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The real problem is your "either that or that" challenge battle thing. So, if the guy is 1.5 levels above me in troop levels - it's a challenge battle. However, if I bust my butt off to climb, once I pass that guy in rank even a bit, NOT ONLY it is not a challenge battle anymore with him - I lose 25 medals in an almost impossible match to win (let's be honest, if the guy that is 1.5 levels above you, in average, plays well and makes no mistakes - you have 0 chances, it's just -25 cause you got that guy matched against you and there is 0 counterplay).
Whole concept of +15 but -25 is flawed, but this thing with leaderboard position negating difference in strength that removes "challenge battle" from the enemy - is total BS :/
I've decided to create a new player (TheMule) and to try and play through as a pure F2P and going through the ranks, I do find these matches come around too often in the Gold League.
Yeah, I probably have found myself too far ahead, but the match-making system still needs to be tweaked.
Edit: If it wasn't obvious, the attachment shows that it should have been a challenge match, but it wasn't.
- BattaIia8 years agoSeasoned AceAlright, so the dev's have clarified that there are 2 different challenge battles:
1) The other player has +200 medals on you. This is a challenge battle 100% of the time.
2) The other player has 1.5 average levels on your average levels. HOWEVER: For this to kick in, your entire list including commander must be within 3 levels of the league cap.
Gold cap is 9, so your commander and riflesquad prevented that game from becoming a challenge battle. This is to prevent 2 things:
1) players putting 1 or more level 1 cards in their army to force challenge battles so they always gain extra medals and never lose them
2) players from playing well enough to wedge their account into a situation where every match is against a 3+ player so every game is a challenge battle preventing medal loss.
Kinda confusing, I know. Lemme know if you need any aspects of it clarified.