We’re interested to hear your thoughts on the following topics, please 
How do you feel about our current ELO decay system?
Information about the ELO decay system can be found here: https://www.faeria.com/news/announcements/52-patch-notes-june-15th-2016
How do you feel about the fact that we have ranks in Pandora?
Regarding Pandora, I think it was unwise to make ranks since your reward grows the more win you get. It encourage players to lose intentionnaly their games with the phantom coins.
It also sucks to know you get a free run at 6 win, but you queue against god ranks all the time (I’m god rank at the moment).
In other words, the ranking system in pandora seems to be punishing good players.
I think I’d appreciate if ELO decay was only happening to like the top 20% of the ranks - so to say only to those that are trying to play competitively. The only real purpose of this is anyway that someone can not climb to maybe the top20 and never play again to secure his top spot, right?
The pressure of having to play a game every 3 days is something I and probably many other casual players do not enjoy - and how is that fair to people who work, have family, etc and are only able to play for e.g. on weekends? They probably won’t climb to the top 100 anyway, but is it fair that they get to say 1550 ELO, and then lose “two decay cycles” again week after week?
I like the Pandora Ranks as an additional motivation, I can see though how people feel salty when they get ranked against higher players than them (while it doesn’t make a difference, because if it the ranks weren’t shown to them, they’d still get matched against the same players). I guess this minor issue solves itself one there are enough players for the matchmaking to always match you with someone of similar rank (and/or similar number of pandora run wins).
About the ELO decay, I agree with FeiLing. I think it’s something useful to have in general, because you don’t want the top players to just sit at their position after a few months, rendering any new player almost unable to get there. Instead, the goal is to create the need for a player to fight for both, earning their top position and keeping it. To avoid punishing the players, who are more busy with their family life, work etc. you can cap the decay at some point.
I think the League of Legends ranking system (as I remember it from 2 years ago, when I still played 
) is a good example for how to do it:
I’m not entirely sure, such an extreme system is fit for Faeria. It all depends, on how competitive you want this game to be. Plus, before adding such an extremely competitive environment, you first need a much bigger player base, because such a system can become really frustrating, if competition is missing while you still need to constantly fight for staying at your high rank due to auto decay. So I’d say, wait at least half a year or a year after the free to play launch. 
In Pandora, I like the idea of having a ranking system in general, BUT I feel the current ranking system fails to achieve the goals of any ranking system completely. A ranking system always aimes to serve as a motivator to play the game, and, usually, as a matchmaking factor as well. Under normal circumstances, this would create a competitive situation, a thought that I really appreciate for all game modes.
However, the current system is the exact opposite of a motivator for several combined reasons:
First, the current prime motivation to play Pandora is, and probably always will be, the rewards, especially for new players who don’t want to buy the full collection. This, by itself, is no problem. The problem only occurs at the very moment, you link the rewards to the # of wins alone while linking the matchmaking to your ranking, instead of your current wins. Using the ranking system as a prime matchmaking factor, the more you play Pandora, the closer you get to your personal skillcap, which, in a perfect situation and draft mode aside, eventually leads to an average win ratio of 50%, hence a 3 win-run on average.
This system works perfectly contrary to your motivation to win a reward as great as possible, hence winning as many games as possible (your prime motivation!). In most cases, you just can not achieve both, a very good ranking and an average run of much more than 50%. That is, if you’re not one of the top players, of course.
Second, the problem gets even worse due to the fact that Shadow Pandora ranking is linked to your normal Pandora. By this shared ranking (and matchmaking), if you want to maximize your reward, you’d basically play your 3 or 4 normal Pandora runs. After you experience more and more losses due to the fact of getting closer to your skillcap, you stop playing Pandora. Instead you now “play” Phantom Pandora each day to bash your ranking, so you can eventually reset it. Then repeat.
Third, this issue is catalyzed even more due to the “first win of the day = +1 rating”, which leads you faster to your skillcap, than you’d normally take (always assuming, ranking is (one of) the matchmaking factor(s)).
There were a lot of good suggestions to solve these issues on the board already. This is the one I liked the most: Pandora pairing and rewards system really frustrating
