Forum Discussion
- Are divisions determined upon joining GAC or upon Player Lock?
"Pavarotti99;c-1942742" wrote:
Are divisions determined upon joining GAC or upon Player Lock?
Oh the GA is determined by Player Lock but the divisions seemed to be set at start of GAC (Probably hidden, and upon joining it actually shows).- I am barely over 4.5 M, so I am in Div 1. In the last few exhibitions, all of my opponents have been 5+ M. I have placed 8th place every time.
I had assumed all of the 5+ M players would move up to Kyber. Then in future GA, that would be used for pairing, but the levels keep getting reset.
I want to test my teams against against other players that better match my GP.
Will matches get better in the future?
You need more Divisions if this is the kind of matchmaking players are going to be having every single GAC!
Ignorance and greediness....."Vicarious;c-1943800" wrote:
You need more Divisions if this is the kind of matchmaking players are going to be having every single GAC!
Ignorance and greediness.....
I also think MM begs a lot to be desired. However it's not a division problem. There's not enough people at high gps to divide into more divisions, that itself can make the problem worse as MM will have to use a smaller pool. So everything goes back to the algorithm itself."No_Try;c-1943831" wrote:
"Vicarious;c-1943800" wrote:
You need more Divisions if this is the kind of matchmaking players are going to be having every single GAC!
Ignorance and greediness.....
I also think MM begs a lot to be desired. However it's not a division problem. There's not enough people at high gps to divide into more divisions, that itself can make the problem worse as MM will have to use a smaller pool. So everything goes back to the algorithm itself.
It's actually not particularly difficult... If they expanded the scope of the 'matching criteria' to encapsulate more of the roster, then they'd have closer matchups. They don't want to do that, though, so they will give the mega-krakens gigantic advantages to crush everyone that they go against. Why? They'll cry if they don't absolutely dominate their matchups.
Why do you think Malak is just so stupidly designed? Ridiculous health pool, one of the fastest chars in the game, huge damage, health steal (that also one or two hits characters), a bunch of 'free turns with his health steal mechanic if you try to kill him, a dispel mechanic special attack, a passive taunt skill, he gets harder to kill as you work through his health, and OF COURSE he also steals turns from you if you land a crit on him.
The only thing they forgot to put on him is to make his Annihilate-lite an AoE, his dispel AoE(or even better outright buff stealing) and give him damage immunity as part of his thresholds of ridiculousness.
One Character to Rule them all."YetiYeti;c-1948713" wrote:
"No_Try;c-1943831" wrote:
"Vicarious;c-1943800" wrote:
You need more Divisions if this is the kind of matchmaking players are going to be having every single GAC!
Ignorance and greediness.....
I also think MM begs a lot to be desired. However it's not a division problem. There's not enough people at high gps to divide into more divisions, that itself can make the problem worse as MM will have to use a smaller pool. So everything goes back to the algorithm itself.
It's actually not particularly difficult... If they expanded the scope of the 'matching criteria' to encapsulate more of the roster, then they'd have closer matchups. They don't want to do that, though, so they will give the mega-krakens gigantic advantages to crush everyone that they go against. Why? They'll cry if they don't absolutely dominate their matchups.
Why do you think Malak is just so stupidly designed? Ridiculous health pool, one of the fastest chars in the game, huge damage, health steal (that also one or two hits characters), a bunch of 'free turns with his health steal mechanic if you try to kill him, a dispel mechanic special attack, a passive taunt skill, he gets harder to kill as you work through his health, and OF COURSE he also steals turns from you if you land a crit on him.
The only thing they forgot to put on him is to make his Annihilate-lite an AoE, his dispel AoE(or even better outright buff stealing) and give him damage immunity as part of his thresholds of ridiculousness.
One Character to Rule them all.
Hmm? This has nothing to do with what I wrote or the idea it's a follow up to.- 8 territories stacked in a row, like a survivor series. You have to beat the previous team before the next one is revealed.
"FartBoss;c-1949250" wrote:
GAC is so much better at lower GP I’m only 1.59m GP (on the verge of division 6 but I’m tanking til it starts to stay in division 7) I hit kyber in the exhibition and I’ve added a traya team since then... and all I see is a bunch of complaints from higher GP players.... sucks to be you guys..... that’s all I was pointing out...
This is probably true. Part of the problem is g13 isn't accurately reflected in terms of GP compared to it's actual massive boost in stats. This round we have one guy with 12 g13 characters....and another with zero. That should be fun for the with zero. Oh, and they guy with no g13 also doesn't have DReven (the rest of us all have DR and Malak to boot). On the plus side he does have g12 Ewoks, so those should be very helpful against DR/Malak teams....lololol. The dude doesn't even have g12 Nightsisters - no wait, 1 - Vent. His MT and Daka are g8 though.
Poor guy."Nikoms565;c-1949396" wrote:
This is probably true. Part of the problem is g13 isn't accurately reflected in terms of GP compared to it's actual massive boost in stats.
Yep, I would expect some kind of weighting applied to premium characters. So if you have a DR or Malak, why aren't they worth 3x GP value for match making? They're epic characters that make a huge difference. Then some like CLS or JTR get 2x etc. Surely there is some research that shows the difference key characters make, so they should be weighted more, else again I'd ask for a flat map so I'm not forced to break through a DR/Malak team to get half a map.
Thankfully we're only supposed fight within our division this time at least, so points should be more comparable. I see that as a step forward.
