Grand Arena matching leaves me flabbergasted
Speaking for myself …currently managed to make it to Bronzium 2. And in the final round I’m matched up with a player that has 5 gl at relic 8, 4 or 5 qonquest characters……how in the hell did this guy...
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Same here.. The skill rating idea is flawed. If they lost due to not participating in a round, they didn't lose based on skill. An easy way to clean this up is to penalize those who miss a round (or all rounds) by not allowing them in the next GA. That would force those with high GP to play the match or just sit out. You score a zero ( no attempts) , you sit out the next one. The result of this would remove high GP players in lower tiers. They would be forced to move up to a tier that they belong. Those with lower GP would compete against lower GP that are closer in skill. That would increase the skill and reduce lopsided matches. Those of you who say "its better than it was, please stop covering for CG". This is not a good match making experience.
I think penalty for zero participation across matches should be loss of daily crystals related to your placement, whilst no deduction on SR to prevent sandbagging. To get the win / loss reward you should still get banners still too so those who participate and lose, losing SR in the process, are not worst off than inactive players. End of season PO should have a minimum activity of at least 1 match from each sign up. Once they are active and participating then daily crystal payout continues and they continue from the same division they were at before the period of inactivity. Preventing a drop to lower tiers full of newer lower GP players but preventing rewarding inactivity. This way if you’re busy in RL it just impacts rewards for a short while and not placement. Most importantly the toxic players I know who purposefully drop to Bronzium through long periods of inactivity, with 4/5 GLs and 9-10M roster for an easy win-streak later (they have seriously bragged to me about winning 30+ when all they need to do is block with GLs and attack once) can not exploit the SR MM. This does not payoff for Crystal income in my calculation but feeds some sense of “skill” for them at the expense of experience of newer and players. I am aware some players fall through not having time or interest but what bothers me most is the intentional inactivity.
