Territory War Matchmaker
Hi folks, We are aware that some Guilds are battling in Territory Wars against higher GP Guilds with a deeper roster and can feel impossible to beat. Currently, we don’t see any egregious issues in...
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"HJoci30;c-1651686" wrote:
We only won 1 TW in 4 months. We have 124 mill. gp. In the 4 months we never got a weaker opponent, nowdays we face full traya walls. We cant even do heroic sith, we need the JTR event to do it. After next JTR we will have 42 JTR teams. No we have only 25.
I guess this anecdote discounts the possibility that the matchmaker takes win-loss record into account. It's a sad state of affairs.
I sympathize with the devs, though. Guild pairing is a complex, N-dimensional problem. It requires a sophisticated solver to produce matchups that seem "fair." This should have been in development since before beta testing was completed.
The problem just gets harder to solve when new meta-defining characters are introduced, unless you have a very smart, easily adjusted, adaptive algorithm. Even then, tuning the system would be a daunting task, and keeping it tuned for all the marquees would feel almost futile.
