DEVS Please Fix GAC

"...Sure maybe you'd still have lost, but it at least would have given you a chance..."

I swear you have difficulty reading. I personally don't even care about GAC that much anymore. They could delete the event from the game and I'd actually be more inclined to enjoy it at this point. Maybe spend less time worrying about me, and spend more time reading what I wrote objectively and with an open mind. 

(See my images included on each post)

As I stated in my opening post, this isn't a ME problem. This is a problem that has a negative impact on all 43 members of my guild, so thinking logically this is clearly something that affects hundreds (maybe even thousands) of players. You have your nice cushy spot in Kyber, and I assume every GL, and at a bare minimum 12M GP. Maybe you should create an alternate account from scratch, spend absolutely 0 money on it and then tell me what you think. At least then you'll see it from the perspective of the majority, and not the minority sitting at the top. 

"But CG will care that lazy people can get basically the same rewards without effort or upgrading your roster"

ATM, the solution to that is absurdly easy. You know how in TW you have to place an absolute bare minimum of 3 squads just to get rewards right? (Yeah, I think that's pathetic too, but moving on) All you have to do is increase the minimum required score for GAC from the ridiculous 10 points. On top of that, make GAC participation a requirement for daily crystals (since that is based on your GAC rank anyway). If you don't participate in GAC, you're not getting your daily crystals from your rank until the next season. Force players to at least try to beat 3 squads in total and the problem is solved. No more people just hitting 1 team and slowly dropping rank because they'll forfeit their crystal income from GAC entirely. 

"Someone is going to get screwed and have bad matchups and then complain. And how does your system handle inactive players?"

You are absolutely correct. But instead of that happening 75% of the time, it'll be closer to maybe 10% of the time.  Still one heck of an improvement to me. 

"Also, having different rules for carb/bronz/chrom is going to make it extremely hard to get above that because everyone is going to then have differently built rosters matched by different criteria."

"But CG will care that lazy people can get basically the same rewards without effort or upgrading your roster"

"Well, how are they now going to break into Aurodium when theres a wall of lazy 10+mil accounts in front of them?"

Please tell me you see the direct contradiction. On one hand you say protecting lower tiers of GAC means there's no incentive to build your roster, and then you later say that making it to the next rank won't be possible because the accounts sitting there are all too big. 

Can you remind me how you increase GP? Oh yeah... building your roster. But that means... if you build your roster and match bigger accounts, oh my gosh..! You'll actually have a fair match against people with similar rosters. 

Wasn't that... no, can't be... didn't I suggest that from the very freaking beginning? eye roll

"but theres probably such a wide variance of both gp and roster composition its going to be hard to come up with X number of fairly matched 8 person brackets."

You don't seriously believe it's a manual process do you? It's an automatic process based on the parameters set for filtering. Odds are it follows the typical coding of "If x, then y. If y, then z". That being the case [if, then is literally a thing in code, and I'm not making that up - used to do a bit of programming back in the day] it should be extremely easy to ADD filter options. Then the system will match those parameters the best that it can. 

For Example:

GP first.  So, say you match everyone within 1M of GP from each other. GL second - Now let's look at EVERYONE between 8M to 9M and say no more than +2 GL. So if you have 6 GL, your weakest opponent will have 4. THIRD - Gear 13+ units. The final criteria would match people who strictly farm GL requirements (usually secondary accounts) together in theory. Why? Because their relic units are doing to be strictly the units needed for their perspective GL that were already matched to begin with. 

But if you have more than that, then you'll be matched with other players who also have more relics and worked on other teams. 

@ jdjdjfkth

"there are many problems with GAC and have been for years. They will do nothing about it. In fact, you will get no response from CG from your post. So I will give you CG’s response : spend more."

Since I came back almost 5 years ago this is pretty much what it feels like. Wasn't any different before that either, except somehow they made it worse than ever before (aside from pure GP matchmaking) which I didn't think was possible. 

Either way, that response is a cop out. It solves nothing, and doesn't make this event any less frustrating for the NEW players who just see a horrible game forcing you to spend money if you want to just keep up, let alone grow. 

For everyone else:

So far I've put together that nearly everyone agrees this event is broken. I'm offering logical, thought through (possible) solutions to each and every problem. 

If you think this method isn't the right one, how about instead of giving CG a hundred reasons why it won't work... come up with a solution you think would work. 

 There is a huge fundamental difference between whining (like one of the people here who commented), sharing a dialog (like ATM), and trying to SOLVE a problem virtually everyone and their mothers is aware of. 

I'm not asking anyone to agree with me. Frankly, don't care if you do or not. As far as I'm concerned GAC is so beyond broken (and slowly getting worse) that just about any solution is better than no solution at all. 

These threads always come back to this suggestion, which longer serving players have lived through and know is a far worse option than what we have now.