"NoodleheadJones;c-1885072" wrote:
"Pentagon;c-1884067" wrote:
CG have responded in a fair way.
If you increase your GP, you will be facing other powerful accounts with all the toys.
If you have low GP you will face other players with less toys.
This argument is so completely wrong, it is very depressing. I have high GP because all of my toons are modded, usually at least GVII or GVIII, leveled to 85, with abilities at 7. Lobot. Not a GA toon. JKG. Not a GA toon. Tusken Raider. Not a GA toon etc. These are broken toys. Sandbaggers keep GP low by not leveling/gearing these characters or by hitting a minimum power level so they are counted but skew their average.
GP IS A BRAIN-DEAD WAY TO COMPARE ROSTERS. You could do anything slightly more complicated - weigh meta toons more highly, weigh higher gear levels more highly, weigh meta toon speed deltas (for a really fair match), weigh zeta'd toons more highly - and come up with a better matching metric. "Oh, but GP takes those into account!" - nope, not enough for a comparable competitive metric.
That's exactly the intention with new matchmaking system, whether it'll achieve it somewhat or really fall short of it is another question though. Read the new announcement posts?
