You can perform better than any player in a fleet battle, and still lose rank. Is this ideal? Was it intentional behavior or an unforeseen side-effect? If I'm on the losing team, but score higher than any body, I would expect at the very least to just stay at the same skill rating (if not go slightly higher) despite losing, but no, you still lose rank.On the one hand I guess if I continue to win 50/50 I'll just always be at the same rank and always have the fun of being the top performing player, but on the other hand I wonder if in fairness I should be playing with slightly more skilled players. (Which would be a rude awakening to no-longer roflstomp my foes.)Thoughts?

What makes you think that going for the kills is not playing objective. Actualy even 1 interceptor pilot that is good at killing is quite important player for the team. Think about it when attacking and that interceptor guy shoot down 2 or 3 enemies before bombers get to attack makes the job for bombers much easier and then that interceptor will try to kill enemies attacking team mates to keep them alive. Ofc enemy team most likely have that interceptor allso and then it is up to interceptors Who get the advantage. Usually defending team has more than 1 interceptor so that 1 interceptor in your team might make 1 or more enemies unable to attack your bombers even if he don't kill them and just dogfights em. Focusing on killing the enemies is allso playing for objective. Beside some ppl are just very good at killing other players and their skills would go to waste bombing capitalships just like some one Who is good at bombing will waste his skills on dogfihting if he is bad at it...

Unfortunately that’s how almost all competitive modes in games work. Which is why usually when there’s that one player who screws up the team by not playing the objective but just going for kills or whatever personal achievements, it usually doesn’t end well. For squadrons, hitting the capital ships require quite a bit of team work and foresight. If you love shooting enemy players down, you gotta find a way to make that work for your bomber teammates, or if your team has to many interceptors and nobody’s taking down the cap ship, somebody’s gotta switch. It’s all about teamwork and sacrificing your personal agendas for the greater good of the team. That’s what makes competitive team games interesting because people can’t just stick to one thing that they like forever. They actually have to adapt and the team that adapts best wins.

I have a 81% win ratio after almost 70 games and I am rank 0

@BlackOpsBen You loose 5x rank points when on loosing team than you gain when on winning team, to progress you need to maintain 85% win ratio. Do not bother, with this kind of punishment everyone will eventually reach 0 rank.

@BlackOpsBen The consequences for losing is the same for every competitive mode on every game I know. You lose the match you lose your rating. This is to make sure players in the team work together to win the objective rather than chase after personal glory while the team crashes and burns.

MVP but still lose rank? Scored higher than the best player on the winning team.

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cyberbrodie
5 years ago
The game favors the team play. That team play is not only everybody going to unload bombs over the flagships no matter what. But when attacking, if you kill one enemy and one of your allies die in the same time span your have lost points as attacker's takeedowns worth less points than defender's. Maybe your efforts should be driven to make your allies survive.
It's a hard lesson in this kind of games, but MVP means nothing, Most points is not always related with most useful or best teamplayer. Unfortunately it's hard to track the real important stats (retiring on time, help the team to get the objectives faster, etc). I think it's impossible without good team communication, that's the hard part...
We all have much to learn about the game strategies and teamplay, so be patient, now everything is very random because nobody knows really how to play.
EtchTwo
5 years ago
@AHungryCello this is the theory. But in practice, if you keep scoring 30+ kills and 50k+ capital ship damage and losing tons of MMR because you have 2 or more people in your team that end with 0/15, your will to play will fade quickly.

I bought the game to enjoy a multiplayer experience, but I must not be forced by the system to play with 4 other people in teamspeak to achieve maximum coordination. My skill and my efforts to win a match must be rewarded. At least if you're MVP and lose you should not lose more than a few points, not 30% progression like I had.
If it goes on like this I'll quit.

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