Forum Discussion
"No_Try;c-1892218" wrote:
Everything hinges on the new matchmaking. People will start speaking different tunes starting from tomorrow if CG manages to meet their intention in the matchmaking announcement.
Disagree, because people who lose will always complain about the matchmaking, and 50% of people will lose."TVF;c-1892246" wrote:
"No_Try;c-1892218" wrote:
Everything hinges on the new matchmaking. People will start speaking different tunes starting from tomorrow if CG manages to meet their intention in the matchmaking announcement.
Disagree, because people who lose will always complain about the matchmaking, and 50% of people will lose.
Didn't say they will like the new system, just that their assumed tactics will have to reshape."BobcatSkywalker;c-1891994" wrote:
"NicWester;c-1891881" wrote:
"leef;c-1885565" wrote:
How though? how would they match us more closely than by just using GP while also dividing us into divisions based on GP.
I don't see it working as well as one might think it would work.
Regardless, matchmaking is always going to suck no matter how much it's tweaked. It will benefit some more than others.
If instead of looking at the GP of every character on your roster and instead only looking at the GP of the highest 20, 30, 40 (however many you want to go) you can match wide and skinny rosters better.
I posted in the Grand Arena subforum once showing how if you looked at pure GP, every opponent I was matched against was within 1% of mine. But if you looked at the top however many I counted (I don't remember off the top of my head what number I used, but I remember that it was the number of squads needed on defense times two, since you needed at least that many on offense.) our GPs were as wide as 10%.
Looking only at the top so-and-so many characters prevents wide rosters from being punished for their fat, and prevents skinny rosters from benefitting the lean-ness of their lowest characters.
It's probably not perfect. But it would improve things all the same. At the very, very least it would prevent situations where I saw folks who had characters with 330+ shards unactivated.
Really? you can't see how many shards someone else has unless they screen shot their own collection and send it to you.
Really? Well now you've got me doubting myself, but I'm pretty sure I saw it. This isn't a "My uncle works at Nintendo" situation, though, I promise :P My memory is telling me I saw shard counts, but memory isn't reliable and I could very easily be wrong. But if I'm wrong it's not intentionally-so :)- How does your match-ups look? It's extremely close for me, close to my detriment as previous matchmaking was giving me rather easy opponents even though I'm an extreme fluff-er (lol can't even say it.
- How's this possible? Thought only the ship feat was awarding it.
- Can anyone help me? I don't know if I'm being an idiot but BEFORE the lock for GAC, I unlocked a ship so my GP went from 2,490,000 - 2,510,000, thus I was expecting to move into Division 4. I've just looked at my 7 opponents and all are in Division 4 yet mine still says I'm in Division 5. Is this as designed? Not sure how much of a disadvantage I'm at when it comes to rewards now.
I am trying to keep up with the notes on this, so it might just be because it's excluding ship GP in division making, but looking at my opponents I don't think that adds up either.
Thanks in advance if anyone either knows what is going on or can direct me to someone who can answer/help! - Someone please explain the criteria matchmaking is using and is it working properly? Also is everyone starting out in the carbonite league due to this being the exhibition for GAC? GAC shows I'm in division 2 with a GP of 3.8 million and my arena rank is 46 and ships is 225. When I look at my opponents 6 of which have a GP 4.05 million and the other is listed at 3.9 million. Preying I can get a top 4 finish.
"Roahn;c-1892691" wrote:
Someone please explain the criteria matchmaking is using and is it working properly? Also is everyone starting out in the carbonite league due to this being the exhibition for GAC? GAC shows I'm in division 2 with a GP of 3.8 million and my arena rank is 46 and ships is 225. When I look at my opponents 6 of which have a GP 4.05 million and the other is listed at 3.9 million. Preying I can get a top 4 finish.
I doubt anyone can say for sure, but here's the opinionated lead. You are getting matched on character gp first, ships are discluded as they aren't getting played. This explains the division breaches. Then you get matched by various parameters. Coming from my own matchmaking the gear distribution, zetas and even mods plays into it. But can only be more certain once I see many more matchups in detail ("I got matched with x amount of g12s while I have y" and "I don't have malak, my opponent does" is worthless)"No_Try;c-1892627" wrote:
How does your match-ups look? It's extremely close for me, close to my detriment as previous matchmaking was giving me rather easy opponents even though I'm an extreme fluff-er (lol can't even say it.
It looks pretty much like it used to be in regular GAs. A few really easy, a couple of even opponents and 1-2 really challenging/hard.
This is some BS matchmaking. Opponent is 200k gp stronger and more than double my g12, and it seems as though I'll have to set 6 teams instead of 5. 'Lean' accounts are trash.
