Territory Wars Matchmaking Manipulation
Why do you allow guilds to be matched based solely on the registered players for a Territory War. A select few of the so called bigger guilds are manipulating the system to their own advantage by rot...
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"Moggey;c-1418998" wrote:"leef;c-1418986" wrote:
I think you guys are too focussed on GP manipulation when in fact the reason you lost was because it was a mismatch. 124m vs 139m active GP simply isn't a fair match. You probably would have lost to a 50 player guild with 139m GP aswell.
I honestly wouldn’t mind losing to a 50 team guild at 139m. That’s the bracket we are in, and we rightly accept that those are the guilds we may face. While those guilds will have higher GPs, our player base will be of a roughly similar level, accepted that they will be slightly ahead of us man for man. We have not long been in the 120-139m bracket so we expect it to be tough, and realise we will be near the bottom of the scale in this bracket.
I just don’t expect teams from the bracket above to drop down on a regular basis. Once your guild is in the 140-160m gp bracket it’s virtually all mega whales, and the top elite guilds in the game.
Didn't that other poster already confirm that matchmaking isn't based on brackets though? So theoretically you should also have a chance at facing a 119m GP guild. I'm still not entirely sure if that's true though.
I get that it sucks, but normally you just shouldn't be facing a guild with 14m active GP more. You probably would have stood a chance vs a 46 member guild with ~124m GP, that's why i think you're focussing too much on GP manipulation when instead you should be focussing on why on earth you're facing a guild with that much more active GP.
I'm not a game designer, but fixing the GP manipulation issue seems far and far more complicated than just fixing the mismatch issue.
Having a truly fair matchmaking system that can't be manipulated by guilds is as good as impossible. Take my guild for exampe, we don't have any whales, but we often do face guilds that do. The enemy guild's top 2 guys usually have more g12 characters than our entire top10 combined. Simply put, the GP distribution in my guild isn't exactly favourable for TW. We're way to casual to even try to fix that problem, but would that be considered GP manipulation? Or just good guild management? Maybe matchmaking should take the amount of g11/12 toons into consideration? Anyway, you get where i'm going with this.
That said, intentionally benching players in order to get easier match ups in TW is (imo) a lame strategy.
