Grand Arena matchmaking

How do you want them to do matchmaking going forward? What criteria do you expect them to use?

I'm totally free to play and place top 5 when I'm not busy. My opponent this GA is top 500 with awful teams. We've spent our resources differently is all, but it is fair all the same.

Your message reads like you expect them to individually checks rosters.

Well they could use 2 parameters in the algo instead of just GP, GP probably is best, then it could try to also match up Ship and Arena ranks as close as possible.

Everyone in my group has very close GP so happy it went that far given past complaints

love the whining. how can a collector even dream to win vs a pvp oriented account i do not know. we all start at the same level its just that people make different resource investment decisions. remember, GA is the ultimate account vs account testing ground.

Gear is a fair point, but I don't think arena ranks are a useful metric. I'm on relatively new arena shards, where it's still easy to break into top ranks. My current GA opponent is on an older shard. He ranks around 500 in squad and 200 in fleet, but he has 8 zeta characters compared to my 3. And unlike me, he also has Revan, GMY and CLS. zRevan and zCLS, that is.

He looks like he might be F2P whereas I'm a small dolphin (more of a porpoise really), but he has more than 7 months of playtime on me according to swgoh.gg. There are so many different factors at play that I can see why CG simply uses GP for matchmaking. And as long as fleet is included the way it is now, I'm okay with that. If I can win just one round of out of three, like I did last time, I'm happy.

Id like it to always give me someone I can best. Please and thanks

it has nothing to do with p2p vs f2p. Bringing that up is only detrimental to the discussion imo.

"Roopehunter;c-1774231" wrote:
This game has nothing to do with skills. The sooner you accept it the better.

troll?

Honestly, does anyone here believe that one single number is able to compare the REAL strength of players, especially if much things valued equal even if they are not?

If we would have only five toons perhaps the GP would allow us to match it together.

Actually the game has hundreds of toons and ships, and their abilities are also different but the GP calculates it like all are equal. A level 8 skill of CLS increases your GP by the same value a level 8 CUP skill does. Makes it sense? Only if EVERYBODY would have the exact same toons.
More gear leads to a similiar situation and so on.

And if this isn't enough of GP-"diversity" the mods come around. Every mod is different, but all mods are calculated into GP like they would be equal. It doesn't count what data they increase, it's only about level and stars.

So while it is out of the question to set specific values for random-generated things like mods, it would be a huge step into a more fair matchmaking if CG could give at least for every single skill and gear, the toons and ships have, a unique GP-value instead this generic one.

I know this would be a huge amount of work to revaluate it, but they have to do it just once to repair this "old" mistake. Then every new toon could have it's own unique skill/gear-values for GP by release.