"Drathuk916;c-2391577" wrote:
My logic is division 5 gets filled with joiners who are inactive, bad players, and some though not all of the recently promoted from the lower league who have less gp.
Ahhhhhhhhh ok, I'm seeing your logic. Hmmmmmmmmm interesting.
I don't think it works however.
Firstly, what is the difference between the very best and the very worst player of say..........4 million GP?
Player A follows a strict and super successful farming guide, learns and farms mods well and strictly doesn't touch any toon that isn't necessary or extremely potent in GAC.
Player B plays as much, but doesn't understand or follow any guidelines. Doesn't even try the journey guides (and these players do exist). Doesn't even put mods on their toons.
I would say the GAC power difference between the 2 is what.......Player A has 3 times the GAC power of player B? Even though they're at the same GP. Actually the power level is possibly infinite as a GAC match up would quite likely be a clean sweep in favour of player A.
This is the most extreme difference of 2 players of the same GP of course. However, it's a case.
So in your scenario what happens to the player Bs? They basically are forced to play, players of their own ability (ok), players much better than them that are coming up (no ok), and inactive players (not ok for anybody). I have no idea what the percentages of each would be, but 2/3rds of the group types wouldn't give them a good match up. Where as dropping to a lower league and playing average players of a lower GP does give them a better match up. Also bear in mind the lower the account drops, the less of their GP they can use. Therefore the less GP has an influence on the match up.
Lastly, if you can't drop out of a league due being of a certain GP. What happens to the league player numbers balance? GAC is actually shrinking in size, so the reality is nobody would be able to go up in league. Or eventually the top leagues would be massively top heavy.
"Drathuk916;c-2391577" wrote:
but I would suspect inactive joiners to be a large portion of each d5.
Anybody that gets drawn vs a player that is inactive shouldn't happen. Whether that's our 'Player B' or a new player entering the league. This is screwing over 'Player B'. They deserve a proper match up just like anybody. We need...........CG need to find a way to deal with the inactive that doesn't affect any actives. I really feel you do this, they system is going to be much much smoother.
"Drathuk916;c-2391577" wrote:
Though even if I’m completely wrong this subset of players is more than made up for by average and some above average players no longer having to face accounts with greater than a 2 million advantage.
But the thing is we see match ups of players with 4.........5 million disadvantages winning. Possibly it's not pretty, using underman and roster stretching tactics. However, they're happening all the time. Is it as fun as an even GP match up though? I don't think so, but winning is these situations is a big buzz. Just look at Ahnaldt101's F2P account. He's winning 50% of his match ups vs rosters twice the size.
Fairness of match up, the GP argument really doesn't stand (if the 2 players that meet are equally active). Whether it's as fun to play as a big GP underdog..............well that's another point. I'd rather that though, than to go back to GP being any sort of factor in match making at all.