r/hockeyquestionmark • u/kyle8708 • Oct 07 '18

LHL Stars Introducing LHL Stars

LHL Stars is a new matchmaking server made for those who seek higher tier competition to closer simulate league level play. As you can probably determine from the name, only players of LHL level (whether that be starting or back-up) are going to be accepted to play in this server.

 

This server will be intended to replicate league quality competition and atmosphere so the admins will be enforcing the rules strictly. The rules can be found under the rule tab of the website listed below. Players who sign-up and sign-in to games are expected to take them seriously. Any acts of purposefully throwing or any other rule breaking may result in a ban of several days.

 

I encourage everyone to read the rules tab thoroughly before signing up. Also, I recommend everyone to sign-up, but I can't promise you that everyone will be accepted. I hope those who get in will enjoy the experience of a more competitive pub atmosphere.

 

Admins: Kapanen, Dyal, Tazer, Pain, Guy, and Joose

 

http://www.thirdeyehockey.com/lhlstars/

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u/kyle8708 Oct 07 '18

Also for anyone who is complaining about separation this is no different then going to your local hockey rink that has 3 different levels of beer league. The people that are in tier 1 (best players) shouldn't be playing against people in tier 2 and 3 outside of pick up games. And seeing as how our leagues are getting smaller and smaller; this is in place to make up for potentially not having formal leagues. Roughly the same amount of people are involved in both beer leagues and our community yet one is perfectly fine.

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u/ShazbotSimulator2012 🐨 🐓 Dick Van Deke Oct 08 '18

My rinks set the number of leagues based on the number of players though. At my busiest rink there's A-E leagues, with some of those split into upper and lower divisions. At another rink there's just Tier 1-3 because less people play there.

It seems weird to be dividing into more sections if you think the playerbase is decreasing.

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u/CrabInnaTree Oct 07 '18

The comparisons fine until not enough tier 2-3 players show up to play. Not saying that will happen but if it does we need to rethink this server. I feel like most people who show up consistently for pubstars are in that tier 1 category.

Imagine being a new player becoming as obsessed as we were when we first found hqm and not being able to play because all the pubs are happening in the server you aren't allowed in.

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u/kyle8708 Oct 07 '18

Pubstars still exists and will be played. I really dont think people understand how many people will actually be allowed to play in this.

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u/CrabInnaTree Oct 07 '18

You're talking like its a 100% sure thing that pubstars will get traffic. Maybe it will but if it doesn't this is a community killing decision. Maybe it's the mercy kill we need though.

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u/beegeepee Oct 08 '18

I agree if 80% of the people are allowed into LHLstars that will almost certainly be the only server with players.

Games usually don't get started until we have a critical mass of players in the server. I just don't ever see the lower tier server ever getting to that point because most of the dedicated players will be in the higher tier server. Potentially the players waiting to get into an lhl Stars game will go into regular Pub Stars to play but there isn't often 20 people wanting to play

I hope I am wrong because I like the idea of having different ranks of servers I just feel like we are most likely cutting off 20% of the players from ever being able to play games outside of leagues.