Grand Area Championship Division Feedback

Because the GAC is a 5 week long event and some of the games within that 5 weeks will include fleets. Also I am sure there will be plenty of other people in your division in the same boat for matchmaking to pit you against.

This one has zero fleets. It should have ZERO fleet weighing on the placement. They're talking about how "new matchups" will work, and yet they can't seem to realize what they're doing.

They realise it pretty well. You simply don't understand it. In normal GA as well, you were segregated based on your total GP. i.e. 2.75-4M gp. It's not matchmaking.

"No_Try;c-1892028" wrote:
They realise it pretty well. You simply don't understand it. In normal GA as well, you were segregated based on your total GP. i.e. 2.75-4M gp. It's not matchmaking.

Except they've changed the matchmaking for GAC, so you haven't a bloody clue how 'not solely weighted by GP' matchmaking will work. So, perhaps, you simply don't understand it, either. None of us can understand it, and most of CG probably don't understand the algorithm. Weird.

"YetiYeti;c-1892391" wrote:

"No_Try;c-1892028" wrote:
They realise it pretty well. You simply don't understand it. In normal GA as well, you were segregated based on your total GP. i.e. 2.75-4M gp. It's not matchmaking.

Except they've changed the matchmaking for GAC, so you haven't a bloody clue how 'not solely weighted by GP' matchmaking will work. So, perhaps, you simply don't understand it, either. None of us can understand it, and most of CG probably don't understand the algorithm. Weird.

I do understand as far as they revealed their intent in their announcement. Whether they suceed in their intentions is yet to be revealed. Naturally the entiretity of your GP is considered your overall prowess, thus which division you are qualified for regardless of whether ships are involved or not. This has nothing to do with matchmaking itself.

BillyFly - same story here - long term player with a huge roster of mediocre toons and virtually none of the recent OP ones but a pretty high GP overall.
I rank around the 250 mark in the arena all the time - almost impossible to beat anyone above that level but that's fine, I do what I can.
My first match-up in the new GA Championship? #2 in the arena! Well that's going to be a fascinating test of skill and cunning... Totally pointless. Nice job EA.
My point is not to complain about FTP vs paying. I don't care whether the person I'm playing against has paid for their toons or got them slowly and painfully over years of FTP, but at least if you're going to set up a championship the matchmaking should take into account what kind of toons each player has and pitch them against someone at a similar level. Raw GP counts are totally useless as a measure.

Same situation for me. In the arena I can barely get above 250. In the GA I am matched up against people typically in the top 50. We may have similar gp but clearly that is no way to match people up.

With the divisions we shouldn't have to fight people from other divisions then right?

"LordOfVoids;c-1894118" wrote:
With the divisions we shouldn't have to fight people from other divisions then right?

Thats what I was thinking... and then of course the matchmaking for the first exhibition had me in a group with half/half of two divisions.

Now? The GP swings are crazy. Darth Microtransaction is giving up 1 million GP to his opponent. That should never be allowed to happen.

One of my guildmates is giving up 500k Toon GP to his opponent. This is crazy.

If you’re a long time player and don’t have any of the best toons, you’re not a very good strategist.

By that, I mean your strategy doesn’t provide positive results in any area of the game. You’re not competitive in arena. You can’t do HSR. You’re of little use in TW. And you probably can’t even complete combat in the latter stages of TB.

So what makes you think you should be able to beat someone in GA who has invested their resources more wisely?