Grand Arena HUGE Matchmaking mistake

Rookie mistakes with no foresight .
Best fix would be to see the person that signs off "ready for gameplay" works fulltime in forum damage control for 6 months to get the feel of the community.

The combination of ship and character gp is obviosly a bad matchmaking mechanism.
But i think, what i still prefer, to use charakter gp only is also poor. Because gp dont reflect the real worth of a toon and need a lot rework. Some strong leaders like traya or revan.. are worth 4 times their gp, cause they can easily beat strong teams without such leader. On other hands there are old weak toons nearly worthless because of the overpowered toons. They are overrated in gp actually.
Alot of problems, no solution planned/in sight :-(

GP only if what is available to use is 100% irrefutably more fair than combining GP NOBODY can use to the determining value. 100%

An easy fix is to use Character GP by itself when ships isnt involved and then use both when both are to be used in a match up. Yes?

The developers needed an easy way to do matchmaking in grand arena. Galactic power is something the system can quickly check and provides mostly balanced matches. It's not intended to be completely fair, since they clearly encourage spending to gain advantage. Someone with an arena Revan team is going to do exceptionally well regardless of the rest of their power. And there are going to be some players who invest more heavily into characters, some who invest heavily into ships, and some who are more balanced. The matching format is set in GA, and the battle format changes to shake things up.

My guess is the real reason most are complaining is because you got matched with someone who outclasses you and who you doubt you can win against. That is likely to happen sometimes unless you're a regular spender who typically stays at the top of your arena rankings. But that's just part of the game. By looking at the teams you face and examining what works and does not work in your attacks and defenses, you'll know what to focus on to improve. And when you get matched with someone you can't beat, you can just shrug and admit that happens from time to time as well.

I just got matched with a player, we both have the same overall GP. He has 200k more character GP than me with 30 zetas and 26 G12 toons vs my 12 zetas and 12 G12 toons. He has zWampa, zHoda and JTR (I have my JTR now but only got her after this GA started). I have 200k more ship GP than him and Millenium Falcon unlocked at 5* but it’s irrelevant because this 3v3 only matches us with characters and not a single ship territory. Who do you think did a full clear first try and who barely got half territories down? Either remove ship GP when calculating char Vs char GA’s only or it’s going to continue being skewed like this. And this is just the beginning of fixing the matchmaking. We were told this would be a true test of skill not an overpower clown fiesta.

we’ve made enough noise about this, but i doubt they will do anything about it. not even a “we hear you” or even a subpar half crack answer like “not fixing, working as intended”

Matching by GP is fair, period. I invest heavily in fleet and it sucks that fleet GP is factored in when there is no fleet, but oh well.

I have never won an overall GA, that is always given to people in my grouping that have Revan. However, I have finished in the 2 to 4 bracket all but one time.

You cannot seriously expect all people with similar squads to battle each other. People who win against similar GP opponents usually do because they have focused their squad development. In no way should people who strategize have a tougher opponent than those who didn't.

"Rath_Tarr;c-1763492" wrote:


Ultimately though, there will need to be some measure of player skill factored into matchmaking. The most obvious one being win-loss ratio. Players with better ratio get matched with tougher opponents. Ones with poorer ratios get matched with weaker opponents.

Otherwise, no matter what you do there are going to be players who get curb-stomped and others who have easy wins.

Why? Don't more skillfull players deserve to win more often?
The only way i would prefer to play vs better opponents systematically because i keep winning is if that also comes with better rewards.
Equality of outcome in a competative game mode is not desirable imo. "rigging" the system so that everyone has roughly the same win-loss ratio seems silly to me. What's the point in wanting to win if that inevitably leads to eventually losing more often?
I'd call that fixing one problem by creating a different problem. A less desirable problem imo.

I made the mistake of leveling up every ship in my fleet cause I had the resources and thought I might be able to use 3rd string or 4h string fleets in TWs. Until they add a fleet raid where we need to use multiple teams, this strategy is not paying off. It is what it is, I waisted resources and I can get over that, but it would be nice to not get penalized in non-fleet GA by facing all teams with 200k to 500k more character GP than I have when fleets are not part of the playing field.

My typical opponents in my bracket have similar zeta counts but 20-30 more characters in the gear 11 and 12 range. I still pull off some wins, but I am clearly playing from a disadvantage in every match up that doesn't use fleets. On the other hand, when we do get to use fleets, I hold on defense 3 times and am able to take my opponents' fleet out in 1 try. So there is clearly a reason to have strong fleets for some GAs, they should just make the matchmaking systems account for if fleets are in use or not, so there isn't such a disadvantage for investing