Grand Arena Matchups
When players received GP to give a value to their inventory strength, some players, like me, maxed out all of their characters' levels, gear levels, and mods. The increased GP gave players better rew...
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"EgoSlayer;c-1864527" wrote:"Waqui;c-1864516" wrote:"EgoSlayer;c-1864379" wrote:
There is a difference between not performing optimally, and being punished for spending resources. GA is the latter. Until the introduction of GA there is *no* game mode where expanding your roster and spending resources penalized you.
Fluff could also give you a harder opponent in TW just like it does in GA. It's not a new thing. It's amazing how some players appear surprised by this effect.
The developers intention is that players should *never* be penalized for spending resources to improve your characters.
It seems like you misinterpreted the announcements regarding the paper zombie situation. That announcement said, that a character should always become stronger / more usefull, when you spend ressources on it. That's not the same thing as what you claim.
Again - a fundamental difference between not performing optimally and an actual penalty for having GP. 10 8K GP characters does not in any way compete with a 5 character 80K team in GA - yet GA thinks they are the same.
GA matches by GP. GA doesn't match players to create even matches/battles. GA doesn't 'think' it's the same.
TW "Fluff" nets higher rewards and is distributed across 25-50 rosters and is a game mode where everyone on average only needs 8-10 teams total so the majority of every TW player's roster is "fluff" because it's never needed. GA players often need that many just for defense from a single roster, and then likewise matching number for attacking. It's not even remotely the same.
Yet, fluff still has the same effect on match-making contrary to your claims. And once you cross the threshold for the highest rewards tier, there's no positive effect. If you fluffed up you roster to reach a higher reward tier, you always knew, that one day that fluff would loose its positive effect.
But it sounds like they are finally changing it because GP is a poor measure for matchmaking. And they know it, so its getting addressed.
The changes will be introduced along with the introduction of GA championshipswhich will also introduced tiered rewards. It's just the way it should be. If we would all still fight for the exact same rewards, those announced changes to match-making would be unfair. With rewards tiers I believe it's fair enough.
They knew it in TW as well, because they added other criteria to the TW matchmaking that included some limited roster comparisons as part of the matching shortly after it's release that was using GP only.
Previously there could be rather large differences in active GP in TW matches. They changed the match-making algorithm (last fall, IIRC) to create more even matches GP-wise.
