GA matchmaking

"Javick_Starage;c-1759204" wrote:

"Waqui;c-1759198" wrote:

So, why should players, who developed a stronger roster (still with the same total GP as his opponents) only be matched with other strong opponents? Why shouldn't he instead benefit from having developed his roster well? Why should a player with a weaker roster (same GP) have an easier path to take first place than the player with the stronger roster and get the same rewards as him/her? How would that be even remotely fair and balanced? I suspect, that the algorithm actually makes sure to not pit all the strong players against each other. From what I've experienced each 'pod' of eight has had a good mix of strongly built and weakly built rosters.

Yes, including ship GP in the algorithm, when ships are not even used is silly. Apart from that using roster GP as the 'main' match-making parameter seems quite fair.

All depends on how long you’ve been playing though doesn’t it.

If you start new it’s easy to know which teams you should farm and which to avoid.

I believe experienced players have that knowledge too.

I have a lot of older teams that were meta or raid relevant but in today’s environment are cannon fodder.

Eg droids with jawa support, lando, teebo, jedi’s (Anakin, Aayla etc)

All of these characters are useless and thus I won’t gear them higher which means they ultimately do nothing but give me harder opponents by inflating my GP.

You and your opponents have almost the same total GP, right? So, if you started way back when droids and Wiggs + Lando was a thing, and your opponent started (more) recently, then I guess, you either had a break from the game or you didn't play consistently every day, while your opponent played more consistently. So, to repeat myself:
Why shouldn't your opponent benefit from having developed his/her roster better than you?

(On a side note, Anakin and certainly Aayla have their uses in GA, and my alt's opponent choked on a Teebo lead ewok team yesterday, but i get your point)

Personally I think only g10+ characters should be considered. Anything below that doesn’t actually help.

A team of low gear Ackbar and C-3P0 with high gear Leia, actually did well on offense for me yesterday. In december my alt had success with the strategy of setting a Chewie defense (weak defense) against an opponent with far better character GP than me (He never got through my fleet, while I cleared his board). If low gear characters can be used - and used successfully - why shouldn't they be considered for matchmaking?