"Kyno;c-1741007" wrote:
"Vertigo;c-1740962" wrote:
"Kyno;c-1740630" wrote:
But why shouldnt people with a laser focus on being competitive get an advantage?
People with a laser focus will still have an advantage, the standard g8 7* toon has around 12,000 power. Making the cutoff at like 10k power would hold out mostly gear 7 and below and wouldn't make people who used some characters to learn how to play the game early on get harder matchups because they took more toons to learn how to play the game. But would still cause people with excessively inflated GP rosters to have a disadvantage as those gear 8 toons would still be counted in.
But you want to lessen their advantage because you made different choices. We all had the same opportunity to develop, some had a more competitive focus, due to many factors, but nothing is stopping you now from developing to accomplish your goals.
The bolded is incorrect, as it presumes several things:
1) It presumes that all players started playing at the same time, with the same events presented at the same intervals. That's far from true. Many launch players are carrying roster "bloat" from events and metas that have never even existed for newer players.
2) It also presumes that they are matched up against people that just made different choices. But that's not true either. Since those players can't ungear or unlevel those now useless characters, they can't "undo" that bloat. As such, they have to be
significantly better than the similar GP opponents they face to even have a chance.
I've said it in another thread, but I think it bears repeating here:
If the intention of GA is simply (like the poorly designed, top-heavy, HSith rewards) to handout more and better gear to whales, then fine. F2P players simply have to live with it and consider that when deciding how to rate the game in Apple/Google store and how long to keep playing.
If, however, the purpose of GA is to be a fun and competitive game mode for similarly rostered players, the matchup algorithm is off. And I would be curious as to how many people defending the current model have Revan. But that's a different thread.
