Grand Arena HUGE Matchmaking mistake
When you match players based on combined ship and character GP but only let them use characters, you get big mismatches with players heavily invested in fleet. This is such a massive and obvious resul...
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As I stated, the fact that I was able to overcome my GP handicap does not make the system fair or balanced.
Matchmaking by total GP for all squad or all fleet events is the most obvious issue and should be the easiest to resolve. They already calculate the breakdown for other uses and it's a single input parameter to the matchmaking process which has the same type and scale whether you use fleet, squad or combined.
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.
Matchmaking by total GP for all squad or all fleet events is the most obvious issue and should be the easiest to resolve. They already calculate the breakdown for other uses and it's a single input parameter to the matchmaking process which has the same type and scale whether you use fleet, squad or combined.
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.
