GAC Design is Backwards
Currently: GAC Matchmaking functions on your ranking. E.G., Kyber 3s are supposed to match other Kyber 3s. This means someone that is bad at the game with 15 mil GP regularly matches into people who ...
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The problem with the overall GP is that it is a measure of your roster completeness, not the actual power of it. E.g. with all those LSB being rampant nowadays, it is easy to find players with over 7 millions GP without even a single GL, and that can be easily beaten by players with less than half that GP.
To match players with related GP, one option could be to compare also the mean GP of the X strongest toon of each roster. Where X scales up at each division level. But, even so, with all those new shiny toys being far more stronger than older teams, it can become unbalanced pretty quickly. To really fix things, CG should add a new counter that takes into account the actual power of toons.
The actual power of toons is quite hard to calculate because it depends on synergies, team zetas and datacrons etc. Therefore, it would be much simpler to only consider GL number instead if you want absolute balance. But then, 3mil accounts with 1 GL may have to face a 7mil account also with only 1 GL. That isn’t balanced too, but at least it’s better than the current state. I mean, non-GL teams rarely beat GLs at all so if a player with at least 2 GLs put two of them on defense, the player with only one GL on offense has almost no chance of winning. Therefore, GL number is actually the major factor, and combing that with an upper limit on GP, the GAC system is going to be more balanced.
It had that "compare the GP of the X stronger toons" a long time ago. And then you upgraded your whole roster at he same time, character after character. Some players had that X stronger toons and others had all of them with the same strength and crushed the first ones.
Current system can be considered unfair, but has its logic. It's not about "I'm the best of my GP-equals" because game itself is not designed to use GP as a real power of the roster measure. Not even your stronger toons. This is not Warhammer. And datacrons, the current nukes of the game, add 0 GP. If you lose, you go down and will face weaker enemies. If you win, you go up and will face stronger ones. That's the point. That's the balance. It's used in a lot of games. You are not going to win everytime. In a balanced game you will win about 50%. It's not about the same GP, is about the performance in combat.
