Looking into issue with Grand Arena Championship

"YaeVizsla;c-1893764" wrote:

"Darth_DeVito;c-1893737" wrote:
@CG_Erik Since you're canceling this GA, you need to reset the championship score. Without punishing people for completing the fleet battles ahead of time since some of us spent crystals to do so. The next GA needs to have better matchmaking within a single division, not across different divisions like this time, as well as autodeploy for all missing defense teams (even when people set one defense squad manually). Anything else royally messes up our championship scores.

Championship score does not carry over from championship to championship.

As to your point on matchmaking? Making divisions a hard line across which the matchmaking system cannot cross makes it a more gameable system that rewards maintaining your GP just below a cutoff line in order to farm more vulnerable opponents and cut off stronger opponents, while punishing people just above that same line by limiting them to harder opponents. It introduces a wrestling style incentive for spitting in a cup all day before weigh-ins.

Making it a soft line which the matchmaking algorithm can match across reduces the degree to which the system can be gamed in that way. Not eliminate, no, but definitely reduce.

I don't think you fully grasp the problem here. Both divisions and individual GA matchmaking are based on GP. Both can be gamed by altering one's GP. Matching players across different divisions does not prevent this. It also won't happen in fleet GA. This only affects squad GA because of the squad GP-based matchmaking. GP gaming by de-modding characters doesn't factor into this issue.