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Separation to "green", "bronze", "silver", "gold" districts After the system of dividing districts into "green", "bronze", "silver", "gold" was broken, the online began to fall every day. If you look at the statistics in Steam, then after the division of districts into "green", "bronze", "silver", "gold" was broken, we can notice a significant drop in the number of players. After the release of the New Horizon update, the number of players increased, but newcomers were faced with the fact that they are forced to play against players who play APB constantly and have much better game skills. Everyone says "play better, noob", well, here is the result, from 1200 players online after the update today there are already a maximum of 800, although yesterday there were 900+. None of my friends want to go to this trash heap anymore, I don't see buying JockerTickets in Armas to try to knock out some legendaries in the store, since this game has become sharply difficult for me. Moreover, when Inova and Gamersfirst merged, the ability to write in Ukrainian was removed. Before the merger, Ukrainian letters could be used without problems, but now there is no such option. (Some kind of discrimination based on nationality) Another problem is players whose nicknames are written in Cyrillic. Players whose nicknames are written in Cyrillic regularly block missions or simply do not allow me to reach the mission by ramming my car or the car of my teammates. They especially like to block mission objects if their "comrade" plays against us on the mission. It is simply impossible to send a complaint about such players with Cyrillic in their nicknames if you do not have a Russian keyboard layout. Thus, players who use Cyrillic in their nicknames receive complete immunity to reports from European players. This is not to mention the fact that I regularly receive a ton of xenophobic statements from players from Russia just because I have UA in my nickname (since my other character already had this nickname without UA). I've gotten used to getting tons of toxic comments and wishes for me to die as soon as possible from a Russian missile. I liked the idea when Inova players were on their server and didn't bring their toxicity to European servers. (I already want to transfer my character to the US region). Cheaters and tryhards It's also no secret that there are cheats on APB now and they are free and paid to access on the Internet. In addition to cheaters, there are also just players who play as if they were playing with cheats and you don't know if you were killed from 80 meters with a Colby .45 cheat or skill. I talked to newcomers to the game and not only newcomers, everyone as one says that they are tired of Gold players who don't give them a chance to take a step. Just yesterday, in my presence, several players simply didn't want to go on a mission because there were Gold players with cheats or a very cool skill, in my presence, players quit this game forever. Here are some graphs from Steam DB: Here are some graphs from will.io: In conclusion, I can only advise, at least for now, to return the division of districts into "green", "bronze", "silver", "gold" so that new players play against new players, and players who play poorly play against those who play poorly, and to prohibit "green" players from getting into missions where there is at least one "gold" player.

Can someone please explain to me how this works, so if I (an ex average silver player) gets teamed up with 1 bronze, 1 freshly new player(still in their T stage of life) and another silver, thats 4 none golds, 2 inexperienced players and 2 semi experienced players, how is it that we have to face a full team of gold's, sometimes legitimate and sometimes questionable? With no means of winning or even enjoying the experience of playing? Like in what world does that make sense? And then if you choose to not play you're then considered to be "Griefing" and risk being banned... Like what are the choices in that situation? Play and have a very miserable time and not want to play again? or don't play and be labelled a griefer and get reported and banned? Or find a way to get kicked purposefully(I've been told that's also not really allowed so again you risk being banned)... Or do you call backup and get another less experienced player who now has to suffer alongside you? And even when you get a gold they can't carry the entire team and it's not necessarily their job to do that it's a team game, but what do you do when your team is consistently handed stacked opponents and again remember, sometimes it's a skill difference which MM is supposed to manage but doesn't and sometimes it's a suspicious advantage, macros, potential cheats etc... what do you as an average player do? Cause all the options seem to end with you risking your account or just feeding them kills, no middle ground. I personally don't need my account back as the game won't be any different if I were to return but I'm just curious on what they wanted me to do, quite? Cause that's all that's honestly left, a lot may not relate to this which is fine but for us average players who used to enjoy the game when there was actual balance I want to know what's meant to happen? You have players who shoot through glass, know where you are no matter where you go, don't miss shots and when I say they don't miss I mean they'll jump up over a ledge or something and still hit that sniper shot effortlessly, you can't tell me that you're expected to enjoy games like that? I mean that's effectively what the TOS seem to want, they want you to stick around for every game, including the illegitimate ones which to me doesn't make sense. A new player used to face similar skilled players about 4 years back but now regardless who you are, you'll potentially play the most try hard gold to ever have set foot on the game just cause you pressed K at the same time? My first ever game on a new acc was literally me as a T, a silver, a bronze and a gold(who didn't even want to play cause he had me... a T, a silver and a bronze vs 3 max rank gold's, to an extent I don't blame him but that then leaves the rest of us to do what? I just don't understand the logic behind punishing those who don't want to and can't play against people who have about 100 times the experience and or they're cheating... Like what do you do? I guess according to TOS I was rightfully banned... to which I say, it's been a fun 9 years for the most part, I hope the money I spent did some good for someone, it is what it is at the end of the day I guess...