GA Algorithm - Worse Than Before??
So I was excited that the GA matchup algorithm was going to be improved. I was also excited for GAC to start (correctly this time). The I go into my first round matchup... The person I am against...
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"Nikoms565;c-1898726" wrote:"leef;c-1898660" wrote:"No_Try;c-1898652" wrote:"leef;c-1898647" wrote:"No_Try;c-1898599" wrote:
There are certainly fair-er methods possible and they've already announced that was what they want to do. Trying to make it fair-er is not an effort in naught. And we are nowhere near there.
I'm not holding my breath waiting, that's for sure.
Hold it or not, it's on. Doubt you would like it to stay as it currently is. Folks are already into new method of how to circumvent it and gain advantage from it instead of just trying to play better without putting their minds into matchmaking itself.
All my viewpoints are based on the assumption that ea/cg can not ever get matchmaking "right", so all we can do is hope that the method they chose is favourable for us personally. Making adjustments to optimize the "competativeness" of your roster is a reasonable thing to do as well imo.
But I think we can all agree on, for example, the situation cited by swgohfan29 - 2 of the 8 have both Revans, 2 of the 8 have neither. That is in no way "fair", competitive or fun - for any of players. I've been on both sides of that situation and it's not an enjoyable gaming experience to win easily or lose easily.
And that also doesn't seem to make sense given CG's statements regarding the "improved" matchmaking for GAC - which talks about facing people whose rosters "look more like yours". Whether people agree or not that GAC "should" consist of largely evenly matched opponents, that is what CG stated the goal of matchup "tweak" was for. Judging by the results, they seemed to have missed by a rather large margin.
I am willing to play it out to see how this all shakes out, but if these drastically unbalanced matchups are truly WAI, this will be an easy time in the game's life for me to see if any of my guildmates are interested in playing a new account.
Depends on your definition of fair.
I can just as easily argue that it's unfair that everyone who didn't invest resources into unlocking drevan and malak is being "rewarded" by not having to face drevan and malak (which seems to something you're advocating for).
I'd wager that my chances of winning would be a lot higher if i could let my own drevan/malak magically disappear and only face players without them than my chances currently are. (7/8 have malak including myself). Obviously that's based on the assumption that there are way more "not so great" players without malak than there are with malak. Ofcourse i can't prove that or anything like that, but i honestly feel like that's a reasonable assumption to make.
