"leef;c-2012956" wrote:
"Woodroward;c-2012917" wrote:
"number of squads allowed" is a qualifier for "deployed"
I am basing my statement on the qualifying statement, which modifies the meaning of the main statement in this instance without changing the meaning of any individual word.
The way it is phrased it more than slightly infers that the only deployed units it cares about are the ones that count towards your allowed number of squads. Not that all deployed units are defense, just that the only ones it measures are.
It is very clearly written that way.
It all hinges around the phrase "allowed number of squads". There is no allowed number of squads on offense, so saying matchmaking includes offense is pure speculation (fact, not opinion).
That's all fine and dandy, but matchmaking is based on the maximum power of the units a player is allowed to use, which in term is based on the number of squads allowed to be deployed in this event.
So saying matchmaking doesn't include offense is also pure speculation as well (fact, not opinion).
Maybe "the units a player is allowed to use" and "the number of squads allowed to be deployed in this event" are the same thing, but you can't be 100% sure of that and imo it doesn't seem to be the case based on the wording for the reason i gave earlier.
For the record, i agree that it's speculation, but it's speculation either way. It's also obviously based on def slots in one way or another because they scale allong with total GP.
To say it doesn't include offense is speculation I suppose (never said it wasn't), but think about the phrase allowed number of squads.
Now if we want to try to apply that to offense how can we do so? There is no set number of allowed squads to begin with. So let's try minimum allowed... Well that's 0. We could try maximum allowed... well that's basically your whole roster, which they assured us it no longer uses.
The only LOGICAL conclusion I can reach is that it doesn't count offense since every possible application of the phrase "allowed number of squads" doesn't apply to offense.
So it's not speculation to say that the description clearly infers that offense is not taken into consideration. To say that it does is indeed speculation since the only source of how it is conducted that we have heavily implies the opposite.
The 2 phrases are clearly linked and not separate, they are part of the same sentence and even the same clause. The phrase "maximum power of units allowed based on the number of squads allowed to be deployed" is one phrase. It's not a separate concept, there's no debate about that, and that isn't speculation either. That's what based on clearly states: they are linked. It doesn't imply it, it clearly states it.
And the only thing I said was fact was that there is literally 0 support for matchmaking taking offense into account.
But this:
"leef;c-2012836" wrote:
You can't reach that conclusion without also concluding "deployed" as well as "the units a player is allowed to use" means placed on defense.
Makes no sense whatsoever. Nothing about counting the number of squads allowed which is only on defense makes the word deployed all about defense. I assume this is the wording you "explained". Please explain in more detail because I can not follow this logic. I can't even start to follow this logic.
