Casual Elo rating in DE2, yay or nay?

Currently you have no clue what kind of people you play with in casual lobbies in aoe2 DE. teams are rarely balanced and I'm seriously missing the casual rating system HD had at this point. The ladder games are fine, but the casual lobbies really need a rating aswell so people can actually host fun and semi balanced games.

How do you guys feel about having a (always active) HD like rating system in all casual lobbies? This rating would be completely separate of ladder games.

Granted hd wasn't perfect, you had a fair amount of Smurfs especially in the 1600 range where I play but at least in that game you had an indication of player skill and could try to balance teams around it or remove players that are excessively higher or lower than the group average. I play a lot of 4v4s and so far almost every single game, wether it was listed as noobs only, regular 4v4 or experienced only it has consistently been such a mixed bag of skill that almost every single game was won or lost by 1 or 2 players at most. Wether that be 1 person carrying or players falling horribly behind and quitting.

I love how smooth DE plays and it looks great, but by removing the rating system they didn't actually make it custom games more casual (for me at least). They just made custom games a frustrating mixed bag of players really weak players throwing games and highly skilled players stomping games single-handedly.

I would personally really like to see the HD rating system return to DE preferably to be enabled by default in any game that isn't a custom scenario so we at least have an indication of skill in these games instead of the current roll the dice situation. Too often I've played games where it became progressively more clear that the game was already decided when the host clicked start game.

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