[feast] Carry Over Tier Ranking Discouraging Diamond Players To Queue

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Depending on your current rank in a season, you will be given a head start on the next season. Such as so:

• Diamond -> Gold
• Platinum -> Silver
• Gold -> Bronze
• Silver or Lower -> None

This is great, because it spreads the queue out a bit so new players aren't facing off against full on veteran players with the same rating to begin a season. However, this is based on the current tier of the player. If you earn a placement in the diamond tier, then later derank - you lose 500 points on the start of the next season. Can we please make this based on the highest achieved tier in the previous season?

At the moment the only reason to keep queuing after hitting diamond is to make top ten or rank one. Likely they will guarantee their top 100 placement by achieving diamond, which is where the majority of rewards come from. If it was changed to be based on highest achieved tier, players would be encouraged to keep climbing without a risk of losing their higher placement for the next season.

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