I think, or at the very least hope it might have to do with being in the scrub lobby and hope that it gets better in joukyuu, though I also do fear that people will be pushing chicken hands even harder to maintain rank.Īnd having experienced tenhou and "the real mahjong", I don't exactly feel like going back to Majsoul, knowing that wins there have nothing to do with me being any good and everything to do with everyone else being somehow even worse. Sure, easier to win for me, but winning off an auto-discarding bot doesn't feel exactly satisfying. It really doesn't help that about half of my games, somebody rage quits halfway in.
I can't get any read on what people are doing and having to force myself to go for faster hands over more valuable hands because of the avoid 4th place at all costs -meta really sucks out any enjoyment or variety of the game. I have no clue why the game allows matching people like that together in the first place, I had imagined tenhou having a total of 119001 people in the kyu ranks (not even counting the 159230 beginner accounts) wouldn't have trouble matching people more equally.
I constantly get matched with people with over 1800 rating, and the game goes about as well as one would expect. The fourth place penalty feels extra harsh when after a good streak of wins one or two 4th places knock my rating back under 1500. The bigger problem apart from me sucking is that the game is not really feeling fun anymore for me. So yeah, I realize I was just a big fish in a small pond on Majsoul, and know absolutely nothing about mahjong, that much is clear. It was certainly a humbling experience, seeing as at the rank where points wins/losses break even, 2nd 3rd dan, players keep an average rating of 1650 ~1725 according to the stats. I've maintained my rating at exactly 1500 for the entire time, barely fluctuating above or below it. So far I've made it up to 3rd kyu over 40 games, and it has been an eye-opening experience. So, given the lack of any actual way to assess my skill in majsoul, I recently started playing Tenhou. People play it for casual fun, and it certainly works for that, doing well in the gold room certainly doesn't require much in terms of being a try-hard. The thing with Majsoul ranks is that it keeps rewarding wins more than it ever punishes losses, so all the ranks really serve for is to show how much you've played, not at all how good you are at the game.
I started out playing Mahjong soul some 3-4 months ago on/off until recently hitting master rank and getting a top 200 ranking, which made me realize how truly tiny the player base and how low the overall skill level is. I've been reading riichi book one and trying to put the advice into use, but I'm still an utter beginner and whatever wins I get are more on luck than skill. So as a preface, I'm extremely bad at mahjong.