GA Algorithm - Worse Than Before??

To me the problem lies in rewarding those who are unintelligent with their rosters and punishing those of us who were thoughtful and intelligent when upgrading certain teams or characters. Instead my very young and lean roster is being forced to compete against very older rosters that should be much much stronger but aren't due to their choices. Young f2p accounts are already being punished enough because we cannot get teams ready quickly enough to obtain new game changing characters the first time they become available, and with the early re-release of DR even more completely f2p players have missed out yet again on another game changing character which we've worked hard trying to prepare for. So now yet again, they punish my account which is 2.95M by making me match up with other accounts that are 3.8M but not as intelligently geared as mine. What i don't understand is how we try to justify these constant and repetitive decisions that penalize people for being smart. I've been very close to quitting and had I not already invested over a year and a half into my account, i'd be gone already. The obvious greed, laziness and disregard for their player base is matched only by their inability to release content that isn't constantly bugged or completely coded wrong. This is just another reason that they are consistently losing incoming revenue. If your product isn't worth spending money on, people won't spend. Props to CG and EA for doubling down on the greed and laziness while letting the game die.

I just ran through a quick check of my competito without checking the mods.

2 of us have both revans. 2 have none. 3 have JR and 1 has DR. None have Malak.


Just stick to GP next time.

"cannonfodder_iv;c-1897537" wrote:
I have a 400k GP disadvantage and have to place 8 squads instead of the usual six (I'm assuming based on the toon GP of my opponent).

i suggest you actually take a minute to verify that.

My first opponent has almost 600k (~50%) more character GP than me and is 2 divisions above me but I am deploying the same number of squads as I normally would.

The ironic part is that I am going to curb stomp him.

"swgohfan29;c-1898017" wrote:
I just ran through a quick check of my competito without checking the mods.

2 of us have both revans. 2 have none. 3 have JR and 1 has DR. None have Malak.


Just stick to GP next time.

What's the problem exactly?

"TVF;c-1897513" wrote:

"Nikoms565;c-1897482" wrote:

"TVF;c-1897468" wrote:

"Nikoms565;d-207414" wrote:

68 15+speed mods to my 36.

I thought you were on a launch shard.

(I started in April 17 and I have exactly 68 myself)

Congrats on being lucky. Stay on topic please. If you want to "t", take it somewhere else.

You're the one that brought up mods. How on earth are they supposed to matchmake based on mods?

(and something tells me this isn't just a case of luck. since you brought that up too)

Mods are about the only thing I have in common with my opponent, so maybe it actually is. Otherwise I'm down 400k GP, 4 zetas, and 30 G11/12 characters.
I thought it was simple. Go by character GP when GA is just toons, and total GP when it's ships and toons.

"CaptainRex;c-1898180" wrote:

"TVF;c-1897513" wrote:

"Nikoms565;c-1897482" wrote:

"TVF;c-1897468" wrote:

"Nikoms565;d-207414" wrote:

68 15+speed mods to my 36.

I thought you were on a launch shard.

(I started in April 17 and I have exactly 68 myself)

Congrats on being lucky. Stay on topic please. If you want to "t", take it somewhere else.

You're the one that brought up mods. How on earth are they supposed to matchmake based on mods?

(and something tells me this isn't just a case of luck. since you brought that up too)

Mods are about the only thing I have in common with my opponent, so maybe it actually is. Otherwise I'm down 400k GP, 4 zetas, and 30 G11/12 characters.
I thought it was simple. Go by character GP when GA is just toons, and total GP when it's ships and toons.

People who had fluffed roster complained so cg change the algorithm to only account the top of you and your opponents rosters instead of all your roster. Thank the people who flooded the forum for this.

"swgohfan29;c-1898017" wrote:


2 of us have both revans. 2 have none.

"TVF;c-1898111" wrote:
What's the problem exactly?

I'll type nice and slow, so you'll understand...
From the GAC match-up rework post from Crumb.... "they’ll be matched up against someone who looks more like them."

Now look at the bolded from the post you quoted. I'll wait. You'll see it eventually.

I wouldn't consider having the two characters that have been meta for the past 6+ months, while others have neither to be" looking like them. "

"Nikoms565;c-1898208" wrote:

"swgohfan29;c-1898017" wrote:


2 of us have both revans. 2 have none.

"TVF;c-1898111" wrote:
What's the problem exactly?

I'll type nice and slow, so you'll understand...
From the GAC match-up rework post from Crumb.... "they’ll be matched up against someone who looks more like them."

Now look at the bolded from the post you quoted. I'll wait. You'll see it eventually.

I wouldn't consider having the two characters that have been meta for the past 6+ months, while others have neither to be" looking like them. "

I disagree with your fundamental complaint that the characters should be the same or similar. But even we accept that as a flaw, how does it make it worse than it was before? The matchmaking process has never factored that in. The only change we have identified is that it previously counted your entire character GP, and now it only counts the GP of the top X number of toons. If you want to argue it's worse, it has to be based around that change. I'd argue that they need to expand that number slightly (I'd suggest diminishing returns as you go past X), but I still can't see how this is worse.

"Cs99;c-1898204" wrote:

"CaptainRex;c-1898180" wrote:

"TVF;c-1897513" wrote:

"Nikoms565;c-1897482" wrote:

"TVF;c-1897468" wrote:

"Nikoms565;d-207414" wrote:

68 15+speed mods to my 36.

I thought you were on a launch shard.

(I started in April 17 and I have exactly 68 myself)

Congrats on being lucky. Stay on topic please. If you want to "t", take it somewhere else.

You're the one that brought up mods. How on earth are they supposed to matchmake based on mods?

(and something tells me this isn't just a case of luck. since you brought that up too)

Mods are about the only thing I have in common with my opponent, so maybe it actually is. Otherwise I'm down 400k GP, 4 zetas, and 30 G11/12 characters.
I thought it was simple. Go by character GP when GA is just toons, and total GP when it's ships and toons.

People who had fluffed roster complained so cg change the algorithm to only account the top of you and your opponents rosters instead of all your roster. Thank the people who flooded the forum for this.

Except that's not how it seems to be working. See the post from swgohfan29 for what I mean.

"Nikoms565;c-1898219" wrote:

"Cs99;c-1898204" wrote:

"CaptainRex;c-1898180" wrote:

"TVF;c-1897513" wrote:

"Nikoms565;c-1897482" wrote:

"TVF;c-1897468" wrote:

"Nikoms565;d-207414" wrote:

68 15+speed mods to my 36.

I thought you were on a launch shard.

(I started in April 17 and I have exactly 68 myself)

Congrats on being lucky. Stay on topic please. If you want to "t", take it somewhere else.

You're the one that brought up mods. How on earth are they supposed to matchmake based on mods?

(and something tells me this isn't just a case of luck. since you brought that up too)

Mods are about the only thing I have in common with my opponent, so maybe it actually is. Otherwise I'm down 400k GP, 4 zetas, and 30 G11/12 characters.
I thought it was simple. Go by character GP when GA is just toons, and total GP when it's ships and toons.

People who had fluffed roster complained so cg change the algorithm to only account the top of you and your opponents rosters instead of all your roster. Thank the people who flooded the forum for this.

Except that's not how it seems to be working. See the post from swgohfan29 for what I mean.

I'm not defending the change, I'm stating the reason why it happened. I liked the old algorithm, but i also only lost a total of 3 close matches so I'm a little biased.