GAC, 2.5 mil difference against opponent

Aaaand first round matchup is vs a 3.4M account with an r5 wampa and more relics and 7 star toons than I can count. Queue the folks who tell me how good I am and how happy I should be that I’m punching up so far and how this person must suck and that’s why we have the same SR….. sigh. No fun.

"MaruMaru;c-2351384" wrote:

"Kathark;c-2351375" wrote:

"MaruMaru;c-2351220" wrote:

"harvestmouse;c-2351218" wrote:

"MaruMaru;c-2351194" wrote:

Do we really expect cg to filter no-shows and try to match them against eachother?

Financially maybe yes.... Eventually a non-playing account will be ranked the same as any other non-playing account no matter what their GP.

GAC (I believe) is the most exciting part of this game. If as a new level 85 player you're in a bracket with 7 non playing accounts that you win if they don't play, lose if they even breathe on the match up that's pretty p!$$ poor advertisement of the game.

Probably stronger measures/less rewards need to be given for players not playing.

The accounts are playing though, they have to opt in each gac week. They just choose to not attack in a round.

Yes they opt in to get the daily crystals, but don’t attack. Elsewhere in the forum I have proposed a “forfeit penalty” (like @harvestmouse was saying stiffer consequences for non attackers). Even this will only go so far to help the issue.

I don't think a penalty besides already losing thus forfeiting all the benefits of winning is necessary. +even if they get penalized you are already getting the benefits of winning, it's not like you will get more. You get a free win, but also a boring turn. What else do you wanna get when matched with a no show?

Yeah, there probably isn’t a way to make it so expensive that folks will stop doing it. This is why the “two separate SR” or “roster strength” based proposals for actual matching seem more likely to help. I can imagine a sliding scale with a combination of GP, zetas, relics, etc to bound the problem. So in carbonite if I have 5 zetas there’s a limit that I can’t be matched against someone with 20 zetas. Or within a certain % of GP. Or some combination thereof. I just want a reasonable limit, not “find my best/closest matchup”. Then the win loss pushes you around in the rankings, then the next round the roster bucket kicks in again. This also forces the dead weight accounts to swim in their own lanes. Obviously this lane gets wider and wider as you move up the tiers because the possible ways to overcome the differences are more and more the better your roster.

"Kathark;c-2351385" wrote:
Aaaand first round matchup is vs a 3.4M account with an r5 wampa and more relics and 7 star toons than I can count. Queue the folks who tell me how good I am and how happy I should be that I’m punching up so far and how this person must suck and that’s why we have the same SR….. sigh. No fun.

Sounds like you already understand what's going on.

"Kathark;c-2351375" wrote:
Yes they opt in to get the daily crystals, but don’t attack.

You still get Daily Crystals of you don't join GAC. And your Skill Rating isn't impacted, aside from the end of Event "squish".

"Jiaka;d-254765" wrote:


Soooo, can anyone tell me how this is a fair fight???

What is ally code?

"harvestmouse;c-2351169" wrote:
I think your theory is a concern. If you're in Carbonite 5 what happens when all these big accounts hit the mud at the bottom. What do new players entering GAC encounter?

I checked your last 2 GACs and all bar 1 you had competitive match ups. You are punching up every match even though you're on a massive losing curve though......That's not good for morale.

5/12 wins during the most recent season where a couple of the losses could have been wins instead is not a "massive losing curve".

Getting several losses in a row, 6 or so, which means i was demoted twice...TBH a couple of matches i could have won...very close and i made a mistake...
Still think it is working...sooner or later i will go down to "my level". Was punching above it for a while due to good matches...so i got better rewards for a few weeks...
Anooying to keep losing...yes it is. Unfair? No...i dont think so...

"DarjeloSalas;c-2346850" wrote:
Your skill rating is the same, therefore it’s a fair fight by the conditions of GAC matchmaking

This has not much to do with skills tho. I am losing fight in purpose already third GAC, but get still opponents that have far more GP, wider rosters, more GLs. Its not much fun.

"marxuke;c-2351871" wrote:

"DarjeloSalas;c-2346850" wrote:
Your skill rating is the same, therefore it’s a fair fight by the conditions of GAC matchmaking

This has not much to do with skills tho. I am losing fight in purpose already third GAC, but get still opponents that have far more GP, wider rosters, more GLs. Its not much fun.

You could try to win instead of losing on purpose and see what happens ? I guess it will be more fun that not play at all.

"Waqui;c-2351750" wrote:

"harvestmouse;c-2351169" wrote:
I think your theory is a concern. If you're in Carbonite 5 what happens when all these big accounts hit the mud at the bottom. What do new players entering GAC encounter?

I checked your last 2 GACs and all bar 1 you had competitive match ups. You are punching up every match even though you're on a massive losing curve though......That's not good for morale.

5/12 wins during the most recent season where a couple of the losses could have been wins instead is not a "massive losing curve".

1/8 at one point though. That's pretty depressing..........if you're trying. It was a side buttering point though so yeah whatever.