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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"Globuhl;c-1693232" wrote:"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.
I'm not as optimistic as you.
Synergies also play into how much a toon is worthy at any given moment and that's bound to change as well. There are too many moving parts to this and I bet they would want to go with something they can stand behind, namely GP. Instead of inventing a 2nd scoring method, they should revamp how GP is calculated, but I doubt that will happen either.
Besides the hardship, mainly because I don't see CG admitting how unequal the toons are created from getgo (even within their release brackets:leg,marquee,journey,raid reward). GP currently assumes that's not the case and only zetas bump the score significantly in between toons (of same gear, rarity and mods)
At the end of the day what I see happening with GA is the major factor determining the outcome will be chance who you get grouped with. How you play it (assuming you are not throwing the towel and try to be competetive) will be secondary to the initial pull.
