The real issue is that as more players come and play the game, and higher ranks get higher and higher equip and hero requirements, less and less people % wise will be able to complete gold, since it’s limited by number. 

A much easier long term approach is needed, that requires zero rebalancing, and that is removing the cap of number of players that can climb to gold, and make a reset every few months with everyone starting from bronze again (or a few ranks below). This will encourage a level playing field, and strong players will climb quickly. Weaker players will have a chance to reach gold, since it’s not capped and stacked full of strong players.

You could also introduce a cap only by % of total player base on Platinum so as to not make it so exclusive to a number of players.

This is a similar approach used by Hearthstone and MTGA, except they do not cap the highest tier of PVP at all. Dota also does a percentile/bellcurve type approach where the population is divided by ELO %, not by number ceiling.

TL;DR: don’t cap the number of players in gold tier.

To my understanding, unlike platinum tier, there is no limit on the number of players in Gold tier, but instead it is an indirest effect of the points required (2000p) to be in gold tier. I feel the number of players in Gold T is flexible and is dependent upon the total number of player within the game, such that the more the total number players in the game, the more that will be in Gold tier. This is because with greater number of players, there is greater number of points to be distributed. So for somone to gain points to be in Gold tier, another individual must losse points.

Thus my initial suggestion to increase points gained for win and decreasing points lost for a loss, indirectly increases capacity of higher tiers because it pushes everyone to higher tiers. But ofcourse this may eventually hit a brick wall like the current system and will need to be evaluated. I feel Plarium can use stats to monitor this and proactively take actions to prevent hitting this wall that prevents progress.

H3lp3r said:

To my understanding, unlike platinum tier, there is no limit on the number of players in Gold tier, but instead it is an indirest effect of the points required (2000p) to be in gold tier. I feel the number of players in Gold T is flexible and is dependent upon the total number of player within the game, such that the more the total number players in the game, the more that will be in Gold tier. This is because with greater number of players, there is greater number of points to be distributed. So for somone to gain points to be in Gold tier, another individual must losse points.

Thus my initial suggestion to increase points gained for win and decreasing points lost for a loss, indirectly increases capacity of higher tiers because it pushes everyone to higher tiers. But ofcourse this may eventually hit a brick wall like the current system and will need to be evaluated. I feel Plarium can use stats to monitor this and proactively take actions to prevent hitting this wall that prevents progress.

My second other point to decrease requirements to be in each tier, e.g. Gold 1 at 1100 points, also helps to indirectly increase capacity.

I have said this also, the points gathered in classic arena are zero sum! When I win 9 points, the opponent lose also 9 points, when I win 11 points my opponent also lose 11 points, thus even though in theory there's unlimited spot for people in gold, the system in which how points are distributed will make sure there's a limited people in gold proportional to the whole population of players.

In theory this is not something bad, but this system eventually create a virtual cap on the ladder, a point of which every time someone wants to get into gold, another person must be taken down to silver.

And we have come to the point in which this problem have reached to bronze. All of these veteran accounts that cannot move anywhere because to reach a higher position, they need to outpace the growth of the accounts above them.

That is why the arena are going to get harder as time goes by, everyone will grow but they cannot go anywhere because the point system prevent them from going anywhere in the ladder.

arena is allmost perfect now. only improve can be 1-4 plat tiers. Devs allready replied about arena i support them 100% 

Arena has come to a point where it simply annyoing. 98% of Arena results are determined by speed. In tag team arena for example you just have to have 300+ speed even in Silver to have a remote chance of winning something. The only champ breaking through this endless speed competition is Tormin. Even a shield set on someone like Koronar ist not enough in most cases to counter speed teams with skullcrown and a ally join attack champ. It's gone to a point where it has become ridicolous. This has nothing to do with orogonal intention of clever synergistiv effects of various champions with different mechanics anymore. Probly speed should be CAPPED (270 sounds like a reasonable value).

There are teams in tag team arena Silver that have in each group >200k power and every group contains overpowered champs like Lilitu or Siphi, all fully developed, which makes it nearly impossible to land debuffs.

Lilitu and Siphi have been OP since their implementation and have skill sets comprising that of 2 or 3 "ordinary" legendaries. Perhaps it's time for an adjustment of these two. And yes, I would stay with this opinion even if I had them. Two of my best legendaries where already adjusted (Rotos, Tormin),

Arthurios

Trips said:

Making the tiers bigger across the board makes the most sense.  It's not fair for the newer accounts to compete against the 1+ year accounts.  People complain about competing against legos, but really it's the gear that is the biggest difference maker.

I honestly think that expanding the tier is just like remedying the symptoms, after a while the problem will just come back again, and again and again.

If we go to your analogy of a ponzi scheme, it's just like adding a bonus to the members if they stay longer. It will fall again...

They need to permanently remove the virtual "cap" on the ladder, they need to make it so the system can generate more points than provided by the 1000 points per people joining in the arena.