Why is there matchmaking only by total GP, despite that there is no Ship territories In current arena? I have more than - 300k difference with my enemy by Characters GP. how do i suppose to win? Where is the smart matchmaking?

Straight GP is like saying to a monkey and a fish. We are going to match you up based on age. Forba swimming contest.Its different for TW because you have a mixture of TW focused players and TB focused players in the guild.In 1 v 1. You dont have the mix.I have 3.6 million GP... But 1.5 million is TB bloat. I have every toon lvl 60 nodded and 4 or 5 geared. Every GA oponent ive faced has had double the gear 12 and double the zetas as me. GA and TW are dominated by teams that are not TB focused. 30 lions (tw) will beat 300 sheep (TB) everytime. Heres the fix. Preview phase. Select (fake number) 30 toons that you wish to take into battle. End of preview phase, you get matched up with equal GP... To the 30 you selected. Not your entire roster (I'm 3.6 m GP... But 1.5 is bloat for TB).Fight and now its fair.

"IDinDooNuffin;c-1729644" wrote:Straight GP is like saying to a monkey and a fish. We are going to match you up based on age. Forba swimming contest.Its different for TW because you have a mixture of TW focused players and TB focused players in the guild.In 1 v 1. You dont have the mix.But players with lot of fluff GP (TB focused players as you call them) still may give their guild a disadvantage in TW. They just don't realise it until they are struck by it personally in GA. Instead of complaining, they should just enjoy their advantage in TB.

I am mostly F2P and have been playing for years and the whole time I was leveling and gearing everything, especially when TB came around. My GP is 3.98 million. I do not have Revan or Traya or a usable Bastilla Shan. I am pretty much guaranteed to get matched up against people who do, so I am lucky if I can get a single win in GA. If they put a good Revan squad on Defense, I am SOL. I can run my entire roster against the one team and not make a dent. So.. GA is not enjoyable and barely worth the effort to get last place rewards. I'm close to the point where I'm going to join and not bother setting defense and just collect the rewards at the end because taking the time to set defenses has rarely resulted in a better than last place payout unless someone else is coasting through it, but I won't do that because I understand it negative affects the opponents...

I dont understand the complaints. I took over a year off and had to rebuild my standings in everything. I can never reach top 50 in fleet because that's for people who can afford to gear and zeta for only fleet which is a very very small part of the game. I don't fill the forums with complaints tho, because I chose how to rebuild my account. I'm in a Nov 2015 shard and have made my way back to rank 1 arena and top 100-150 fleet. Dont look at the GA as a "oh woe is me", instead look at it as a challenge and a way to direct your future gear and farming choices. Or if you dont want to change, don't complain about poor GA performance

"Daishi;c-1801549" wrote:No, they just removed fleet GP from calculations when fleets arent being used. People are still complaining about GP matchmaking because they made different choices and GA makes each of us face our choices and see how they compete.IMO the **** idea is the pick what toons you want to include in your GA GP calculation. Or the take only the top 50% of your GP, etc etc etc. Stupid ideas made by people who want the game to pander to them, instead of facing their choices and trying to improve.too complicated and requires more server time, its OK for now

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LiathSW
7 years ago
"IDinDooNuffin;c-1729644" wrote:

Its different for TW because you have a mixture of TW focused players and TB focused players in the guild.

In 1 v 1. You dont have the mix.

There are TW focused guilds where all 50 members have that sort of roster. Sometimes your mixed guild will meet those focused guilds, and when you do, you will probably lose. It really isn’t very different.
tjdimartino
6 years ago
Agree with this post. GA seriously disadvantages players with high GP. Shouldn’t these be the players that should have an advantage not be disadvantaged??? I get frustrated thinking of all the zetas going to lower GP players who have much easier GAs. Not fair.
Pengin83
6 years ago
But they made an announcement that they wanted to change matchmaking to remove ships from non-ship GAs. Shouldn’t that make you content? The announcement I mean since the change still hasn’t been implemented.

I suffer the same problem and it’s getting really annoying. Last GA, everyone had 300-400k squad GP on me. It was the first time I chose to not even attack 1 opponent. He ran over my defense and still set a strong defense. I didn’t have enough toons to overcome that so why bother?

It’s only slightly better when ships are included in GA because the point system isn’t balanced either. But that’s a discussion for another thread.
MasterShake2129
6 years ago
I seem to recall CG saying that grand arenas that did not have a fleet section would ignore fleet GP for the match up, is this still going to happen? Because it is not at the moment. Some clarification would be nice
Rath_Tarr0
6 years ago
"HellbenT;c-1797831" wrote:
I am mostly F2P and have been playing for years and the whole time I was leveling and gearing everything, especially when TB came around. My GP is 3.98 million. I do not have Revan or Traya or a usable Bastilla Shan.

I understand not having Traya - not everyone is in a HSith-capable guild. (I'm not either)

I can even kinda understand why you might not have Revan yet, though with 3.8 mill GP you ought to be well on your way to unlocking him next time around.

But how do you not have Bastilia powered-up?!? Jedi teams are TB/TW/GA standard fodder and Bastilia is the best leader aside from Revan and not hard to farm.
Pengin83
6 years ago
My current opponent set his 4 best teams as his front line defense. If he walks over my defense, I’m done with GA. I’m tired of counting ship GP in the calculation.
EbAKA_PA3PbIBAK
6 years ago
Classic CG... Where is ONLY fleet GA huh? >:)
They said about normal MM, but...
Badalex48
6 years ago
"MasterShake2129;c-1794292" wrote:
I seem to recall CG saying that grand arenas that did not have a fleet section would ignore fleet GP for the match up, is this still going to happen? Because it is not at the moment. Some clarification would be nice

That is their plan, but they have not implemented it yet. Hopefully they implement it in the QOL update that is coming soon.
Nikoms565
6 years ago
I need to brush up on my Russian.
EbAKA_PA3PbIBAK
6 years ago
"Daishi;c-1799910" wrote:
I dont understand the complaints.

But EA understood and rebalnced MM. HA-HA