 races, trying to do a better 4-race-GP than the last one). I also think this is not healthy to play against (much) weaker teams more often than (much) stronger teams, and I try to make sure the former ratio is less than the latter one. If you actually have pleasure to win by a lot against weaker teams than your team, and you keep declining higher teams wars, I will say that it is problematic and unhealthy for your team progress.
However, there can be good reasons for weaker teams to decline wars against stronger teams. When I ask why a team doesn't want to face us, they often bring the point that their players will get discouraged if they lose by a lot. I can understand and I acknowledge that playing too often against stronger teams is unhealthy for the team's moral too, which is why I think the 25% ratio I mentioned in the paragraph above is a honest and realistic number that every teams that wants to progress should aim.
Another reason I see is the stronger teams making fun of the weaker teams after a match. I can understand how terrible you feel when you just got crushed and your opponents trashtalked you after the match, while you made the effort to play against a stronger team. Don't get me wrong: this is shameful, and this should not have its place in the community.
Here's a recent example (out of many, unfortunately):
Above, we can see Valyria losing by a lot against Nasty Raid, and Origin taunting them after the match. Note that I don't know if any other stories happen between the two teams, or even just before the match, which is why @Origin might want to clarify the situation.
Even if their opponents didn't receive the message, this "story" is disgusting. Exposing a weaker team to lose by a lot against your team that way should be much more damnable than it is actually seen right now, and I would actually encourage staff to look at these kind of cases of a closer look, as I've always felt that making fun of weaker teams should be problems that are taken more seriously.
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