Toward Better Matchmaking
(Long post, got a bit carried away since I’ve worked with matchmaking systems in my day job. Posting here in the hope that the devs at least give it some consideration. Hopefully other players find th...
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"KrombopulosMichael;c-1693094" wrote:
Which brings up another issue: character quality. GP undervalues characters that are still viable at lower stars and/or gear, like Traya, Nest, Nihilus, etc. who have strong mechanics. Just focusing on the top X characters in terms of GP would miss that. You would probably want something like a weighted average of the X strongest characters' GP as well as the player's total GP as two separate components. Better yet, some kind of "character strength index" that accounts for the strength of certain mechanics, powerful leader abilities, etc. but that's probably not be feasible.
No, you're onto something. There are some character traits that should weight in. For instance, journey-like, legendary or raid reward characters are more impactful than your average marquee character, that could easily be taken into account. Then there's the prevalence in arena in correlation to the rank, data could be extrapolated here to give weight to the most efficient characters. I'm confident the people at CG will find something. We are not happy with the TW algorithm and CG just said they are aware of that. They have the TW experience to build something good. I'm an optimistic guy, I'm confident people can build upon their previous failure and I'm sure CG will.
