GAC need a rework / better Matchmaking

Ok, here we go…

The players have the same skill rating as you, meaning they’re performing relatively worse, most often by inactivity. You should be winning about half of your matches, that’s the usual.

Sometimes the only way to win is by getting the 10 participation banners, and that sucks, but it’s apparently better than it was before. Sometimes you’ll get smacked down, sometimes you’ll be the one doing the smacking, and sometimes you just have to take those ten banners.

The devs need to seriously revisit this forum’s search facility if this poster couldn’t find any threads relating to this. 

DarjeloSalas wrote:

The devs need to seriously revisit this forum’s search facility if this poster couldn’t find any threads relating to this. 

I put in 'GAC' and it only showed the last 20 topics.  Most of those were about missing buttons or frozen battles.

75iodwp6n74f wrote:

Relic Delta the Gamemode is for me only pain no fun

Surely Relic Delta aids mismatch issues?  Stronger players are stronger therefore move back up the leagues.....in theory.

75iodwp6n74f wrote:

the unfair Matchmaking

I'll say it again................an activity score as a secondary matching criteria is a simple and elegant way of fixing the mismatch issues.  You don't need a chainsaw to cut away a bum-boil.  A tiny,  but sharp scalpel does the job much better........and with a lot less mess........well as little mess as you can have with a bum-boil.

75iodwp6n74f wrote:

Happy Eastern 26

Happy Easter!

Where's the fun then? If you're facing opponents you can't beat, and you only defeat them if they don't attack you. GAC was popular and a top-tier game mode precisely because of its fair matchmaking back then, when strategy worked. That's what drew players in. I don't need the victories GAC gave me; there's no thrill or appeal in that. I want to defeat an opponent of equal strength myself. That gave me the desire to keep playing. But now I don't even want to log into this game mode knowing what awaits me there. You used to prepare for a round, developing a defensive and offensive strategy, but now you don't even want to waste time watching mountains of legends against your fledgling account.

I can tell you right now.  The old system was waaaaaaaay worse than what we have now.  First it used to be seasons and not a 3 week cycle between 5v5 and 3v3 with a week off.  It was bad.  Real bad.  Like finding out you have cancer in your liver, lungs, prostate and brain.  All things you can live without. 

I can tell you right off the bat that you’re wrong, because my singular GL goes on defense and I’m still winning matches against players with millions more GP than I. It’s better than before. Don’t take my word - ask the veterans who were actually around when it was like that.

zaa6q7fj8ql0 wrote:

GAC was popular and a top-tier game mode precisely because of its fair matchmaking back then, when strategy worked.

Where are you getting that information?  Maybe, if you are a total gamey min-maxer the system was better back then.  Many players went 12-0 every season.  So, in turn, many players also went 0-12 per season.

I started off quite a casual player;  I would win 4-8 maybe.  However, over-time I learned more about the game and by the end of the old system I was generally a 10-2/11-1 player.  I guess, seeing my progress was rewarding; though, totally unfair match-making, especially in the first week.  It showed GP is a very poor formula for actual GAC strength.

The biggest issue though, is that how you build for a GP orientated GAC affects how you play the whole game.  We're continually pushed to build anything that is new.  If in GAC you're punished for bloat, you have a major, major contradiction; how you play the game as it is intended and how you play the game if you want to do well in GAC.  There's such a chasm in difference between a player that plays for GAC/knows what they're doing and a casual collecting player.  It is in now way 'fair match-making'.

This also means you can potentially find yourself a GAC 'sweet-spot' in GP.  Where you're practically unbeatable in GAC and have no reason to add a single extra GP point ever again.  As a collection game, which relies on players purchasing characters to keep the game going.  Why would CG allow a situation where not purchasing allows a massive advantage?  You simply cannot do that in a gacha style collection game.  It just doesn't work.

I believe there is a simple answer though.  Add a GAC activity score to GAC match making.  You're matched as you are now by Skill Points, but then a secondary matching formula is used.  This is a number based on how active you have been recently in your GAC match ups.  If you've been very active, you won't be matched vs inactive players that have fallen in GAC.

Well, I used to play GOH. I know what it was like. But I quit. Less than a year ago I came back and started from scratch from the very beginning.

I continued watching SWGOH videos while I was away. So I was aware of the various changes in the game.

And eventually, I wanted to play again.

The matchmaking in the game is terrible, not only because the game looks at your skill and not your roster. It also intentionally inflates your Arena Points, which I've noticed more than once. Sometimes, after a few losses, I should have been kicked out of a certain league, but it never happened, and, conversely, after a few wins, I'd immediately jump very high in the rankings to a higher league. This had never happened before. It literally happened that I'd be in one league, one win would jump me to the next, and then another win and I'd be promoted straight to the next league. Eventually, I started running into huge accounts with tons of Legends.

Previously, to climb the leagues, you needed to win a significant number of times. Now, with just one win, you're literally catapulted upward.

This terrible approach makes defeats more frequent and severely reduces rewards. Until you unlock a new legend to begin to overcome such challenges.

Unfortunately, the developers are ignoring this issue, but it’s long overdue to fix it. The matchmaking needs to be corrected.

No it doesn’t. You need to:

A. Read the replies

B. Improve your teams