Learning about GNSS right now and its confusing how they do this. This is especially confusing when I start to think about how satellites constantly orbit the Earth, not all countries of the world follow DST, and time is slower in space. Only North America, Europe, and some parts of Australia and South America follow this.
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Four accounts were Silver 4 in Constructed. One was Gold 4.
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All of the accounts were out of their 50 fight honeymoon phase.
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All matches were tested in Alchemy BO3. The pool of potential players is lower here, though, so it likely skewed testing.
What was I trying to find out? I wanted to see what I would be matched up against if I tried to bottom out my MMR. I hypothesized I should meet mostly bad players and/or bad/jank decks.
I noted the names of players to track how I matched with them with each account. While I was essentially giving out free wins by conceding, I did start to notice a trend with several players in Silver conceding to me at the start, artificially dropping their rank. These same players did it against more than one of my decks before even the first land dropped, including conceding during the sideboard phase. I was actually surprised how often this happened. This goes back to my original theory that people use Silver to farm their daily wins, and likely only push into Plat toward the end of the month. This way they'll drop back to Silver each time.
I was often matched far out of my rank against Bronze, Platinum, and Diamond players. In fact, nearly 60% of my total matches (81) were not against my rank. Out of curiosity, I did wait to see their decks in action, and while players from every rank did run a mix of metas (mostly goblins, life gain, and dragons), literally ALL of the Bronze decks were Tier 1 meta decks. You can't artificially drop your Bronze rank (as far as I'm aware), though, so I'm not sure why some of these would concede early, but they did.
I noticed that there is some sort of protection against matching with the same person you fought recently, but it goes away if more than a minute passes in the search for opponents.
While I was running 3 accounts at the same time, all Silver 4, all with identical starter decks, I would still often be matched with much higher ranked players. This happened A LOT. There were even times when I figured I should have been matched against myself (Silver 4 vs Silver 4), but wound up against Platinum and Gold players. It's likely those players may have been in the search queue for a long time, though.
TLDR: In the end of my grueling hours and hours of tests I learned next to nothing of value. The sample size was still too low. I'm going to test it on Standard BO3 Ranked next time to see if the results are the same. The most surprising factor was seeing how
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After nine gruelling years of construction, the government today has announced the completion of the Mongolian National Rail System. A small ceremony and press conference was held in Ulaanbaatar, with bulletins sent to newspapers and news agencies around the world, from Moscow to Washington, Helsinki to Buenos Aires. The first official train journey from Ulaanbaatar (though admittedly trains had already arrived and gone from the station in Ulaanbaatar) was made, with fanfare and applause from along the train tracks.
The connections around the country will serve to bolster international trade, and be the spine on which the continuing industrialisation and modernisation of the country is based. Both passengers, workers or tourists, as well as freight, will be utilising the rail lines.
Though future five year plans may include provisions to expand the rail lines in some sectors, or even construct new years to connect towns and cities not yet in the network, the rail system, even as it stands, is a testament to Mongolian and communist ingenuity and intrepidness.
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Thank you for any information given as I am clueless about this stuff and I’m from Tennessee.
I’m not quite sure what’s happened, but I got a call from National Credit Systems about some debt I owed from an apartment complex I stayed at. As far as I know, I paid all my payments for rent and gave them a 2 month notification like the lease agreement required. When talking to the person on the phone, they told me it was for failure for early lease termination for ~$1900. I told them to send me the information they have to the address that they had for me on file. Now I’ve never talked to these people before in my life, nor had I made any accounts. I’ve been waiting for the mail I was expecting them to send me, and it’s been well over a week and I haven’t received anything. I just received an email from CreditKarma, telling me that a new National Credit Systems account was added to my credit report.
What does this mean? Is this something that happens when they try to collect a debt? What can I do about this?
You can complete all classic zones.
5 burning crusade zones , can't do shadowmoon and netherstorm.
6 wrath of the lich king zones, can't do icecrown and storm peaks.
4 pandaria zones, can't do isle of thunder, townlong steppes, dread wastes,vale of eternal blossoms,timeless isle
4 draenor zones, can't do spires of arak, nagrand,tanaan jungle
4 legion zones , can't do suramar and argus
2 BFA zones
13battlegrounds
gold cap increased from 20 to 1000
professions uncapped
Now for the bad parts, can't join a guild, can't chat on general channels, no parties, no flying.no cataclysm areas, no pet battles, no auction house
the dungeon lfg tool is stuck on BFA so you can only do 2 dungeons with it instead of having access to the whole catalog of dungeons(might still be able to do them if you walk to the entrance, havent tested),
If you just want to run around and do quests and explore, there's more free content than ever before, and if you run out you can all ways upgrade if you decide you like the game enough to continue
